President Obama has on multiple occasions declared, self righteously in my view, that the war is over. In October 2011; "We've ended the war in Iraq," Obama said at a June 25, 2012; and in May 2013 he declared the global war on terror is over.
Despite these and other similar declarations, combat has not ceased, thus displaying Obama's fundamental ignorance of national security and warfare.
It is no secret that Obama has approved continued combat missions and strikes by manned and unmanned aircraft, all the while uttering false claims that the war is over.
Combat manned and unmanned strikes are acts of war, pure and simple. The definition of war is not exclusively linked to an infantryman holding a rifle and engaging the enemy. Let us be absolutely clear about this point. Aerial bombardment is war, pure and simple.
Tell the English they were not at war during World War II, as Germany used manned aircraft and missiles to bomb their cities. There were no German troops attacking London during the Blitz. It was war from the air.
So President Obama simultaneously declares he ended the war in Iraq, while he authorizes and even brags that military forces (manned and unmanned aircraft) are striking targets there and elsewhere. His spokespersons have even lauded the recent approval by Turkey to use their facilities to continue this warfare.
Such gross ignorance of national security and warfare can be no clearer than that demonstrated by his false claims.
When the first pilot flying one of these combat missions is killed or captured, when the first soldier or Marine is killed or captured in Iraq, what will Obama claim? Will he deny to the family of the fallen or captured that their husband, son, brother was at war? If one of our military is captured, will Obama declare he/she is not a Prisoner of War (POW)?
His ignorance would be laughable if the subject were not so deadly serious.
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