Posted on 10/03/2009 10:57:21 AM PDT by AJKauf
I suppose it’s a tribute to the president’s tenacity, or perhaps his inability to think outside the box of conventional wisdom, but he seems to be totally unwilling to accept a Divine gift.
He’s facing some terrible foreign policy decisions, decisions he doesn’t want to make, and he’s right to want to avoid them, because whichever way he tilts, it’s going to be bad for him. Take Afghanistan. McChrystal and Petreus have told him that if he doesn’t go all in, to the tune of forty thousand or so additional American fighters, he’s likely to see the war there go into the tank. Those generals are outstanding leaders and analysts, and if they say that, it’s probably true. On the other hand, President Obama is probably being told by his political brain trust that, if he antes up the forty thousand, there will be anger from his left (his solid base), while if he doesn’t provide the new troops, and bails out, there will be anger from mainstream Americans.
Remember your Patton: “The American people hate a loser.”
So either way, the president is likely to alienate a considerable number of voters. Which, needless to say, displeases him....
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Ah shucks......it displeases him? Now ain’t that to dam bad. What to do, what to do, what to do? He has no dam idea. Do we have a Patton out there someplace?
We probably would have had another Patton but he got shut out of West Point in favor of an affirmative action selection.
Probably truer than we all know. That also has got to stop. We need leaders again in this country......not a bunch of whiners.
Ashew the politics and the choice is easy. Too bad that’s asking too much.
The truth about Copenhagen is that he has done something to displease Soros. Soros is in Brazil so my money is on Soros bought the Olympics for Brazil because Obama was getting too cocky and he needed to knock him down a few pegs to remind him who is really in charge.
The real question is "what does Soros want in Afghanistan?"
On “Quds Day,” there were too many people in the streets, and the Revolutionary Guards and Basij could only stand by.
We Americans need to remember that when our equivalent of a "Quds Day" protest rolls around.
But Obama does not seem to recognize the golden opportunity that has fallen into his lap.
He doesn’t see it, nor, apparently, do his top advisers. They want to keep marching down the long dead end every president has trod for the past thirty years.
On the other hand, maybe the "miracle" is Zer0, his sycophants, and their collective (that's a good word for it) blindness it's self?
The free world gets a good view of the destruction of Obamunism, and finally learns a lesson.
Zer0 may himself be a Divine gift delivered to the American people.
Obama, as a pathological narcissist, has no ability to take any action that is not directly related to his narcissism. That is, he only acts in situations where the result is that the Other is in a state of adulation of Obama.
In any other situation, eg where he must write a policy, oversee a program, set up a plan..that will work for others’ benefit and not for that immediate ‘roar of the crowd’…Obama freezes. He is intellectually empty in such situations.
So, he delegates everything, and his sole activity is The Salesman in constant campaign. For himself.
He won’t and is unable to campaign for the Iranian people’s democratic desires because it’s for Them, not him.
His egoism and narcissism is so great that IF he can’t manipulate an Other into a state of adulation, then, the Other ceases to exist for Obama. Iran will simply cease to exist; Obama will mouth empty and contradictory platitudes but to him, Iran simply ‘isn’t existent’.
Obama, as has been noted, lives in a virtual world, a fictional world, and it is closed to reality.
There have been lots of discussions about Bam’s narcissism. This may be a picture of our future...
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I think Ledeen is likely correct that the Iran problem will resolve itself by the opposition overthrowing Amadinejad/mullahs.
I think the same thing could also happen to KGB/Putin, Chavez, PRC in China (Kim il Sung goes down the toilet with the PRC).
Obama won’t have done anything to help these events along, but he will take all the credit if they happen.
The IOC showed how limited Hussein really is, but he may be in the right place at the right time to benefit from an extraordinary amount of luck. (I think he will luck out on the economy as well, but that is a topic for another thread).
Can’t vote “Present” any more.
If 0bama is going to change the ROE’s to prevent civilian deaths from UAV air strikes and close air support, we are obviously going to need a lot more troops and can expect more US casualties. Seems to me he has painted himself into a corner or is just stupid.
This is the result of worrying more about what Barbara Streisand thinks than about the well-being of the nation and the American people.
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Yes but she is not in uniform.
“If the regime falls, two of Obama’s toughest decisions–and some others as well–will magically improve. Deprived of Tehran’s finances, weapons, intelligence, training camps and safe havens, our enemies in Afghanistan will be weaker, and our chances of success improved. The leader of the opposition Green Path of Hope, Mir Hossein Mousavi, has long said that any government he heads will terminate support for terrorism and open the country’s nuclear facilities to international inspection, thereby ameliorating all three of Obama’s major headaches with Tehran. For extras, Hezbollah–the world’s most effective and murderous terrorist organization–will be gravely weakened, as will Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria, which provides much of the territory from which Hezbollah operates. And the mullahs’ new friends in South America will be weakened as well, as will Russia’s ability to forge an international alliance against the United States.
“A miracle indeed. And all it requires for fulfillment is an administration that does what any normal American would do in the circumstances: support the democratic opposition in Iran. It does not require any bombs or bullets, nor does it risk the body and soul of any American soldiers. It only requires Obama, Hillary, Dennis Ross, William Burns and the others to call for a free Iran, to begin any negotiation with the mullahs by reading out a long list of political prisoners and insist they be released, to cry out for equal rights for Iranian women, and to appoint a staff at the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty that will redouble their efforts to bring the real news about their own country to millions of Iranians.”
He has a chance to defeat tyranny and leftism in South America as well, by supporting Honduras and branching out from there by siding with Columbia’s efforts against FARC and helping the pro-capitalists in Venezuela.
0bama’s refusal to support freedom and the rule of law shows his affinity for raw power and lawlessness. If that doesn’t frighten Americans, nothing will.
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