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Scarborough Defends 'No Strategy' Obama: 'Straight Out of The Art of War'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 08/29/2014 6:21:21 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Alexander the Great. Stonewall Jackson. George S. Patton. To this list of some of history's greatest military strategists, a new name must be added: that of Barack Obama. That is, if you agree with Joe Scarborough's take on President Obama's statement at yesterday's press conference that "we don't have a strategy yet" regarding possible attacks on ISIS in Syria.

According to Scarborough, speaking on today's Morning Joe, President Obama's "no strategy" statement was "straight out of The Art of War where when you were weak, you make your enemies think you were strong. When you were strong, you make your enemies think you were weak." It's what Scarborough would have done, he told viewers, if he were president. When Sam Stein said that he couldn't tell if Joe was joking, Scarborough assured him: "I'm serious. Dead serious . . . I am dead serious. I am not joking."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Philosophy; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: artofwar; barackobama; iran; joescarborough; markfinkelstein; morningdoh; morningjoe; newsbusters; nostrategy
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

21 posted on 08/29/2014 6:43:51 AM PDT by John 3_19-21 (First let me apologise for being white, and male.)
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To: ilgipper

0bama’s record on military strategy is worse than Adolf Hitler’s.


22 posted on 08/29/2014 6:44:04 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Actual Sun Tzu quote:

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

Sun Tzu

Read more at BrainyQuote.com

Well, Obama's got that part down pat. I guess we'll just have to sit back and see if ISIS comes through on their part.

23 posted on 08/29/2014 6:45:32 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What a maroon!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3195443/posts

‘That’s One Cold Bastard’: Scarborough Thinks Terrorists Intimidated By Obama’s Golfing [VIDEO]


24 posted on 08/29/2014 6:45:52 AM PDT by maggief
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Joe’s jealous that Todd has a pair- of presidential knee pads!


25 posted on 08/29/2014 6:58:15 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Scarborough thinks golf is a part of a brilliant thrust & parry global strategy.


26 posted on 08/29/2014 7:00:50 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What a load of bulls**t. One of these days, Obama is going to wet his pants and the American press will say he’s invented a new personal cooling system.


27 posted on 08/29/2014 7:02:10 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

More like straight out of “The Art of Weed Smoking”. F’ing clueless.


28 posted on 08/29/2014 7:04:41 AM PDT by TruthFactor (Tag-free, for now.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest; All
when you were weak, you make your enemies think you were strong

Right right this is the same strategy that the French used in 1940!
29 posted on 08/29/2014 7:05:50 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Shellback pollywogs! U.S.S. William H. Standley, CG-32 1977-80)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Somebody needs to get Joe Biden um Scarborough out of there.

While ISIS tears up the middle east we got the real “JV” squatting in the white house or playing golf.

Strong play weak. Weak play strong. Okay Okay but now what did Sun Tzu say about a lazy coward.


30 posted on 08/29/2014 7:12:45 AM PDT by Bailee
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To: Bailee

There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general:

(1) Recklessness, which leads to destruction;

(2) cowardice, which leads to capture;

(3) a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults;

(4) a delicacy of honor which is sensitive to shame;

(5) over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble.


31 posted on 08/29/2014 7:19:11 AM PDT by Bailee
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

There’s a significant difference between not having a strategy and not revealing your strategy to your enemy. Obama is clearly in the former camp rather than the latter.


32 posted on 08/29/2014 7:24:30 AM PDT by Bob
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

You do not undahstahnd grasshopper, we are clever beyond all
knowing- we have plahn so clever we don’t know what it is— but we never tell it.

Scarborough needs to lift his nose out of the coke. There. is. no. plan. And when/if there is one val jarrett will queer it to the enemy (her pals, and...obamaumaos). We have a former catholic convert to islam running the CIA now— for real, folks.

This will not wok.... like great wall of china— they will go around.


33 posted on 08/29/2014 7:28:11 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Scarborough, don’t you have a dead teenage intern in your office to clean up?


34 posted on 08/29/2014 7:39:13 AM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Yeah ... and “global warming” is responsible for cold weather too!


35 posted on 08/29/2014 8:25:49 AM PDT by The Duke ("Forgiveness is between them and God, it's my job to arrange the meeting.")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Obama has us totally fooled ...We think he is a gay ineffective narcissus when in fact he is a gay ineffective narcissus


36 posted on 08/29/2014 8:34:03 AM PDT by woofie
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Git your arse kikked daily and impress liebrals.

helluva way to run a gubamint, Joe.


37 posted on 08/29/2014 8:44:31 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: TruthFactor

Actually it is out of “Rules for Radicals”.

“The organizer goes with the action. His approach must be free, open-ended, curious, sensitive to any opportunities, any handles to grab on to, even though they involve other issues than those he may have in mind at that particular time. The organizer should never feel lost because he has no plot, no timetable or definite points of reference. A great pragmatist, Abraham Lincoln, told his secretary in the month the war began:
‘My policy is to have no policy.’” p165-166


38 posted on 08/29/2014 8:56:10 AM PDT by bakeneko
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The Art of Liberal War.

Instead of striking your Enemy when they are in wide open country, wait until they become entrenched after overwhelming the Defenders and seizing their Military Equipment.


39 posted on 08/29/2014 8:58:19 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

“The Art of Surrender” - Barack Obama, MMM

“The Art of Golfing Through Crisis” - Barack Obama, MMM

“The Art of Complete Buffoonery” - Barach H Obama, MMM

....

“Kung Fu” starring Barack H Obama, MMM

The master said “Snatch the pebble from my hand...”

“I don’t want the pebble, is this going to take long I got Reggie waiting in the limo for a round of golf” -BO


40 posted on 08/29/2014 8:59:59 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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