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President Obama held a press conference Monday afternoon to update the American people on the, um, progress being made in the country’s war on ISIS. It’s safe to say that the president didn’t cover much new ground aside from declaring,”Ideologies are not defeated with guns, they’re defeated by better ideas.”
The president also repeated the importance of the United States not going it alone in the fight, lest we end up playing “whack-a-mole.”
Obama on ISIS strategy: If we try to do everything ourselves… we’ll be playing whack-a-mole http://t.co/DDxTR57dYF http://t.co/I2SzlqzXdY
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) July 6, 2015
POTUS still sounding cool to escalating war on ISIS saying he doesn't want to play "whack-a-mole" with terrorists.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) July 6, 2015
Obama: "If we go around playing whack-a-mole, there'll be a whole lot of unintended consequences that make us less secure." Drone strikes?
— Micah Zenko (@MicahZenko) July 6, 2015
POTUS: "If we try to do everything ourselves we’ll be playing whack-a-mole".
No one is asking U.S. to do everything. Just arm the Kurds.
— FJ (@Natsecjeff) July 6, 2015
this is especially true since, in order to play whack-a-mole, you have to insert coins into the machine yourself https://t.co/IrV5R1rbb4
— d?e?m?a (@killstatus) July 6, 2015
“Unofficial White House statistician” and CBS News reporter Mark Knoller has as usual been keeping track of the numbers, and he has noticed President Obama’s particular obsession with whack-a-mole. It’d be a shame if the Obama Presidential Library didn’t house at least one of the carnival machines.
Pres Obama says US cannot not play "Whac-a-Mole" by acting alone against ISIL across Middle East and North Africa. pic.twitter.com/ijjK9jkLPw
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) July 6, 2015
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By my count, it's the 7th time Pres Obama has used the Whac-a-Mole metaphor. pic.twitter.com/yWLz1srIHg
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) July 6, 2015
Six times Pres Obama used "Whac-a-Mole" in reference to terror groups. Once in reference to plugging tax loopholes.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) July 6, 2015
Speaking of the crisis in Yemen this January, President Obama warned that “to play whack-a-mole every time there is a terrorist actor inside of any given country, to deploy U.S. troops” would be an unsustainable strategy. And last June, in an interview on the rapid advance of ISIS in Iraq, the president asserted that “what we can’t do is think that we’re just going to play whack-a-mole and send U.S. troops occupying various countries wherever these organizations pop up.”
No whack-a-mole; got it.
So um – what exactly is the plan, Mr. President?
— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) July 6, 2015
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