Yesterday, Ron Sent me a link to this column by Victor Davis Hanson about Obumbler’s foreign policy. An excerpt.
Going into a country to help one side and hurt another in a civil war — if that is the latest reason to go to war — assumes the administration has some wisdom about recent Middle East turmoil. Unfortunately, nothing suggests that it does.
You’ve heard of the Midas touch? Everything Midas touched turned to gold. Now we have the Obummer touch. Everything he touches turns to crap. The economy? Crap! Compare where we were at the start of Reagan’s second term to where we are at this time in Oblunder’s second term. Unemployment is still over 7%. It would be worse if we counted the people who have given up looking for work. The economy is still weak four years after the “recovery”. The LSM has done its best to make things look good from “green shoots” to “funemployment”. Obummercare is turning out to be the disaster that its critics said it would. It’s created a crap load of part time workers. Green energy? Crap! What about foreign policy?
Obama shows no interest in anything approximating victory in Afghanistan.
Leaving a residual force in Iraq to preserve a hard-fought victory in achieving a constitutional order was apparently not a good political slogan for 2012.
As Iraq descends into civil war many Iraqis want us to come back. Wonder how Monkey Boy al Sadr feels about that. You Iraqis should have thought about that when negotiating a status of forces agreement with us.
Libya, to the extent we know what is now going on, is probably worse off than before we led from behind there; There is no administration interest in explaining, much less avenging, our losses in Benghazi. Indeed, the administration has told us less about Benghazi than about Syria.
“What difference does it make (that we mucked it up and got Americans killed)”, said Thunder Rodent Thighs.
The common denominator among U.S. actions in Egypt has been the administration’s doing the wrong thing: abruptly junking Mubarak, then backing the Muslim Brotherhood, and then denying that the would-be reformist generals had staged a coup and are a junta.
And Johnnie “Maverick” McRINO and his Mini-me Little Lindsey Graham are for the Mooslime Brotherhood. What’s up with that? Yannow, if you threw a brick at McRINO’s ass, you would hit Little Lindsey in the back of his head.
I can remember when Little Lindsey was a conservative. He was one of the floor managers in the House for the Impeachment of BJ. He sure has changed. He reminds me of an instructor I worked with at IBM. He was a nice guy until he became a manager. He was groomed for the job by one of the best managers I ever worked for at IBM. He was doing just fine until he started hanging out with another manager who took him to the dark side and turned him into an asshole. Fortunately, when that happened, I was no longer in that group. I had my own CDSM© to deal with by then. It was really sad watching a nice guy turn into a butthead. The guys who worked for him lost all respect for him.
To support the bombing of Syria, we must assume both that Obama has more knowledge of insurgencies than he did in relation to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya and that suddenly he has more stomach for intervening and sorting out good from bad. Unfortunately, that seems unlikely.
It looks like the proper US foreign policy would be doing exactly the opposite of what Obeavis wants to do. If Obutthead wanted to destroy our foreign policy credibility with the rest of the world, exactly what would he be doing differently?
No one currently in charge of U.S. foreign policy has any record of foreign-policy success. Those who might have offered wise counsel either are dead, have left the administration, or do not exercise authority — Crocker, Eikenberry, Gates, Holbrooke, Mattis, Petraeus. In contrast, the common theme among Obama, Biden, Hagel, Rice, Kerry, and Power is not brilliance. They cannot agree in public with each other; they contradict their own past statements; they have lost the public’s confidence in their veracity; and they sermonize and pontificate rather than inspire. One day we are bombing and skipping authorization from Congress; the next day, everything is on hold while Congress vacations; the next, its vote may not even matter; the next, the “shot across the bow” is a full-fledged, non-tiny attack; and most recently, everything is on hold again while the Russians — in the middle of a civil war, no less — negotiate with Assad to account for and turn over his WMD. We are certainly not in reliable hands to make one of the most complicated interventions in recent U.S. history.
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Now it looks like Putin is gonna save Obeauzeau’s bacon thus making Putin look strong and Oboner look weak.
One Big Assed Mistake America. But we did give our first black president two terms in office. Affirmative action Diversity (All Hail Diversity!) met the Peter Principle. Elections have consequences. These last two sure have.