Posted on 09/05/2013 5:33:20 PM PDT by Kaslin
In my soon to be 77 years as a citizen of the United States of America, having lived through Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, the dark days of WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Watergate, 9/11 and all the other serious and profound events our beloved nation has been involved in over the last three quarters of a century, I have to say with all sincerity that I have never seen a president as confused, befuddled, impotent, insincere and as out of his depth as Barack Obama has become in dealing with the Syrian issue.
When you're the leader of the free world, you don't make statements you can't back up and you don't draw lines in the sand, watch your enemies cross them with impunity and go off and play a round of golf.
Obama painted himself and the nation into a corner with his “red line” statement and I truly believe he thought he would have unilateral international and domestic support only to find himself standing alone in the spotlight with egg on his face and a ticking political time bomb in his hand.
I don't believe he ever had any intention of going through Congress and only decided to do so when he was left without the support of traditional allies and the disdain of a war weary American public who have begun to feel that America cannot be the international police force who has to bear the brunt of every catastrophe.
I think Obama is taking the vote for military authorization to Congress to bail himself out, to buy some time, somebody to share the blame if all goes wrong. Obama had already positioned war ships. All that was left to do was give the order to fire the missiles and at the 11th hour, after being rejected by the British parliament and put off by the French, he started having second thoughts and reached for the life preserver.
I, for one, am glad that Obama - for whatever reason - political expediency notwithstanding, did not facilitate the missile attack as it would have been largely symbolic and cosmetic and as he had given Assad enough warning to move the weapons out of harms way would have done little if anything to rid the world of chemical weapons.
It's not that I think nothing should be done about weapons of mass destruction no matter where they're used in the world, but I believe it's not just the responsibility of the United States to enforce international law. If the civilized nations of the world shirk this duty, why should they think America should take on the job by itself?
America has done enough "sending signals", symbolic gestures, getting involved in situations that don't threaten our national interests or that of our allies.
America's leaders should guard their tongues well and not issue spur of the moment reactions and empty threats. Our bite should be a lot worse than our bark and a presidential warning should be a dire and solemn caution, issued only once and followed up with swift and decisive action, not some half-baked puff of bravado that nobody really takes seriously.
What little bit of credibility America had in the Middle East just went out the window Friday afternoon, as a president who let his ego overload his common sense backed down from a tin horned dictator of a third world country, or at least that's how it's viewed in that part of the world.
The mettle of a president and the people he surrounds himself with is not proven until push comes to shove. This nation has entered a new phase in the war on terror and our relativity in the rest of the world and the road is going to be long, rocky and dangerous.
It remains to be seen how this embarrassing situation will play out. Will the president seek the council of the more experienced advice available to him in Congress? Or, will he remain defiant and continue to go it alone.
You've cost America a great deal this past week, Mr. President.
How much more can we take?
What do you think?
Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.
God Bless America.
Will this finally be the tipping point with this clown? With both the Demokkkrat Party and the Liberal Media Whores?
bump
When a president goes around lying to absolutely everyone about absolutely everything then how is he to expect anyone to support him in anything?
To rid the world of chemical weapons by ... exploding them??? Only Obama is smart enough to propose that.
Destruction of chemical weapons requires special chemical plants and facilities that destroy components by a number of means; specific processes are tailored to the type of the chemical that has to be rendered safe. Those facilities are areas of highest danger, and they - and the neighborhood - are protected by every method that engineers can come up with. Cracking the case open in a middle of a city and letting the deadly liquids and gases flow wherever they may is not one of those technologies.
Wisdom and common sense just ooze from Charlie. Time when we had that sort of MAN in Congress from most parts of this great land. Now, not so much.
The Devil went down to DC,
He was looking for the soul of a nation to steal.
Correct. Instead you blame it all on an offensive video, and then fly off to Vegas for a fund raiser.
if anything it has exposed the antiwar hypocrites. i wish they would play tapes of kerry pelosi obama biden during the “bush” gulf wars over and over and over.
The rodeo clown is so narcissistic, he’s fine and the rest of the world has no credibility.
I’m in my mid-50’s and I’ve never lived in more frightening times. Obama may very well march the world into Armageddon. He’s too ignorant, arrogant and self-centered to know that’s what he might be doing.
Progressives lie and manipulate to achieve their agenda. Obama has lied about everything and now his lies have mounted to the point that people know that nothing he says is true.
The DC crowd always pretend that Obama isn’t a lying Sack of poop, but they know he is.
This war crap is Obama doing what the people who chose him, the NWO has demanded he do. He was promised great riches to do their bidding.
Thing is, they NWO has always been patient, but once they chose Obama, they got too excitted to push for much more too fast.
No matter what, the crap is going to hit the fan very soon.
When I was a kid Charlie Daniels was one of my heroes.
It’s kind of funny my two heroes as a kid were Charlie Daniels and Kenny Rogers. I thought they both made cowboys look really cool.
Although Charlie Daniels and Kenny Rogers made it cool to be a cowboy, the movie Brokeback Mountain ruined it. Now it’s embarrassing to say I’m from Texas while living in China, many Chinese just laugh and ask if I ever invited Bathouse Barry to a barn for some brokeback action?
I have to say with all sincerity that I have never seen a president as confused, befuddled, impotent, insincere and as out of his depth... Obama painted himself and the nation into a corner with his "red line" statement and I truly believe he thought he would have unilateral international and domestic support only to find himself standing alone in the spotlight with egg on his face and a ticking political time bomb in his hand.Hey, but wait, Obama sez he never laid out any 'red line' and his credibility isn't on the line -- he's half right about that.
I'm becoming a Charlie Daniels fan - he 'gets' it...
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