Does this asshole realize he has to do something other then suck his damn thumb.
Baghdad must not fall.
“...Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower or Ronald Reagan might have thought the object of military action was simple: victory. But in Obama’s world “victory” is an obsolete word. And consequently there is no yardstick against which his military options can be meaningfully measured.
Much has been made of the president’s deployment of up to 375 troops in Iraq. Is that a small number or a big number? It depends. If Obama intends to “win” against his foes it is probably about 30,000 men too few. If he has no intention of winning against anybody and he is just using the men as a stopgap to kill time until the story goes away then it is 375 too many.
If you’re not going to “win” in some definable sense, why bother to play? President Obama has no coherent definition of winning, no metric of what it means to be ahead. The very notion of triumphing has somehow become evil. Instead he has raised process to an end it itself and plays a scoreless game in a world of local contexts. His goal is merely to be perceived as ‘engaged’ and acting ‘responsibly’ — whatever that means.”
http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2014/06/18/the-pretzel-man/#more-37485