By John Lillpop ——Bio and Archives--November 14, 2015
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In an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC's Good Morning America that was broadcasted Friday, President Obama said ISIS has been "contained." "I don't think they're gaining strength," Obama said of ISIS. "What is true, from the start our goal has been first to contain and we have contained them. They have not gained ground in Iraq and in Syria they'll come in, they'll leave. But you don't see this systemic march by ISIL across the terrain." "What we have not yet been able to do is to completely decapitate their command and control structures. We've made some progress in trying to reduce the flow of foreign fighters and part of our goal has to be to recruit more effective Sunni partners in Iraq to really go on offense rather than simply engage in defense," the president said.”Barely had Obama’s words been relayed to the world when those “contained” ISIS thugs executed a stunning attack in Paris, France, a coordinated assault that involved as many as six attack points and which led to the murder of at least 140 civilians. This on the heels of what was almost certainly an ISIS- planted bomb on a Russian airline which cost 224 people their lives over the Sinai in Egypt. The president would be well advised to resist the temptation to boast of military containment over forces that he claims the US is not at war with!
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John W. Lillpop is a recovering liberal. “Clean and sober” since 1992 when last he voted for a Democrat. For years, John lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, the very liberal sanctuary city which protects, rather than prosecutes, certain favored criminals. John escaped the Bay Area in May and now lives in Pine Grove California where conservative values are still in vogue.