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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Solution is to abolish elections and just do perpetual war:
Senator Says Obama Is Only Fighting ISIS To Help Democrats, Will Abandon War After Midterm ElectionsNew Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R) argued on Sunday that President Obama has declared war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria in order to help Democrats win the midterm elections in November and expressed concern that he would abandon the fight in the new year.
I think we have a problem where the presidents foreign policy is being trapped by his campaign rhetoric, Ayotte began during an appearance on Fox News Sunday. Im very fearful as we look at the current military strategy that it is surrounding the November elections and he wont have the resolve to follow through with what needs to be done in a sustained effort to destroy ISIS, and were about to repeat the same thing with Afghanistan, she added, referring to the effort to withdraw American troops from that country.
Asked directly by host Chris Wallace if she was suggesting that after the November election and acting tough and talking tough, that he will pull back from confronting ISIS, Ayotte responded that she was.
Im very concerned about that, Chris, and his resolve in this regard.
http://thinkprogress.org/world/2014/10/05/3576186/senator-says-obama-is-only-fighting-isis-to-help-democrats-will-abandon-war-after-midterm-elections/
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The Solution is to abolish elections and just do perpetual war: (Original Post)
kpete
Oct 2014
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valerief
(53,235 posts)1. "And what'll we do without our wars then? We'll be lost without our wars!!!"
librechik
(30,659 posts)2. no you have to pretend there are elections or the people will rebel.
inverted totalitarianism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism