Posted on 12/19/2015 9:15:08 PM PST by CharlesOConnell
In other words, Neither "Lead, Follow nor Get Out of the Way", from the greatest example of a generation that dishonors our honor-motivated military.
(Returning Viet Nam War Veterans were spat upon. Yet the Pentagon never wanted to be there; it was all Foggy Bottom's doing.)
PJ Media-Belmont Club's Richard Fernandez (The Lost Revolution, December 18, 2015):
Shadi Hamid, looking back on the Arab Spring in the Atlantic, concluded that the Obama administration's inaction was objectively tantamount to complicity. "The notion of neutrality, for a country as powerful as the United States, is illusory." Everyone took a side because everyone takes a side. Everyone that is, except Barack Obama, who was too smart to fight for his own interests and opted for intentional passivity.
So, fine, Big Br'O, you don't want to be in charge, at least honor The Dog and the Ox in the Manger.
A Dog looking out for its afternoon nap jumped into the Manger of an Ox and lay there cosily upon the straw. But soon the Ox, returning from its afternoon work, came up to the Manger and wanted to eat some of the straw. The Dog in a rage, being awakened from its slumber, stood up and barked at the Ox, and whenever it came near attempted to bite it. At last the Ox had to give up the hope of getting at the straw, and went away muttering: "People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves".
What inaction?? He actively supported it at every turn, from murdering Muammar Gaddafi to supporting Morsi and even now, his desire to take out Assad for the Caliphate. The Arab Spring could not have happened without Obama and the Hildibeast. His administration has been on the wrong side from the get-go. This whole article is just about the muslim Brotherhood whining that Obama didn’t help them enough.
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