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via Tony Blair: force is necessary in struggle against radical Islam | Politics | The Guardian.
Whilst, Tony Blair struggles with his reputation in the UK, he is still an extremely influential voice with American conservatives.
Personally, I think that Blair has hit an important nerve. Implicitly, he is criticizing Obama‘s reluctance to use more US military force in the Middle East.
Thoughts?
Dr Alf's Blog 
The Pentagon has already submitted a plan to President Obama telling him how to defeat ISIS but he has rejected it.
He does not want “boots on the ground” and is interested in toppling Syria and appeasing Saudi Arabia,Qatar and Kuwait who are the financial paymasters of ISIS.
Dr Alf’s question relates to Tony Blair who is respected in America,however the armaments manufacturers on the Washington “Beltway” and the jobs they create plus lobbying from our own BAE Defence Systems are an even more powerful voice who want to sell arms to the same people who are financing ISIS.
For the time being the Obama calculus may very well be let ISIS ,Boko Haram and others rampage but put no boots on the ground until he is ready to leave office in November 2016 after which the problem is someone else’s.
If in the meantime Syria falls and the next domino on the Middle East chessboard,Iran,remains in the cross hairs then so much the better for Obama who can argue that he has no mandate from a war weary US public to put “boots on the ground”.
The reality is that the money does not flow to ISIS directly but goes via a Turkish bank in London and then to Turkey which is in league with ISIS by supplying logistics,using its hospitals and doctors to treat ISIS fighters.
Other money for ISIS comes from looting and plundering the areas they conquer ,the application of taxes on the conquered populations(the ones they don’t kill) and from sales of oil.
Like Tony Blair I think these people are at war with us already and our response has been and still is limp wristed and inadequate.
However Obama is a man who vacillates and dithers so I expect him to play the waiting game,wash his hands of the affair in latter day Pontius Pilate style and drive off on his golf buggy into the Californian sunset in 2016