Posted on 03/04/2014 10:14:54 AM PST by Jarhead9297
"Vladimir Putin seized Ukraine's Crimean peninsula on Thursday, and Barack Obama delivered a short statement about it on Friday. The former tells us nothing we didn't know already about Russia's strongman. The latter tells us everything we need to know about a weak president's feckless foreign policy. Let's take a look at what Mr. Obama had to say:
"I also spoke several days ago with President Putin, and my administration has been in daily contact with Russian officials."
"OK, but why? What's the point of talking if you won't even make use of what's said? On Oct. 18, 1962, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko visited President Kennedy in the Oval Office and told him that the Soviet Union would never deploy offensive military capabilities in Cuba. This was a lie, as Kennedy already knew, and four days later he called Gromyko out on the lie in his famous "quarantine" speech, usefully embarrassing the Soviets and rallying U.S. public opinion at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis."
(Excerpt) Read more at m.us.wsj.com ...
good work
True..... even if you do not know what "feckless' means.. IT JUST SOUNDS NASTY..
I encourage using the word "FECKLESS" at every opportunity..
".... FECKLESS ......"
We could use the new word “fecklitas” to describe the Won...
I'm pretty sure it means "not worth a feck".
That, or “who gives a feck?”
Took the words out of my mouth!!!
If we listen to these neocons and get tough with Putin, we'll all be totally "fecked".
So we should roll over for him? We should accept American irrelevance gracefully? You're on the wrong board, pal, if you expect anyone other than the normal "useful idiots" and posters with Russian mail-order spouses to agree with your paean to Obama's new weakened America!
Now there’s a picture and word match if I ever saw one. He’s a good representative of this “feckless” admin.
If you were married to that, you would’nt, ahem, do it, either.
Exactly. Plus a whole lot more stuff than just Benghazi.
The neocons are desperate. They're rolling out the same phrases they sputtered when their designs for war in Syria were dashed. (You forgot to cry "Munich!")
I got news for you, FRiend - America SHOULD be irrelevant in this spat between Russia and "Ukraine"!!! You don't know who those mobs were who overthrew the elected government of Ukraine. They're probably no more legit than the terrorists McCain wanted us to support in Syria.
Now, why don't you listen to the people of Crimea rather than the lunatics from the Claremont Institute, the Washington Post, and the Georgian gangsters who bought John McCain?
I don’t know about feck but this presidency is CERTAINLY NOT drekless. It has more than enough drek.
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