According to this cartoon, President Obama tries to make a point that he has the entire four part plan under control but seems to contradict himself over every single thing that he is saying. The author behind this cartoon portrays a mood of uncertainty. It needs to be made clear that the President is lost on how to attack this conflict. How can we know for sure that we have joined forces with the real "good guys?" From a U.S citizen's point of view, all of the groups are harmful to us and can not be trusted. However, we continue to waste precious time and money to provide a potential enemy with weapons and tactics from training. In the end, we could be raising an army that could possibly turn against us.
Time is running out for the President to make a clean cut decision on how he is going to handle the threats from ISIS and if he is fully involving the U.S in aiding the Syrian conflict. Sending a minimal of 400- 500 U.S soldiers will barely make a difference to the outcome. Air strikes are the only solution that seems logical to me without endangering our soldiers, but that won't hold them off forever. ISIS is only growing not shrinking and their plans are advancing over ours.
It is believed that President Obama is trying to wait out his final decisions until the election. I agree with this belief because he is leaving people questioning their safety on a daily basis. In my opinion, he does not want to make any drastic decisions that may lose the vote for him come election time. However, if he doesn't at least lay out a successful and smart foundation for a plan, people will resent him for not making any effort to fight against terrorism.
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