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Obama's Strategy: From "Don't Do Stupid S*&t" to "Don't Do Anything"
Michelle Obama's Mirror ^ | 2-7-2015 | MOTUS

Posted on 02/07/2015 8:31:00 AM PST by NOBO2012

hope-is-not-a-strategyRelax America, we now have an official national security strategy.

President Obama delivered a long-overdue national security strategy document to Congress Friday, emphasizing diplomacy over military power and warning against American over-reach in world affairs.

The 35-page policy document released yesterday tweaks our previous strategy of Leading From Behind® (LFB). You may recall that the primary tactic of that successful strategy was “don’t do stupid stuff.” As that proved inordinately more difficult to implement than we had HOPE-d, we’ve augmented it – with our new strategy of “don’t do anything.” It’s an extension of our popular “wait and see” attitude towards non-existential threats.

The Two Fat Ladies (RIP, Jennifer and Clarissa) “Wait; Something Will Happen” strategy

Or in Big Guy’s own words: “The challenges we face require strategic patience and persistence.”  Which seems appropriate enough as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Obama puppet, Susan Rice, has informed us that we are not facing an “existential” threat.

“Still, while the dangers we face may be more numerous and varied, they are not of the existential nature we confronted during World War II or during the Cold War.”

Of course neither Susan nor Barry seem to think that Israel is facing an “existential” threat from Iran either so I must conclude that they don’t think “existential” means what I think it means.

late great israel

Anyway, the new strategy document in part shifts the focus: 

“from destroying the Islamic State group to ‘a comprehensive effort to degrade and ultimately defeat’ it.”

Something that Big Guy’s LFB strategy was inordinately incompetent at so maybe this new “Strategic Patience” thing will work out better. If not, I guess we go directly to Plan D, “Conscious Uncoupling.”

Oh wait, we’ve already tried that.

Gwyneth-Paltrow-Conscious-Uncoupling-Obama-044
And if that doesn’t work I guess we all have to go into group therapy:

GROUP therapy

So everybody: cross your fingers and HOPE that our “Strategic Patience” works out.

to do list nothingDONE!

Posted from: Michelle Obama’s Mirror 


TOPICS: Humor; Politics
KEYWORDS: iran; isis; israel; lebanon; obama; susanrice; waronterror; yemen

1 posted on 02/07/2015 8:31:00 AM PST by NOBO2012
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To: NOBO2012

It’s all the result of a misunderstanding. He asked a rational member of the military what he should do and the response was “don’t do anything, stupid.” He didn’t hear the comma.


2 posted on 02/07/2015 8:38:06 AM PST by hometoroost
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To: NOBO2012

The epitaph on the Democrat Party will read; Don’t do Nuttin! aka Don’t Worry-Be Happy!


3 posted on 02/07/2015 8:42:02 AM PST by lee martell
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To: NOBO2012

Easy for him, he’s got a nice warm bunker stocked with Kobi beef and other necessities somewhere under Washington DC.

For me, not so lucky.


4 posted on 02/07/2015 8:56:12 AM PST by Texicanus (Texas, it's like a whole 'nother country.)
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To: NOBO2012

Makes sense. He utterly failed at “Don’t do stupid s*&t”...


5 posted on 02/07/2015 8:56:30 AM PST by null and void (The aggregate effect of competitive capitalism is indistinguishable from magic)
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To: NOBO2012
Unfortunately Susan Rice is the National Security Advisor, not UN Ambassador. Also unfortunately, Samantha Power is the UN Ambassador from the US.

Rice source.
Power source.

6 posted on 02/07/2015 9:02:01 AM PST by upchuck (Entrenched incumbency is the disease. Fresh blood is the cure.)
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To: NOBO2012

Anything you do can get you killed, including nothing.


7 posted on 02/07/2015 9:08:27 AM PST by BuffaloJack (When did the 2nd amendment suddenly require a license or permit for a gun?)
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To: NOBO2012



8 posted on 02/07/2015 9:11:44 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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