Posted on 03/23/2011 10:17:24 AM PDT by Nachum
Barack Obama tried to convince Univision last night that the US has an exit strategy from the Libya conflict, and that strategy is to, er, stick around and fight. Jake Tapper calls it a Lewis Carroll moment, while others might consider it more Orwellian:
In an interview with Univision Tuesday, President Obama re-defined the term “exit strategy,” and said our exit strategy in Libya would begin this week.
“The exit strategy will be executed this week,” President Obama said, “in the sense that we will be pulling back from our much more active efforts to shape the environment. We will still be in a support role. We will be supplying jamming, intelligence and other assets unique to us.”
Planes in the air? Ships in the Mediterranean? Intelligence being provided? Doesn’t sound like an exit strategy at all.
What it does recall is Lewis Carroll.
“‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
Tapper goes on to heap more scorn on Obama’s sudden embrace of the non-exit exit strategy, so be sure to read it all. And he’s right to do so: an exit strategy is just that: a strategy towards an exit. What Obama is attempting to sell is a handoff of responsibility for military leadership to someone else, anyone else.
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He’ll be pulling out even quicker if Congress gives him the thumbs down.
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I think Obama’s Exit Strategy was to go to Latin America.
Defense Secretary Gates, talking about who would take over for the US and when, said, “this command and control business is complicated. We haven’t done something like this, kind of on the fly before. And so it’s not surprising to me that it would take a few days to get it all sorted out.”
This is what amateurs do: they improvise in the huddle rather than execute tried-and-tested plays that have been planned, prepared for, and practiced repeatedly. Hail Mary passes rarely work and they often result in interceptions. QDaffy probably can’t believe his good fortune that it’s Obama he faces right now rather than Ronald Reagan.
Hey, what do Democrats and Republicans have in common?
Someone in the middle east is going to get a tomahawk.
20 yrs plus, and we DELIVER!
The pull out method, I used that as a young man. It doesn’t really work all the time.
It appears that what Barry is saying is that Hillary and the other two ladies ,Rice and Power, talked him into joining the coalition, then as he started catching flak for it, he has had a change of view and now wants out, leaving the coalition in the cold and once more establishing himself as a man that Europe cannot trust.
Exit strategy? We have a President who develops the strategy AFTER the launching the attack.
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