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The Foreign Policy of the Three Stooges
Townhall.com ^ | August 30, 2014 | John Ransom

Posted on 08/30/2014 7:34:11 AM PDT by Kaslin

The Middle East isn’t just a foreign policy problem; it’s another one of the man-caused disasters that has become the hallmark of the Obama administration’s version of Moe, Larry and Curly.

And the cause of the disaster is transparently clear: These stooges are all campaign and no common sense.

Because the amigos tres in this instance haven’t just been poor executives-- as they have shown in other policy-- they’ve been poor thinkers as well. That they are hurting Muslims in Iraq and the Middle East -- a group they say they stand in solidarity with-- is immaterial to them. Campaigning for these stooges has always come before common sense.

That’s why secretary of state John “Larry” Kerry-- who was for the Iraq war before he was against it while he was campaigning for president-- is secretary of state; and perhaps the worst secretary of state ever if you discount the last secretary of state, who also was for the Iraq war before she was against it.

“This is not a combat, boots-on-the-ground, operation in Iraq,” said Defense Secretary, Chuck “Curly” Hagel—another guy who was for the war before he was against it-- all while he ordered 130 more US boots on the ground.

So let’s just say that the campaign is never ending, and thus common sense is still quite uncommon with our foreign policy stooges.

So uncommon in fact that Barack “Moe” Obama can’t even admit what we all know to be facts.

When confronted with the fact that he promised to remove US troops from Iraq, then kept that promise, and then claimed he ended the Iraq War by removing the troops-- while really he was destabilizing the country—Moe had this to say:

“What I just find interesting is the degree to which this issue keeps on coming up, as if this was my decision,” said Obama about the decision to end the US troops that stabilized Iraq. “Under the previous administration, we had turned over the country to a sovereign, democratically elected Iraqi government. So let’s just be clear: The reason that we did not have a follow-on force in Iraq was because the Iraqis — a majority of Iraqis did not want U.S. troops there.”

Let’s just be clear, shall we?

It was Moe—and Kerry and Curly-- who claimed from the campaign trail in 2008 that Iraq was just a sideshow, the surge wouldn’t work, and that the real US troop surge needed to happen in Afghanistan. It was Moe—and Kerry and Curly -- who said the Bush administration made a mistake in not pursuing Osama bin Laden, like somehow bin Laden’s death would make a difference. It was Moe-- and Kerry and Curly -- who pulled troops out of Iraq after the surge worked and INTO Afghanistan, even though we know now that Moe— and Kerry and Curly -- didn’t want troops in either country.

So why are they sending troops in now?

Because they are stooges, that’s why.

I’m not sure what it is that these stooges think they are accomplishing for the Muslim world, or for America, but if Obama-- and Kerry and Curly—have something to offer in the Middle East besides an apocalypse now and more apocalypse later and even more apocalypse later still, they should cut the vaudeville routine.

Their slapstick is a painful substitute for statesmanship.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: 0bamaadmin; foreignpolicy; johnwhowasinnamkerry; oreignaffairs

1 posted on 08/30/2014 7:34:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Give the Troika the Piece Prize next year.


2 posted on 08/30/2014 7:38:22 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Kaslin

And just wait until Shemp runs in 2016!


3 posted on 08/30/2014 7:39:34 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: Kaslin

Why insult the Three Stooges in comparison to these soetoro bacterium?


4 posted on 08/30/2014 7:43:49 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Kaslin
Maybe he needs to stay on vacation.


5 posted on 08/30/2014 7:44:15 AM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: Kaslin

The Stooges were Americans, unlike the Tyrant and
his controllers ... who paid off the Congress
by making them, their staff, and their families,
specially EXEMPT, along with all Moslems.


6 posted on 08/30/2014 7:44:36 AM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: Kaslin

I protest! Comparing the Jay Vee administration to the Three Stooges does grave injustice to the sacred memory of the immortal trio.


7 posted on 08/30/2014 7:44:38 AM PDT by wdk535
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To: Kaslin



8 posted on 08/30/2014 7:55:41 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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Obama/Biden/Kerry as the Three Stooges. I like that image!!


9 posted on 08/30/2014 7:57:18 AM PDT by Rio (Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
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To: Rio

“Obama/Biden/Kerry as the Three Stooges. I like that image!!”
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Perfect!


10 posted on 08/30/2014 8:03:42 AM PDT by mongo141 (Revolution ver. 2.0, just a matter of when, not a matter of if!)
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To: Kaslin

At least Curly would smack Emil Sitka upside the head with a shovel once in a while. I wish 0bama or Kerry would do that to one of our enemies just once.


11 posted on 08/30/2014 8:05:06 AM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: Kaslin

"This house has sho' gone crazy!"

12 posted on 08/30/2014 8:06:16 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

That’s such a great scene. Never thought it would be comparable to our national state of affairs.


13 posted on 08/30/2014 8:47:14 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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