[RealJustme]

By Dick Cheney - Iraq is at risk of falling to a radical Islamic terror group and Mr. Obama is talking climate change. Terrorists take control of more territory and resources than ever before in history, and he flies off to California and goes golfing. He seems blithely unaware, or indifferent to the fact, that a resurgent al Qaeda presents a clear and present danger to the United States of America.

As the terrorists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) threaten Baghdad, thousands of slaughtered Iraqis in their wake, it is worth recalling a few of President Obama's past statements about ISIS and al Qaeda. "If a J.V. team puts on Lakers' uniforms that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant, it's fear mongering to believe otherwise" (January 2014). "Al Qaeda is on its heels, has been decimated" (August 2013). "So, let there be no doubt: The tide of war is receding, they have been defeated, there will be peace" (September 2011).

Al Qaeda and its affiliates are resurgent and they present a security threat not seen since the Cold War. Defeating them will require a strategy—not a fantasy. It will require sustained difficult military, intelligence and diplomatic efforts—not empty misleading rhetoric. It will require rebuilding America's military capacity—reversing the Obama policies that have weakened our armed forces and reduced our ability to influence events around the world.

American freedom will not be secured by empty threats, meaningless red lines, leading from behind, appeasing our enemies, abandoning our allies, or apologizing for our great nation—all hallmarks to date of the Obama doctrine. Our security, and the security of our friends around the world, can only be guaranteed with a fundamental reversal of the policies of the past six years.

In 1983, President Ronald Reagan said, "If history teaches anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. It means the betrayal of our past, the squandering of our freedom." President Obama is on track to securing his legacy as the man who betrayed our past and squandered our freedom.

Sadly Mr. Obama either doesn't get it or he just doesn't care, as long as he can party and golf, the terrorist threat is someone else's problem. When they hit us and they will, Obama will say he didn't see it coming and will immediately start spinning the attack and pointing fingers.

[johnforbes]

Cheney has delivered the tough talk I'd like to see Bush Jr also deliver.

The IRS scandal, the lies about Obamacare, the lies about Benghazi, this is impeachment-level stuff.

Nobody -- nobody -- believes the IRS lost the email of Lois Lerner or the other six people.