Posted on 08/12/2014 1:11:35 PM PDT by Starman417
Edited on 08/12/2014 1:29:04 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
He's been called aloof. He's been called detached. He's been said to dither. They were all correct. Now you can add paralyzed to that list. His worst nightmare (and ours, BTW) has arrived. ISIS is marching across Iraq. Despite their inhuman atrocities, Obama cannot call them the enemy. He's not interested in defeating them and the Washington Post says Obama lacks a coherent strategy. ISIS needs to be pulverized, but Obama is nowhere to be found.
It's finally happened. Obama can't make a decision. He can't make a decision because he is not a leader. He is a community organizer. He is used to stoking the fire and sitting back, waiting for the dust to settle and then taking the noble position just as he did in Chicago when he voted "present" 129 times. The leader of the free world cannot afford that luxury. It's so bad that even Obama suck-up Dana Milbank noticed.
Obama is still good at bullying American citizens, "Chokepointing" their legal businesses.
Now the world is seeing what the Obama doctrine really is and what he meant by "Don't do stupid [stuff]." What he meant is "don't do anything that might make me look bad."
We've had warnings:
It’s embarrassing when President Barack Obama’s risk-averse refusal to engage foreign-policy issues becomes so obvious that it’s a laugh line for the president of Iran.
Barack Obama is a “dithering” president whose controlling tendencies and extreme risk-averse attitude to foreign policy has damaged American interests in the Middle East, according to a new book by a senior former State Department adviser.The insider account of the damaging divisions between the White House and the State Department comes as diplomats wait to see if John Kerry, the new US secretary of state, can persuade Mr Obama to show greater engagement on Syria, Egypt and the wider Middle East.
Vali Nasr, a university professor who was seconded in 2009 to work with Richard Holbrooke, Mr Obama’s special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, records his profound disillusion at how a “Berlin Wall” of domestic-focused advisers was erected to protect Mr Obama.
“The president had a truly disturbing habit of funnelling major foreign policy decisions through a small cabal of relatively inexperienced White House advisers whose turf was strictly politics,” Mr Nasr writes in The Dispensable Nation: America Foreign policy in Retreat.
But he has grown increasingly risk-averse when it came to the truly complex challenges: Iran, Israel, and of course, Syria.Here the sheer complexity and difficulty of the issues and his fear of failure has tempered the president's enthusiasm for serious engagement. The political risks of fighting with the Israelis on settlements or appeasing the Iranian regime on the nuclear issue took care of the rest.
Back in 2010 I wrote:
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
I've heard these thoughts echoed in other quarters, usually accompanied by comments about radical Muslim infiltration of highest levels of this administration..................
*BEEEEP*
"Hullo V-J, how's Iraq doin' today? ... Val? ..... VAL ??"
If you look at it a certain way, inept, incompetent, and lazy, describe him incredibly well.
Kinda hard for Barry to answer the phone when Reggie’s hairy little pole is planted in his kisser.
I’m using that for my tag line. It’s brilliant!
YES!!! that is correct! He said that when (not a quote) push comes to shove BO will stand with the Muslims/Islam!
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