Posted on 08/30/2013 12:46:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway
American-Led Strike in Syria Risks Return to Reckless Cowboy Era (Huffington Post article. I asked for and received Jim Rob's approval before posting)
This isn’t cowboy diplomacy, it’s rodeo clown diplomacy.
Liberals are in full propaganda mode. Cenk Uyger is blaming the republicans for pushing Obama into war and I got an email from democrats.org yesterday calling for protests against the republican rush to war.
I hope the liberals are happy living in Orwell’s 1984 world, they created it for themselves.
The closest Obama comes to a cowboy is that he is a cow patty.
Where’s the coalition?
Where’s the proof?
Where’s the U.N. Resolution?
Where’s the Congressional approval?
Where’s the sense of the American people?
Cowboy!
A$$wipe
I reject the analogy. Cowboys are not and were not ever “reckless.” One might say, an attack on Syria conjures up a reckless, naive leftist; or foolish hypocrite; perhaps recalls the freewheeling warmongering ways of Jengjis Kahnn...but let us leave the venerable Cowboy out of this one.
Ha! That’s the funniest thing I’ve read today!!
Even a rodeo clown puts himself in danger for the bull rider.
There never was a “Cowboy” period, that was a phrase made up on Daily Kos, and repeated endlessly by the TV, to further turn public opinion against Bush.
“Where’s the coalition?
Where’s the proof?
Where’s the U.N. Resolution?
Where’s the Congressional approval?
Where’s the sense of the American people?
Cowboy!”
You’ll note how quickly we’ve gone from “Obama must bypass Congress because of the Obstructionist Republicans!”, to “Obama must bypass the United Nations because of Obstructionist Russians!”
“rodeo clown diplomacy”
Watch out or the thought police will punish you for racist thought! “Rodeo clown” is clearly a “dog whistle” for “incompetent black man.”
Twenty years ago, that statement would have been so nonsensical that it could only have come from someone on an acid trip. Today, everyone here knows exactly what it means. Welcome to bizarro world.
think yersinia pestis...
True enuff, and rodeo clowns, out of necessity, are more competent in their jobs than Zero, lest they find themselves on the business end of the bull. If Zero screws up it’s his idealogical adversaries’ (Americans) fault.
Ah, I knew somehow Obama screwing this up like an effing fool would somehow be the Republicans’ fault.
I can add to that list:
I have publicly stated on these threads that I was wrong in supporting the Iraq war but that does not mean that the United States must get a UN resolution in order to wage war. This is what former president Jimmy Carter is quoted as saying in a companion thread; that if the United States were to bomb Syria without a UN resolution that act would be illegal. Nonsense! The United States is not required to seek United Nations approval to wage war.
We should never permit ourselves to be maneuvered into a position in which we explicitly or tacitly support that notion.
The President of the United States, however, is constitutionally required to seek a declaration of war from Congress. I am willing in the nuclear age when there may only be minutes to activate countermeasures against a missile strike to permit the president to act against an imminent threat. I think the 30 day provisions of the present law are reasonable but I concede that there is nothing in the Constitution authorizing this formula.
There is a danger in conservatives echoing the arguments of lefties like Obama and Biden from years ago merely to point out they are hypocrites. It is okay to point out their hypocrisies but it is not okay to adopt their assumptions about, for example, securing approval from the United Nations.
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