Krauthammer: Under Obama, ISIS Has Become ‘Largest Training Camp for Terrorism in’ History
>> Charles you have to wonder if the west is capable of waging a decisive victorious war. You harken back to World War I, World War II. You had a period of four or five years in which victory was won at terrible, terrible costs. Sometimes in the case of flattening cities, dresden in Germany, Tokyo, firebombing and atomic bombs of course, you can’t do that in the digital age. Can you?
>> Not that you want to flatten a city, but achieve ultimate victory.
KRAUTHAMMER: "We just learned today, we did not even flatten the oil facilities of ISIS, because it would harm the environment. I mean, we’re not asking a lot of the president. We’re simply asking what the French president asked for, a modicum or urgency, a modicum of commitment, and it has never been there and it isn’t there now and it’s not going to happen between now and the day he leaves office. He came into office determined to abolish the War on Terror. He wouldn’t allow the term. He doesn’t describe it the way it is. Essentially he returned to pre-9/11 law enforcement. Then he said in several speeches, we cannot continue with endless war because the damage it does to the fabric of our society. As if, line King Canute, he can order of war to stop, wars end when either one side is defeated or the other side stops, the other side is not stopping. Under Obama’s tenure, al Qaeda, which is sort of international terrorism jihadist terrorism, has expanded to the point where a branch, ISIS is essentially a branch, is the largest training camp for terrorism in the history of the world. It’s the size of the UK. It trains Europeans -- unlike al Qaeda, which was using only people of its own ethnic group. Arab, Saudis, Egyptians. It trains westerners, it sends them into the West. That’s why everyone is afraid. Paris showed what they’re capable of doing. We know that they’ve been doing it for years. Obama has not been moved one way or the other. To do anything serious. He wouldn’t even hit the oil facilities."
