Posted on 09/02/2013 7:10:10 AM PDT by Former Fetus
I see the Obama "reset" is going so swimmingly that the president is now threatening to go to war against a dictator who gassed his own people.
Don't worry, this isn't anything like the dictator who gassed his own people that the discredited warmonger Bush spent 2002 and early 2003 staggering ever more punchily around the country inveighing against.
The 2003 dictator who gassed his own people was the leader of the Baath Party of Iraq. The 2013 dictator who gassed his own people is the leader of the Baath Party of Syria. Whole other ball of wax.
The administration's ingenious plan is to lose this war in far less time than we usually take. In the unimprovable formulation of an unnamed official speaking to the Los Angeles Times, the White House is carefully calibrating a military action "just muscular enough not to get mocked."
That would make a great caption for a Vanity Fair photo shoot of Obama gamboling in the surf at Martha's Vineyard, but as a military strategy it's not exactly Alexander the Great or the Duke of Wellington.
And it's trickier than it sounds: I'm sure Miley Cyrus's choreographer assured her she was "just muscular enough not to get mocked," and one wouldn't want to see the U.S. reduced to twerking arrhythmically to no avail in front of an unimpressed Bashar Assad's Robin Thicke.
Okay, okay, that metaphor's as thinly stretched as Miley's talent, so what does unmockable musculature boil down to? From the New York Times: "A wide range of officials characterize the action under consideration as 'limited,' perhaps lasting no more than a day or two."
Yeah, I know, that's what Edward III said about the Hundred Years' War. But Obama seems to mean it:
(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...
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Thank you, it is too good an article to get distracted by a giant accordion.
The Devil (Obama) does not like being mocked.
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It works better in the large size, gives illusion of animation as you scroll. This would be a tough call for a competent president, but Obama has the skills of a garbage man approaching the table to perform brain surgery. No wonder everybody’s yelling “don’t do it.” He may get lucky by delaying and smoke out more regional support for damaging the Iran-Syria-Hezbollah axis.
I take exception to these articles that it is the U.S. that is subject to ridicule and error when it is Odungo’s alone.
I've emailed my congressmen and RINO senators, not that it will do any good.
Liberating Syria isn't like liberating the Netherlands: In the Mideast, the enemy of our enemy is also our enemyThat's a great pull quote.
>>The Devil (Obama) does not like being mocked.
“Mocked” sounds like cracker-speak. In Obama’s language, the correct word is “dissed”. Yes, America, we are about to do a multi-million dollar drive-by because someone dissed our gang leader.
When Assad’s 11 y.o. son ridiculed Zer0 I said to myself,’ Zer0’s gonna attack.
Zer0’s skin is about as thick as onion skin.
America has been mocked ever since the pansy socialist muslim took up the residency.
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I’m having a bunny with a pancake on it’s head moment.
DK
hussein would love to gas Americans. liberals, conservatives, it makes no difference to an islamist.
Steyn:
The administration’s ingenious plan is to lose this war in far less time than we usually take. In the unimprovable formulation of an unnamed official speaking to the Los Angeles Times, the White House is carefully calibrating a military action “just muscular enough not to get mocked....”
So what do we want in Syria? Obama can’t say, other than for him to look muscular without being mocked, like a camp bodybuilder admiring himself in the gym mirror....
Meanwhile, the hyperpower is going to war because Obama wandered off prompter and accidentally made a threat.
Like his patrons in Tehran and Moscow, Assad's reaction to U.S. threats is to double up with laughter and say, "Bring it, twerkypants."
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