Obama's Oval Office address on terrorism

President Obama gave his third only address from the Oval Office setting last night, signalling that he considered this a major speech.   And it was.

It was a calm, measured call for restraint along with our smart and determined resolve to defeat those who would destroy us.   He called us to the mature response of not giving in to fear or to those who would stir up fear and demand that we come out shooting.

It's clear that our president and his advisers understand this complex situation far better than those Republican candidates who want him to invade Syria and Iraq with hundreds of thousands of ground troops, or to bomb the s--t out of them.   It is rather pathetic to see Donald Trump boasting even more broadly (if that's possible) about how tough he would be, yet revealing that he has no plans and really wouldn't know what to do.  But he would do something tough, "so tough you don't want to hear about it !!!

Please, God, save us from letting such people get control of the White House and the nuclear bomb trigger.

Of course, Obama's speech was not satisfying to those who are itching (for someone else) to fight.    But the president is correct:   that would be taking the bait that the Islamic State is trying to goad us into taking.   Nothing increases their influence and the recruiting strength like us attacking.    But it's hard to meld the mentality of such cool rationalism and the hot heads that are calling him "such a pussy" . . . and worse.

Ralph