Obama is wrong. The threat is existential. He knows it is. If a terrorist attacked occurred today in the US Obama and Clinton both would say it was incited by islamophobic comments by Donald Trump. The United States elected the worst president in its history... and then doubled down for 4 more years. Its about to triple down by putting another clueless leftist up as its democrat nominee as an Obama surrogate. When you have a leftist in power in the US all kinds of foreign policy gets broken. When Carter was in office the USSR saw an opportunity to pound the shit out of Afghanistan but we jacked them up in a proxy war there as soon as we had an adult leader. With Obama in office Russia decided it could simply annex the entire Crimean peninsula and destabilize the Ukraine. Why not? When you know you are facing a feckless and incompetent western leader you can basically just do what you want to a certain extent. A republican president would have deployed those missile defense batteries to Poland like 7 years ago and would likely have deployed many more of them by now. Would that pressure have deterred Putin from grabbing Crimea? Hard to say but it certainly would have been an altogether different prospect. The Dems aren't just soft on terror, they are outright collaborators for the Caliphate and they will be the first to surrender and also the first to die if we ever end up under such rule. The left has a death wish and its determined to take the rest of us down with them. We've got North Korea detonating nuclear devices and conducting ICBM tests. We have Iran capturing USN sailors and conducting missile tests while continuing weapons development even as they receive *billions* of dollars above and below the table from our government.
There was a rather large smoking hole in the middle of lower Manhattan on Sept. 12, 2001 that makes a good case. The threat is existential. Anyone who doesn't see that is an idiot.
That was a big attack, yes, but since then we've killed 1000 times more Islamic fundamentalists over there then they killed here. Obama's "cooperation" with them has been so deadly I'm sure they'd hate to see us go to war with them. Since 9/11, apparently "white", Christian extremists right here in the US have killed more of us than Islamacists have.
ISIS states it has access to Nukes. Is that not existential threat enough. What hell. How sick is our leadership. additionally do you know what a emp at altitude would be projected to do to America because our electrical grid is not properly hardened. So Russia and China could definitely end America.
exactly... what the hell are these morons in leadership thinking. not an existential threat. no wonder they don't mind bringing in more terrorists as part of their immigration goals. wiping out 3000 people and causing trillions of dollars to be spent.. is ok...its not "existential". It sure the hell was to all the people who were impacted by the twin towers.
whose existence are we talking about... is there some official definition that says existential threat means 100 percent kill rate... if it is that makes Obama's statement even more clinically sick. So tactical nukes, dirty bombs or a nuke that wipes out part of the eastern seaboard is OK. I really don't get how anyone he can say that... or how it can be defended. its gone from JV team to its ok because they are not capable of wiping out 300 million people in a couple of years under his watch.