Posted on 08/30/2013 11:54:45 AM PDT by Nachum
White House officials ratcheted up the rhetoric to unprecedented levels Friday as they try to rally international and public support for an airstrike in Syria, following rebuffs by friendly foreign governments and polls showing public skepticism over any intervention.
But Secretary of State John Kerry also hinted that the potential strike may be postponed for some time.
“President Obama will ensure that the United States of America makes our own decisions on our own timelines, based on our values and our interests,” he said.
The statement mixed calls for international solidarity with declarations that the U.S. would decide its own actions.
It included claims that the U.S. has a moral duty to respond to the attack with cold-blooded statements that the U.S. would act on its own interests.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
At the age of 69, John “Early Out” Kerry finds out about the real world.
Can you give a link? That IS an amazing quote.
Holey Moley....is there tape on CNN of Obama uttering this insanity?
The actual quote per the New Yorker:
Begin quote:
” President Obama floated a more modest strategy today, saying that any U.S. action in Syria would have “no objective whatsoever.”
“Let me be clear,” he said in an interview on CNN. “Our goal will not be to effect régime change, or alter the balance of power in Syria, or bring the civil war there to an end. We will simply do something random there for one or two days and then leave.”
“I want to reassure our allies and the people of Syria that what we are about to undertake, if we undertake it at all, will have no purpose or goal,” he said.
—End quote
WT.. ??? This reads like a SNL skit script!!
Obviously Obama has lost his teleprompter.
A purposeless action with no objective that will kill people.
Schlock and Naw
Astonishing.
***Give him a boat and a rifle and send him over there.***
He will come back with dozens of metals all awarded by himself!
Sand burrs in his feet, one metal for each one. Forehead Blisters from the Syrian sun, one metal for each blister.
“A purposeless action with no objective that will kill people.”
It’s OK, folks. This bombing will only be symbolic.
“It may take twenty-four hours, but it could also take twelve,”
“Maybe we get in there, take a look around, and get out right away. But however long it takes, one thing will not change: this mission will have no point. The President is resolute about that.”
In the meantime, this awkward photo of Secretary of State John Kerry and his wife dining with the Assads in 2009 has gone viral amidst Kerry's harshest criticism of the Syrian government to date. Describing the government's use of chemical weapons against civilians as a "cowardly crime" and a "moral obscenity," Kerry said, "There must be accountability for those who would use the world's most heinous weapons against the world's most vulnerable people."
The U.S. has a moral duty to it’s military to STFO! Someone should tell “Old Gengis Kahn” to go home to his ill-gotten gains, his tax free yacht, and he ugly a$$ed wife.
It is humor. See the history of the author and the classification of “Humor” at the bottom of the article.
I'd swear that he left an hour and half gap between cause (arty barrage) and alleged effect ("all hell broke loose").
If true, the argument that the MB and/or Saudis staged and filmed their "atrocity" after being shelled with conventional weapons gains some force.
“What is the strategic, operational, and tactical objective?”
Good analysis, sheik. I don’t know what Buckwheat’s objectives are. Maybe dress some prisoners in Polish uniforms to justify an invasion of Syria by the Wermacht? Who knows. I’ve discovered that my confusion about and dislike for Buckwheat grows exponentially day to day. We are living Idiocracy to our detriment. We need a divine shoehorn to extricate ourselves I think. Got a Biblical verse handy?
Senore’ kerry,
We don’t really give a damn if assad gasses his whole moose limb population.
Hell with em all
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