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Obama’s “war” against ISIS has as much chance of succeeding as he has of finding unicorns to join his anti-ISIS “coalition.”<\/p>\n

Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles beautifully captures the absurd premise underlying Obama’s latest war.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Perhaps most of the members of the House of Representatives who voted to support the “war” yesterday are simply\u00a0clueless about the hard realities of Middle East religious conflicts.\u00a0Most of the pro-war congressmen don’t give a damn about squandering\u00a0the lives of more American soldiers to permit politicians to pirouette as world saviors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Obama’s “war” against ISIS has as much chance of succeeding as he has of finding unicorns to join his anti-ISIS “coalition.” Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles beautifully captures the absurd premise underlying Obama’s latest war.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Perhaps most of the members of the House of Representatives who voted to support the “war” yesterday are simply\u00a0clueless about the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,15,202,36,453,38,75],"class_list":["post-7545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cartoon","tag-congress","tag-fraud","tag-iraq","tag-isis","tag-obama","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"\nCartoon Obliterates Obama's War on ISIS Fantasy - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/18\/cartoon-obliterates-obamas-war-isis-fantasy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cartoon Obliterates Obama's War on ISIS Fantasy - 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