September 1, 2014

George Will, the conservative pundit who is usually unintelligible, breaks from the Republican talking points that paint Obama as weak for not immediately unleashing the Kraken on ISIS and then makes some good points on Fox News about how we should deal with ISIS. George actually applauded President Obama for not rushing into a nightmare scenario, praising him for his cautious approach.

GEORGE WILL, SYNDICATED COLUMNIST: Well, yes, I mean, caution, which is what he's being criticized for, is a nice defect to have after the first decade of the century. On the other hand, the rhetoric has not been cautious. The president talked about rolling back ISIS, Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff talking about the need to destroy ISIS. That means liberate large cities that have been taken, which you can't do with F-16s and F-18s.

I think what the president is trying to do, and I sympathize with this, is to get the neighborhood to rally. I mean, look what's in the neighborhood. Saudi Arabia has 250 highly competent aircraft and an AWACS system to control it. You got Iran and Iraq, are enemies of ISIS, so is Syria, Jordan, and the Kurds who are, for all intents and purposes, a nation right now.

So, you got six nations in the neighborhood. If they can't do it, we shouldn't.

Shockingly, Will understands that bringing in the neighboring countries that have a vested interest in stopping ISIS is not only the smart way to go, but it's the only way to go. Nobody on Fox refuted what he had to say which kind of shocked me. Who would have thought that Will was the acting liberal on the panel?

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