Posted on 09/08/2015 2:47:35 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
This blistering editorial at the Washington Post carries the headline, “Obama’s Syria Achievement,” which is not complimentary, to say the least. Fred Hiatt, the editor of the editorial page, excoriates Barack Obama not just for the humanitarian disaster — genocides, really — in Syria, but for fundamentally transforming America into a defeatist nation. We used to care when genocides occurred, Hiatt argues, sometimes inconsistently and with unintended consequences for our interventions. But Obama offered the nation a new course — despair:
Obama — who ran for president on the promise of restoring the United States’ moral stature — has constantly reassured Americans that doing nothing is the smart and moral policy. He has argued, at times, that there was nothing the United States could do, belittling the Syrian opposition as “former doctors, farmers, pharmacists and so forth.”
He has argued that we would only make things worse — “I am more mindful probably than most,” he told the New Republic in 2013, “of not only our incredible strengths and capabilities, but also our limitations.”
He has implied that because we can’t solve every problem, maybe we shouldn’t solve any. “How do I weigh tens of thousands who’ve been killed in Syria versus the tens of thousands who are currently being killed in the Congo?” he asked (though at the time thousands were not being killed in Congo). …
Most critically, inaction was sold not as a necessary evil but as a notable achievement: The United States at last was leading with the head, not the heart, and with modesty, not arrogance.
In other words, Obama made Americans feel good about standing aside and watching genocides take place. Glenn Reynolds argues that this is entirely too kind — and that inaction in one sphere has been met with destabilizing action elsewhere in a perfect storm of incompetence:
And even this is too kind. The “red line” fiasco was a signal that nobody needed to pay attention to U.S. views. The Iraq withdrawal was, in fact, predicted to be a disaster, and took place against the advice of the generals. And the Libya disaster was a war-of-choice, in violation of a disarmament deal we’d already made with Khaddafy.
The war of choice on Libya is an interesting contrast to Hiatt’s indictment, and poses an uncomfortable question about Obama’s strategy, to the extent he has one. Obama balked at intervening in Syria against Bashar al-Assad, one of the main allies for the Iranian mullahs in the region. He had no trouble ordering military strikes on Qaddafi despite the agreement we had reached on nuclear disarmament. In that case, the US and NATO warned that Qaddafi was about to attack a civilian population, but subsequent events demonstrate that Benghazi was no quiet hamlet of peaceful dissent; it was a hub for the terror networks that aligned with al-Qaeda then, and align with ISIS now.
In contrast, Assad had already begun massacring his own people, and even used chemical weapons to do so. Yet Obama hesitated so long to respond to it, and offered such a half-baked military action, that Congress balked at the plans and forced him to stand down. Both countries are now failed states where terror networks flourish. We might have saved Libya by the inaction that Obama preaches elsewhere, and we could have prevented the rise of ISIS had we stayed engaged in Iraq.
Why was Obama so quick to attack a dictator dealing with the West, and so quick to disparage intervention against a dictator aligned with Iran? Was Obama that desperate to get a nuclear deal with Tehran that he and his team — which includes Samantha Power and Susan Rice — were willing to tolerate genocides in order to get it? If so, tremendous amounts of blood and treasure have been spilled for a 15-year delay at best on an Iranian nuclear weapon. That’s one hell of an achievement, all right.
The Washington Compost? Seriously? Well good I love it when Liberals eat their own!
And its true
Freegards
LEX
Sure. Why not? He can't run for President again.
Notice that the Compost was all in for the Kenyan Bastard back in 2008 and '12 ...
I guarantee they'll endorse whatever piece of puke the democrat party burps up in 2016.
Well, actually, Obama didn’t just neglect the Syrian crisis. He took a large part in causing it. He sides with the terrorists.
"Let us give Iram the bomb. Iran the Bomb. Iran the Bomb."
This cartoonist believes that obama will earn the nobel peace prize for allowing Iran nuclear weapons to be used to kill millions of people.. He is generally left of normal people with common sense.
Sack cartoon: Obama’s Peace Prize
http://www.startribune.com/sack-cartoon-obama-s-peace-prize/324528641/
Bio
http://www.startribune.com/steve-sack/10645851/
Obama, Clinton and Kerry. Their “arab springy” thingy was the beginning of this mass invasion of all of the capitalist countries. Send them to whitey’s house and order a bunch of race cards. This whole thing was planned and Obama was a key player. IMHO. I guess there is not much we can do about it now. The sheep are on the move and “hundreds” of people living in this country (Not Americans) are signing “petitions” to bring them here. Another failure of Obama’s intelligence guys. Obviously, they didn’t see this coming.
Stoke the fires of racial unrest.
Import Muslims.
Decontrol the Southern border, and have ICE act as delivery men.
Homo/Trans form the US military while cutting troops, equipment, training and care.
He hopes that everything blows up, so he can declare martial law and seize power.
Politicians, all of them without exception, define as morality as those actions that advance their political agenda, usually reelection of themselves. They are the most vacuous humans on the planet. Obama only stands above the rest as his narcissist personality and commitment to Marxist ideology. The American people, who elected this dysfunctional lunatic, deserve everything that comes from their choice, but the millions of the rest of the Earth who will die as a result do not. Shame on all of us.
These clowns will go down as the worst Administration in American history.
L
From Obama’s viewpoint, the policy is a complete success, simultaneously making the US appear utterly feckless, and creating a refugee crisis to Cloward-Piven Europe.
Some of the comments below the article are priceless, I give this one high marks:
change_happens60
1:59 PM PDT
Obama brought the left, the far left and disappointed republicans to Hope and Change. While to Muslims, Christians, unemployed, college aged youth he’s brought death and poverty.
Think of the 10’s of thousands of Muslims killed by Obama’s ineptitude.
Think of the 10’s of thousands of Christians being slaughtered by nihilistic predators Obama called the JV team.
Think of the lost hundreds of billions misspent on Obama fantasies on green energy, welfare to the .01%’ers on Wall Street.
Think of the people never knowing what its like to have a job because Obama has crack pot economic theories....proven wrong 100 years ago.
Obama.....a disaster in the making for generations....a disaster for the planet for future generations.
At the rate we're going, they may go down as the LAST Administration in American history....
Ask Valerie Jarrett - I'm sure this whole Iran negotiation has been her baby.
SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Jarrett
Jarrett was born in Shiraz, Iran, to American parents James E. Bowman and Barbara Taylor Bowman.
It also says, as a child, Jarrett spoke Persian and French.
Well, there ya go, she has some sympathy with her country of birth.
Not really. They’re criticizing him for not taking out Assad, but he actually tried to do so, mostly by funding the very same radical Muslims that Assad was trying to shut down. These groups later morphed into ISIS.
GWB haters here will be happy to know that we’re not talking nation building, unless you want to build the caliphate. Which is obviously Bambi’s objective.
He owns the Syrian disaster, the Libyan disaster, the Iraq disaster, the Iran disaster and a major portion of the U.S. debt disaster. General Disaster, commander-in-chief. I give him negative 5 stars.
Well, he got some of it right
No mention of that freaking geopolitical strategic genius Valerie Jarrett
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