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!
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.
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.
O/T: Are we prohibited from posting articles from HP? I understand it’s usually garbage, but are they in Stormfront territory now?
Given the hoops Bush jumped through before Iraq, the ‘cowboy’ era hasn’t started until The Imperial Presidency of Baraq I.
To clarify, in Europe, because of Hollywood movies, Americans are thought of as either “cowboys” or “gangsters”, and oddly enough, there is some truth in this.
The American heartland is all cowboy, with the attitudes of individualism, hard work, freedom and liberty, prosperity; and importantly, dealing with problems when they are small, so they don’t become big. They are the substance of conservative republicanism.
The big cities are the realm of the gangsters. Big city machines, corruption, and a top down organized crime type hierarchy, where everything is for “the big boss”, who then rewards his friends and punishes his enemies. Theirs is the realm of liberal Democrats.
In any event, Europeans have been so beaten down by 1500 years of war that they prefer a miserable and slowly declining status quo to fixing problems. They reject the very idea of decisive action, and prefer committee meetings and inaction.
Left to them, they would always bow down to tyrants no matter how horrible they behaved. The trouble with this theory that instead of nipping things in the bud, by the time they *have* to act, the only way left to act is by slinging nuclear weapons at whoever.
To America’s advantage, at least the eastern Europeans have more sense. For years under Soviet oppression, they saw western Europe quite content to leave them in bondage; with only America continually pushing for their freedom.
But to America’s friends and enemies alike, American foreign policy under Democrats is a disaster, whimsical chaos by the Democrat “big boss”, who will sit on his thumbs, then throw a few missiles and declare victory.
Bronco Bama - who said he doesn’t carry the capacity and dignity to be a wartime leader?
Just about everybody who ever studied his background. “Cunning” and “daring” are not adjectives that come quickly to mind.
Benito Mussolini had him beat on both scores. And he still wound up hanging from a lamp post.