Posted on 08/31/2013 12:39:22 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
President Bush knew how to build a coalition
George W. Bush was widely mocked by the Left during the Iraq War, with liberals jeering at the “coalition of the willing,” which included in its ranks some minnows such as Moldova and Kazkhstan. Michael Moore, in his rather silly documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, went to great lengths to lampoon the Iraq War alliance. But the coalition also contained, as I pointed out in Congressional testimony back in 2007, Great Britain, Australia, Spain, Italy, Poland, and 16 members of the NATO alliance, as well as Japan and South Korea. In Europe, France and Germany were the only large-scale countries that sat the war out, with 12 of the 25 members of the European Union represented. The coalition, swelled to roughly 40 countries, and was one of the largest military coalitions ever assembled.
As it stands, President Obama’s proposed military coalition on Syria has a grand total of two members – the US and France. And the French, as we know from Iraq, simply can’t be relied on, and have very limited military capability. It is a truly embarrassing state of affairs when Paris, at best a fair weather friend, is your only partner. John Kerry tried to put a brave face on it at his press conference today, by referring to France “as our oldest ally,” but the fact remains that his administration is looking painfully isolated.
There can be no doubt that David Cameron’s defeat in the House of Commons was a huge blow to President Obama, and has dominated the US news networks this morning.
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The Narcissist in Chief is not going to take this very well.
The citizen of the world can’t control the foreign press like the American press.
At least Bush, who was continuously criticized for making the world dislike us, was regularly able to build sizable international coalitions of major and smaller nations for these types of military actions.
Do we have any reliable allies left?
Obama pretty much has ticked off the only real allies we had left, he’s even ticked off the Poles.
The chimp in chief and the American electorate are the laughingstock of the world.
If Bush was a chimp, what does that make Bacrock Obama? A chump?
Obama is a monkey with a hand grenade.
Obama’s Coalition of the Willies.
Woodrow Wilson was a better President than 0bama.
... and we know that is not easily done. ;-)
Today, even the Obama worshipers and low information voters are beginning to question Obama's obvious lack of coherence on foreign policy in the middle east. He looks foolish and for liberals, who never tire of telling us how brilliant Obama is, this show of incompetence is making them nervous. Well, that and the fact that a liberal generally hates the U.S. military and considers it little more than a tool of oppression, yada, yada, yada.
Obama will not receive congressional approval to attack Syria and he'll be off the hook he fashioned for himself with his tough talk about how 'Assad must go' and painting 'red lines' in watercolor.
some one gave the kids the keys to the ferrari, any surprise they wrecked it?
Would you want to ally yourself with the US, which quit Vietnam, quit Somalia, quit Iraq, quit Lebanon, is now quitting Afghanistan??? Would you want to pin your future to such an ally? Or would you hedge your bets as many Middle Eastern nations are doing? Would you be quick to jump on the American calls for military action, or be highly calculated and weigh the risks carefully?
The US is a nation where opposition politics and a very quick media/press cycle completely driven by controversy, influential social fads/trends (Which the likes of Michael Moore tap into), and a high political turn over with a constant changing strategic vision (there really is no US strategic vision in anything past 2 years that is worth the paper it is written on) drive foreign and security policy. Jump on the boat with the US, and 2 years later you might find yourself in the boat alone. It is ironic that those that played opposition politics under Bush (Obama, Kerry, Hillery, etc) are today singing a very different song.
Herbert Hoover was a better President than obama
William Henry Harrison was a better President than Obama....of course he only had a month to screw things up.
Thanks for the ping.
Obama seeking political cover by asking for a Congressional vote on Syria intervention
That speech today was even more of an embarrassment.
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You cross that line, and you’ll be sorry.
How so.
Well, try it and find out.
Okay, we did.
Uhh, I’ll get a coalition together.
Go ahead.
You’ll get yours, maybe today, maybe next week, maybe next month.
Yeah? Bring it on.
[Syria called his bluff and were laughing in the streets by the end of his speech. Of course, Chris Matthews will rate it the greatest bluff speech in the history of bluff speeches.]
Funny, I think they are both inept. Bush should have bombed those mountains in Afghanistan flat and left. Iraq never should have happened. Maliki a bigger thug than Saddam.
A pox on both of them for the lives they have shattered and the money wasted.
On the domestic front Bush was better, but he never vetoed any spending (well, maybe once)
I don’t trust any politicians. The only solution to our problems is to cut the size of government and the power these “public servants” have over us.
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