Posted on 08/31/2013 12:39:22 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
President Bush knew how to build a coalition
George W. Bush was widely mocked by the Left during the Iraq War, with liberals jeering at the “coalition of the willing,” which included in its ranks some minnows such as Moldova and Kazkhstan. Michael Moore, in his rather silly documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, went to great lengths to lampoon the Iraq War alliance. But the coalition also contained, as I pointed out in Congressional testimony back in 2007, Great Britain, Australia, Spain, Italy, Poland, and 16 members of the NATO alliance, as well as Japan and South Korea. In Europe, France and Germany were the only large-scale countries that sat the war out, with 12 of the 25 members of the European Union represented. The coalition, swelled to roughly 40 countries, and was one of the largest military coalitions ever assembled.
As it stands, President Obama’s proposed military coalition on Syria has a grand total of two members – the US and France. And the French, as we know from Iraq, simply can’t be relied on, and have very limited military capability. It is a truly embarrassing state of affairs when Paris, at best a fair weather friend, is your only partner. John Kerry tried to put a brave face on it at his press conference today, by referring to France “as our oldest ally,” but the fact remains that his administration is looking painfully isolated.
There can be no doubt that David Cameron’s defeat in the House of Commons was a huge blow to President Obama, and has dominated the US news networks this morning.
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Obama is Keystone Cop on the World Stage.
Gosh, who saw this coming?
Freegards
LEX
Thank you Ernest.
The Narcissist in Chief is not going to take this very well.
Stoneyjack
21 minutes ago
The arrogant, odious, incompetent Bush gave us the arrogant, odious, incompetent Obama. A pox upon both. The sad thing is, McCain or Hillary would have been even worse.
Yes, like this is supposed to be a surprise. Do they really think we are that stupid?
Ya don’t say....Bush was a better President than Obama? Gee, what a surprise.
IMHO, Obama ONLY seeking congress approval since he knows without approval he would have eventually been impeached.
Obama wanted to play safe because he knows at some point you need troops on the ground. With Congressional approval for air strikes he will expand his authority for troops on the ground.
Congress will not approve knowing the risk.
There is only one way for Obama to come out of this looking good.....he needs a distraction....He’s gotta pull a Clinton rabbit out of the hat.....He’s gotta start “ridin dirty”.
sin marcar Juan and Linda are now deeply troubled.
“Under my plan, if you like to use your chemical weapons, you get to keep using your chemical weapons.”
There is a very liberal retired Navy officer, a 4 stripper, in our area, who loved to say Bush went into Iraq alone.
When he would say this, I would accuse him of having someone take his math exams at the Naval Academy. GW had 40 countries backing him, and he wasn’t a cowboy by himself.
When he tried to argue, I responded that he had someone take his reading classes, since he was incapable of reading as well as counting.
Thank God this lying idiot is out of our Navy.
At least the Keystone cops were funny and inept, Zero is just inept.
Juvenile delinquent in charge alert!
Count me NOT surprised and count the headline as a gross understatement.
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