Amateur hour once again.
“Hold muh brain and watch this !”
They send Biden to fix the gaffe?
It appears that some in this administration are losing patience with the incompetence of the admin’s upper levels.
This is one of the very rare moments when I agree with someone from the Obama Administration. I’ve heard remarks like these before, “They don’t feel like Iraqi’s, they identify more as Sunni or Shia”, They haven’t gotten past this boxed in perception yet? Makes you want to let ISIS take them. The only problem to that is the continued strengthening of ISIS, and the acompaninying increased danger to all of the civilized world. Where are Big Boy and Little Boy when you need them, just to stomp those ISIS bugs out once and for all? We may have to resort to those measures. Or convince Saudi Arabia to do it.
He didn’t make a gaffe. He told the truth. The Iraqi army outnumbered the attackers at least two to one. They were defending their home turf.
They turned and fled, leaving their equipment.
Americans fought hard for that city. All they had to do was sit in defense and repel a far weaker attacking force.
But I guess we shouldn’t say the truth, that would be undiplomatic and might upset the world order. So best for Biden to apologize, hang medals on all the Iraqis that fled, and see if we can figure out how to get Americans to do it for them.
There was nothing to apologize for here. The diplomatic order is badly in need of some honesty.
Ashton Carter’s problem was that he broke the cardinal rule of Middle Eastern diplomacy — whenever anything goes bad there, blame it on the Jews.
This gives the world an opportunity to stage anti-Israel protests; liberal news outlets get to excoriate Israel for days at a time; and the U.N. gets to declare an anti-Israel resolution.
In contrast, blaming the Iraqi army makes no one happy.
Ashton Carter now needs to turn his talents to preparing a statement for when Baghdad falls that won’t offend anyone. If he can also manage to include some innuendos suggesting that Jewish ancestry in some of the Iraqi generals might have caused Iraq’s downfall, all the better.
Not to change the subject but where is Dirty Harry now days?
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