Posted on 10/01/2014 3:57:22 AM PDT by markomalley
Last week, President Obama spoke to the United Nations about the growing threat of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. In the course of that speech, he discussed a wide variety of threats to Western civilization, ranging from Ebola to global warming, from chaos in Syria to China’s incursions in the South China Sea. The speech seemed unfocused, meandering. But it held together thanks to one common thread: Barack Obama believes that words solve everything. Particularly his own.
Obama’s narcissism isn’t mere arrogance. It’s messianism. It’s pure faith that his verbiage can alter the course of history. “We are here,” Obama said, “because others realized that we gain more from cooperation than conquest.” Well, actually, no — the United Nations exists because evil nations were forced through conquest to admit that cooperation might be a more advantageous strategy.
“While small gains can be won at the barrel of a gun,” Obama said, “they will ultimately be turned back if enough voices support the freedom of nations and peoples to make their own decisions.” Not exactly — millions of voices in North Korea have not altered the fate of those stuck in the world’s largest gulag, nor have millions of voices in Iran freed them of the tyranny of the mullahs.
“The ideology of ISIL or al Qaeda or Boko Haram will wilt and die if it is consistently exposed, confronted, and refuted in the light of day,” Obama spouted. If good argument killed bad argument, Islamism wouldn’t be on the march, but on the ash heap of history. Global politics, it turns out, is not a Harvard Law mock trial.
“We believe that right makes might,” Obama summed up, “that bigger nations should not be able to bully smaller ones, that people should be able to choose their own future.” Hogwash would be too kind a word to describe this sort of highfaluting idiocy — if right made might, millions of Jews would still populate Europe.
In reality, right dictates that right arm itself — right must become might in order to emerge victorious. Americans know that.
Because Americans know that, Obama must occasionally bow to reality. And so, in the same speech in which Obama called for Russian, Chinese and Syrian conflicts to be resolved through diplomacy, he uttered the most un-Obamaesque comment of his entire presidency with regard to ISIS: “The only language understood by killers like this is the language of force.”
This is eminently true. It is also so far out of Obama’s wheelhouse that he almost strained an oblique in making that statement. And, in fact, when polling doesn’t apply to him, Obama is happy to pressure other nations not to use the language of force — in the same speech, Obama pressured Israel to negotiate with its enemies, even though its enemies are of the exact same ilk as ISIS. If Obama does not bear a striking animus for the Jewish state, the best that can be said is that he wants Israel to be on the cutting edge of Western civilization’s rhetoric-first throat-cutting. After all, Obama tells Israel, too many Israelis are “ready to abandon the hard work of peace.”
Yes, the hard work of peace. With people who want to slit their throats.
That’s the real Obama, not the puffed-chest commander-in-chief threatening to bomb virtually everyone in virtually every country in the Middle East.
And that’s the problem. Lack of foreign policy comes from lack of belief in the principled use of force. And so Obama, the messianic narcissist, vacillates between two extremes: empty threats and pathetic wheedling. Neither works.
Obama believes he is the world’s savior. He thought Islam would start behaving, because he bowed to them. He blames others now that Utopia has not developed from his spoken words. Obama is insane, and he rules by executive order.
“The Throat-Clearing President vs. the Throat-Cutting Terrorists” — some say they are the same!
“Obama believes he is the world’s savior.”
Nah.
The ever-increasing number of atheists and other communists in the electorate think he’s the messiah for which the world has been waiting.
IMHO
WHEN is Congress going to step up to plate and impeach this bastard?
Under his watch America has lost face and influence all over the world and the world is worse off because of it.
He has brought PLAGUES to America.
He has allowed a foreign invasion to occur and actively facilitated the invasion.
He has refused to acknowledge terrorist attacks on our soil -
attacks of a most horrific nature.
He has provided aid and comfort to the enemies of America.
He has destroyed the nation’s health care delivery system.
He conducted a war against the religious faith of the overwhelming majority of Americans, promoting a foreign death cult of slavery, brutality, female abuse, and insanity.
On and on it goes.
This man is a plague upon the nation of truly Biblical proportions.
Nice take.
Observing Obama's activities leading up to the "non-war", he had no strategy b/c ISIL, beheadings and threats against America were not supposed to happen. He got caught with his pants down.
Obama stupidly thought he had done everything in his power to appease the jihadists:
<><> $2 billion funding to the Muslim Brotherhood,
<><> appointing the M/B to key WH positions;
<><> installing a dedicated Muslim outreach program;
<><> changing US law to allow "repentant" terrorists into the USA:
<><> calling Egyptian President al Sisi to leave the M/B alone
(al Sisi refused to take Obama's call and decimated the M/B).
<><> Obama/Hillary's "Kumbaya" deal in Benghazi---that went awry when four Americans were slaughtered.
In sum, this is brain-dead prog/lib's "Smart Power"....a slapdown of George Bush coined by Hillary Clinton....wherein being nice to your enemies is considered better than waging war against them.
Obama's not merely "not fighting terrorists"---he's inviting them into our communities....and forcing taxpayers to subsidize their evil deeds.
That about sums it up-—you didn’t forget a thing.
> That about sums it up-—you didn’t forget a thing.
He forgot the part about Moses asking the Phaoah to let his people go...: )
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled The Throat-Clearing President vs. the Throat-Cutting Terrorists, jsanders2001 wrote:
> That about sums it up-—you didn’t forget a thing.
He forgot the part about Moses asking the Pharoah to let his people go...: )
LOL-—you are right....that should have been included.
“he discussed a wide variety of threats to Western civilization”
Something tells me he forgot the primary threat: “progressivism” and the Democrat party.
Yep.
Wrong, that arrogant pos wants everyone to believe he’s the world’s savior. We know better, don’t we?
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