{"id":563,"date":"2014-09-18T10:33:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T15:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=563"},"modified":"2014-09-18T10:34:08","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T15:34:08","slug":"pelosi-on-isis-and-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=563","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Undermines US Strategy on ISIS and Troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House democrat Nancy Pelosi is showing us once more how the left think about radical muslim groups like ISIS.\u00a0 Earlier this week Pelosi made the following comment about sending ground troops in against ISIS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe worse it gets the less reason I think we should send troops.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, the humorous, and political knee jerk reaction the left would take with such a comment is Pelosi is all right with sending in troops if the conditions were better.\u00a0 And while that may seem ridiculous, it seems to sum up the left&#8217;s attitude in combating ISIS.\u00a0 It is in conflict with chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General\u00a0Martin Dempsey who stated troops might be needed.\u00a0 In response Pelosi said this.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever he intended and however they characterized it \u2014 and I\u2019m sure in the military they always reserve the right to review a strategy on certain topics, all I can say to you and I\u2019ve told this to my caucus and they have told it to me \u2014 we are not there to support combat troops in any of these engagements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Its typical of democrats recently when talking about strategy.\u00a0 They limit their options, time and again, never realizing how it weakens their position.\u00a0 Its especially damning when Pelosi says this about their strategy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is what we have to be doing is to use our leverage \u2014 and some of that may be training of troops in order to stop an organization like ISIS in it\u2019s tracks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When you take an option away, you give away leverage.\u00a0 When will the democrats come to understand this?\u00a0 Of course, when will democrats stop saying stupid things that undermine our national security?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House democrat Nancy Pelosi is showing us once more how the left think about radical muslim groups like ISIS.\u00a0 Earlier this week Pelosi made the following comment about sending ground troops in against ISIS. \u201cThe worse it gets the less reason I think we should send troops.\u201d Now, the humorous, and political knee jerk reaction [&hellip;]<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=563\" class=\"more-link\" >Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6,21,20],"tags":[573,576,11,574,572,96,506,575],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberals","category-politics","category-united-states","category-world","tag-comments","tag-dempsey","tag-isis","tag-leverage","tag-nancy","tag-pelosi","tag-strategy","tag-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}