Posted on 11/13/2009 4:39:16 PM PST by markomalley
President Obama is in Asia - instead of at home making a key foreign-policy decision. He has said he will not clarify his strategy in Afghanistan until he returns Thursday, thereby further kicking the Afghan can down the road. This is an astonishing act of cowardice and dithering. Unless the president quickly turns around his political fortunes, his administration will be mired in failure.
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Mr. Obama has had more than enough time to make a decision on how to proceed. Yet the administration is paralyzed; there are a variety of conflicting voices. Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. supports a smaller military footprint that relies on drone attacks and U.S. Special Forces. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton wants to grant Gen. McChrystal's request. Mr. Obama explores hybrid alternatives. He remains unsure and indecisive; he cannot pull the proverbial trigger.
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I could not of said it any better.
If I were an external enemy of America - now would be the time I would choose to attack American interests around the globe. The horses ass in the White House is one dithering narcisstic fool!! He will not defend this nation!!
This asshole is galavanting around the globe again for no damn good reason and still won’t make a decision about Afganistan. Seriously, isn’t there some way he can be charged with dereliction of duty or malfeasance in office?
IMO, for several months now, all our soldiers killed and wounded in Afganistan have left their blood on Zero’s hands. He is to blame as are the members of Congress. We The People will show our wrath come next year.
I couldn’t help but notice the acronym. Very accurate, indeed.
Zero is a phony. Underneath the Mr. Cool facade is a scared little rabbit.
Zero is a phony. Underneath the Mr. Cool facade is a scared little rabbit.
It's not as if he wanted to win the War on Terror.
He wants to advance the conquest of Islam which he tells himself is an advance of "diversity". Since he disdains the Constitution, its incompatabilty with Shari'ia law does not bother him. Having two completely incompatible legal systems is "diversity" in his narcissistically, Marxisticallly muddled mind.
When will the reality be faced?
If he were but a 'ditherer', we would be the better for it.
There are three major theories to explain the President’s behavor:
dither, blither and slither. The dither == incompetent; blither == the deceitful leftist; slither == the pawn of dark forces.
all the individual theories can explain a variety of accusations but except in combination, cannot explain them all.
The problem is that one can’t be all three at the same time. The blither and slither theses imply a huge degree of steely nerve. A man who can talk himself into being President of the United States on false grounds, who can bluster his way past the institutions of the Republic will certainly not flinch at dealing with the President of Iran or Venezuela. So my vote is against dither. The balance of probability suggests he is a very skillful left wing operator, whose allies are largely and maybe entirely domestic; though I suppose one should never be willing to rule out the possibility he’s made a deal with some dark force. But it is enough for the purposes to suppose the President is a skillful left-wing politician.
The problem is that left-wing political skill translates disastrous governance. Being good at leftism means being bad at running anything productive. Who would doubt that Chavez and Tony Blair were skilled left wing politicians? But as time goes by we can see that they effectively undermined what should have been unshakeable countries: one a country floating on oil; the other sustained by a skilled population with a long history. Yet neither Venezuela nor the UK were impervious to leftist “skill”. The left has reduced what should naturally have been the regional leaders to regional basket cases. North Korea has made a mockery of Korean industriousness; Cuba of the brilliance of its people. Even Germany could be reduced to squalor by Eastern Bloc. Leftist skill is virtuosity at the wrecking-ball.
It is more than an academic point. Barack Obama’s nature as a skillful leftist politician suggests the depth of the problem. It would be more comforting if he were a dither or a slither; because then he would be an isolated case. A one-off. Somebody who lucked out and made it past the gatekeepers. But Obama the blither is altogether more frightening. He is not alone. A large part of the electorate believes in what he aspires to. The gatekeepers put him there, at least some of them. Even if Obama were to resign tomorrow, another blithering politician would instantly rise to take his place. Because there’s more where that came from.
This suggests that the story of Barack Obama as it unfolds won’t be the drama of a single man, but the saga of an entire era. Barack Obama and the forces which oppose him are, I like to imagine, representative of the same kind of drama being played out all over the Western world. America as in many other things, is at the leading edge of vast political issues. We are either watching the triumph of the great world religion of socialism or seeing it fall apart. That crisis is distilled and focused in Barack Hussein Obama. Much has been made of the symbolism of his syncretic personality as a token of American racial contradictions. In truth he is the symbol of a far more universal conflict; one older even than slavery on the North American continent.
It may be a drag to live through this era of conflict. But from an historical point of view, we have got ringside tickets to the greatest show in seventy years. Since we can’t leave the Garden we should guzzle up the Jolt Cola and watch the match, conscious that it may spill out into the seats and become every man for himself. They will be talking about these years, those who survive it, for a very, very long time. http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/10/29/pick-a-number/#comments78 There are exceptional dangers ahead for us over the next couple of years and they will be seen on a number of fronts, all with a single unifying goal.
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