Poll: More Than 60 Percent Oppose Obama’s Handling Of ISIS Situation

Matt Vespa / Townhall Tipsheet

 

The United States is now back in Iraq; we’re sending a scant number of Special Forces into Syria; and Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said last month that U.S. troops would see “more direct action on the ground” in both arenas. Russia seems to be taking point in wiping out ISIS (and possibly non-ISIS) targets, and our $500 million program to train Syrian rebels was scrapped due to its abject failure. Overall, none of what the U.S. has done has curbed the Islamic State’s influence or expansion, which is probably why 60 percent of the country disapproves of how the president is handling the situation (via AP):

Americans are souring on President Barack Obama's approach to fighting the Islamic State, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that also found deep pessimism about U.S. prospects for success in Afghanistan and uncertainty about Obama's plan to leave thousands of troops there when he leaves office. 

More than 6 in 10 now reject Obama's handling of the threat posed by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, where Obama has been escalating the U.S. military's involvement in a bid to break a vexing stalemate. Support for his approach has followed a downward trajectory since the U.S. formed its coalition to fight the group in late 2014. Last September, Americans were roughly split, yet disapproval has jumped 8 percentage points just since January.

Islamic State hackers post phone numbers of heads of the CIA and FBI
By Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch

 

And hack 54,000 Twitter accounts. We will be seeing more of this. “ISIS ‘cyber caliphate’ hacks 54,000 Twitter accounts and posts phone numbers of heads of the CIA and FBI in revenge for the drone attack that killed a British extremist,” by Ian Gallagher, The Mail On Sunday, November 7, 2015: Jihadis have hacked tens […]
 
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Thousands March Demanding Merkel’s Resignation

Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs

She has got to go. Germans can’t leave their homes — that’s how dangerous the situation has become.

The anti-mass migration Alternativ für Deutschland (AfD) party held a rally in the German capital Berlin yesterday, demanding the resignation of Chancellor Angela Merkel.

This is not AfD’s first protest. Last week, thousands of protesters gathered in Erfurt against Germany’s and the EU’s refugee policies. AfD is the only party that is not seen as extremely right-wing, even though it opposes Germany’s current refugee policy and Germany’s whole migration policy.

Current polls say the the AfD is on the rise.

PICTURES: AfD Protest In Berlin Demands Stronger Borders, Calls For Merkel To...

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Op-ed:
Can You Say 'Cover-Up'
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on cprworldwidemedia.net

Some interesting developments regarding the crash of Flight 7K9268...over the weekend a high ranking Russian official met with Obama and crew in D.C. to discuss the plane crash and now suddenly the always claimed 'muffled' uncharacteristic sound heard in the cockpit has become a 'loud' noise consistent with a bomb.

Can you say cover-up BIG time especially with the F.B.I offering to 'help' the Russians...like the Russians need our help with investigating a crash site. And still NO explosive residue has been found on the bodies or suitcases...bottom line...NO bomb on board brought that plane down...a missile did...period.

Look at the long dark rectangular object coming down off the left side of the plane...that is consistent with the size and shape of a Russian S-202 missile...like the one used by the Russian dissidents who took down the Malaysian flight over Russia a few years ago. I, and my Right Side Patriot partner Craig Andresen, believe this type of missile 'somehow' got into the hands of ISIS who then took the plane down as payback for Putin's bombing the hell out of them and their cohorts...as in the anything but moderate rebels...in Syria...and worse...there will probably be more incidents like this coming.

Are American planes next...that is a key question that must be addressed by this administration. However, when we have a president in office who cannot even say the words 'islamic terrorism' the possibility of this happening to one of ours becomes a scary reality indeed.

See our full Investigative Report: 'Flight 7K9268 Downed...The Truth Exposed' at: 
http://thepatriotfactor.blogspot.com/2015/11/investigative-report-flight-7k9268.html
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http://www.thenationalpatriot.com/2015/11/07/flight-7k9268-downed-the-truth-exposed/

California school district bans drawing Muhammad
By Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch

 

The assignment was not meant to mock Muhammad or insult Muslims. It simply involved drawing pictures related to various Islamic terms: Koran, Mecca, Muhammad. The banning of images of Muhammad even at this level and with this intent is kowtowing to violent intimidation, which will only encourage more of it, and accepting Sharia restrictions on […]
 
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British Muslims behind jet bomb attack: London & Birmingham Muslims cheered disaster

Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs

That these jihadis were British is as relevant as the color of their socks. To the global jihad, nationality, borders, geography, affluence, education, skin color are irrelevant. It’s one thing and one thing only. Islam.

These Muslims brought down a plane in Egypt. How long before it’s London, New York or Paris? Not long. I have warned of what’s coming for years.

Cameron promised to take in tens of thousands more Muslim “migrants,” even though we know thousands of Islamic State jihadis have infiltrated the invasion.

This is war — and the West is importing invaders into our countries. Madness.

Apparently there have been several missile attacks on airliners in the Sharm-el-Sheikh corridor. ...

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Keystone Decision Is About Obama’s Position On The World Stage

Marita Noon / Townhall Columnist

 

Today, in finally denying the Keystone pipeline, President Obama showed his true colors. We now know, as we’ve long believed, that those colors are the green of the anti-fossil fuel crowd, rather than the color of jobs resulting in economic growth in the hard-hit heartland of the United States. For seven years, he has tried to appease both his union supporters who want the good jobs Keystone would have provided and his environmental allies who declared it a “dirty” project that would add to global CO2 emissions. Now, before the United Nations climate conference, he can wave his green credentials and claim to be a world leader in the fight against global warming—which, I believe, was the whole purpose of the decision and subsequent announcement.

Obama’s statement was less about the Keystone pipeline and more of a brag session on America’s supposed conversion to a clean energy economy. He stated: “Thanks, in part, to the investments we’ve made, there are already parts of America where clean power from the wind or the sun is finally cheaper than dirty conventional power.” Yet, his climate change ally Bill Gates, in the November issue of The Atlantic magazine makes clear that this is a “misleadingly mindless statement.” Addressing the “self-defeating claims of some clean-energy enthusiasts,” Gates says: “What they mean is that at noon in Arizona, the cost of that kilowatt-hour is the same as a hydrocarbon kilowatt-hour. But it doesn’t come at night, it doesn’t come after the sun hasn’t shone, so the fact that in that one moment you reach parity, so what?” Additionally Gates calls the growth in wind: “very subsidized” and solar: “highly subsidized.”

During the announcement, Obama said the clean energy economy is “booming.” He’s conveniently ignored Abengoa—the Spanish solar company that received the biggest single award from his 2009 stimulus package, yet today is under investigation from several federal agencies and is teetering on edge of bankruptcy after stock prices plunged more than 30 percent..

The President also made the “misleading” statement that the growth in wind and solar will help America’s “energy security”—when in fact, wind and solar produce electricity, while oil powers America’s transportation fleet. America is already, and has been, electricity secure. Wind and solar do nothing to reduce our need for oil.

His closing comment: “America’s prepared to show the rest of the world the way forward,” proves that his position on the world stage is more important than policy positions that would provide jobs for Americans.