Posted on 09/16/2013 4:34:26 AM PDT by bestintxas
President Barack Obama has just experienced his "Mush From the Wimp" moment.
That infamous March, 1980, Boston Globe headline signaled the imminent political demise of Democratic President Jimmy Carter. It followed upon the equally infamous Killer Rabbit episode and came in the midst of the Iranian Hostage Crisis, the birth of ABC's NIghtline program and at the mid-point of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy's primary challenge to a sitting Democrat president. As Mr. Carter found, when your own media symcophants and political allies are mocking you, you're not in a good place.
So, now, with the Archangel Barack.
What has precipitated this perfect storm is, of course, the President's Syrian debacle of last week and, even more to the point, the US-Russia deal announced on Saturday. Mr. Obama has been neutered. This is dangerous.
Accepting Secretary of State John Kerry's resignation "to spend more time with Teresa" (whom God heal and bless) wouldn't fix it, either.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union and its empire, the greatest achievement of American diplomacy and arms in the last 40 years was the ejection of Russia from the Near East and Middle East. This was accomplished by Republican presidents. And Democrat presidents have largely reaped the benefits.
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Obama is an Imposter forced on America to kill it,
by Pelosi (by perjury) and the GOP (for Romney and Soros).
Except, I think Chamberlain really believed what he had done was good.
Everyone knows Obama f’d up.
I am glad he backed off. It is the best thing he has done as resident.
Well, I don’t know Obama told George just the other day, “that bombing Syria was all a fake move, it was all planned to get those WMDs and save the children.”
“Ah ah George, you can get off your knees now, don’t you have a follow-up question like, How great I am?”
Traitorobama is not a Chamberlain; Traitorobama is a Quisling, along with 65 million other traitors who voted for him.
Ya “fundamentally change” something that is good, and whaadya get??
SOMETHING THAT IS BAD.
Now, what is difficult with that kind of logic?? Just what don’t you get?
so this writer wanted the US bombing Syria?
and I thought our warships were on hand
I get that obama bungled it, but what should really have happened?
US people including me did not want to bomb Syria because we don’t give two hoots about that civil war and we for certain did not want to side with al quaida who we should still be killing whereever we find them
let the shiites and the sunnis kill one another,
let the shiites and the sunnis kill one another,
I think the lobbies realized this when 80% of Americans didn’t want it.
Putin saved his butt IMO
Obama needs more than an image change.
He needs to become a loyal American.
He needs to support only what is good for America.
He needs to be president of all America, not just his party.
He needs to be decisive, not rash and/or dithering.
He needs to become strong, not wimpy.
He needs to become manly.
He needs to be financially self-reliant - pay for his own vacations.
He needs to associate with people of high moral.
He needs to leave the Office better than he found it.
He needs to communicate concisely and clearly.
He needs to manage by policy.
He needs to develop a morally admirable character.
He needs to punish the corruption in his administration.
He needs to speak respectfully of America’s traditions.
He needs to understand why America IS exceptional.
He needs to speak respectfully of other politicians.
He needs to stop taking all the credit for the good works of others.
He needs to drop “I” from his rhetoric.
never gonna happen
Chamberlain is getting a bad rap.
Keep in mind, that Chamberlain is responsible for the Hurricane, Spitfire, and the RADAR line that enabled them win the Battle of Britain.
Can Obama point to ANY similar achievements.
Death Valley will be closed due to a July blizzard first.
Ejecting the Soviet Union I can agree with. It is deeply wrong and dangerous for the USA to seek to exclude Russia from the Middle East, where it has many legitimate interests and has played an important diplomatic and cultural role going back centuries.
Russia has far more legitimate business in the Middle East that we do. It's closer to her borders and has a direct impact on regional tensions that could be a threat to the Russian homeland. As the most important Orthodox power, and historical bulwark of Europe from Islam, Russia also has the historical role of sponsor and protector of Eastern Christians. The USA's traditional policy has been astonishment at the discovery that indigenous Christians exist at all in that part of the world. They are so different from mainstream American notions of Christianity, infected by Reformation heresies and Americanist Catholicism, that there's no meaningful degree of American sympathy or understanding for the Eastern Christian experience and position.
To top it off, America's history and geography conspire to render foreign affairs...really, really foreign. We are low information players, only intermittently interested, and almost always misunderstand the hearts and minds of our interlocutors abroad. We abuse the people we're trying to help, and are routinely rolled by crooks and con artists who lead us blundering into folly and dishonor. George Washington was quite right to counsel against excessive overseas involvement: we are really not very good at it.
THE CHARADE OF THE ACCORDS PUTIN/OBAMA/ASSAD ANALIZED BY CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
So much for Obama’s repeated insistence that Assad must go. Indeed, Putin has openly demanded that any negotiation be conditioned on a U.S. commitment to forswear the use of force against Assad. On Thursday, Assad repeated that demand, warning that without an American pledge not to attack and not to arm the rebels, his government would agree to nothing.
This would abolish the very possibility of America tilting the order of battle in a Syrian war that Assad is now winning thanks to Russian arms, Iranian advisers and Lebanese Hezbollah shock troops. Putin thus assures the survival of his Syrian client and the continued ascendancy of the anti-Western Iranian bloc.
And what does America get? Obama saves face.
Some deal.
As for the peace process, it has about zero chance of disarming Damascus. We’ve spent nine years disarming an infinitely smaller arsenal in Libya — in conditions of peace — and we’re still finding undeclared stockpiles.
Yet consider what’s happened over the last month. Assad uses poison gas on civilians and is branded, by the United States above all, a war criminal. Putin, covering for the war criminal, is exposed, isolated, courting pariah status.
And now? Assad, far from receiving punishment of any kind, goes from monster to peace partner. Putin bestrides the world stage, playing dealmaker. He’s welcomed by America as a constructive partner. Now a world statesman, he takes to the New York Times to blame American interventionist arrogance — a.k.a. “American exceptionalism” — for inducing small states to acquire WMDs in the first place.
And Obama gets to slink away from a Syrian debacle of his own making. Such are the fruits of a diplomacy of epic incompetence.
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