Oh stop that now!
Stop it!
This empire is much too silly!
Posted on 10/08/2015 11:24:32 AM PDT by Lorianne
couldn't help but notice that over the past few weeks the Empire has become extremely silly—so silly that I believe it deserves the title of the World's Silliest Empire. One could claim that it has been silly before, but recent developments seem to signal a quantum leap in its silliness level.
The first bit of extreme silliness surfaced when Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, the head of the United States Central Command, told a Senate panel that only a very small number of Syrian fighters trained by the United States remained in the fight—perhaps as few as five. The tab for training and equipping them was $500 million. That's $100 million per fighter, but that's OK, because it's all good as long as the military contractors are getting paid.
Things got even sillier when it later turned out that even these few fighters got car-jacked by ISIS/al Qaeda in Syria (whatever they are currently calling themselves) and got their vehicles and weapons taken away from them.
But it was Putin's speech that laid out the Empire's silliness for all to see when he scolded the US for making a bloody mess of the Middle East with its ham-handed interventions. The oft-repeated quote is “Do you understand what you have done?” but that's not quite right. The Russian «Вы хоть понимаете теперь, чего вы натворили?» can be more accurately translated as “How can you even now fail to understand what a mess you have made?” Words matter: this is not how one talks to a superpower before an assembly of the world's leaders; this is how one scolds a stupid and wayward child. In the eyes of the whole world, this made the Empire look rather silly.
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Feckless, irresponsible, juvenile liberal leadership always leads to an epic fail. Since our (P)resident is a product of wishful thinking and affirmative action who was elected merely because of the color of his skin it is compounded exponentially.
Gosh.
Remember when we used to have a President?
Wasn’t that great.
Now, we have Obama who has his paid-liar Josh Earnest making snide remarks about Putin.
Not a good idea.
And having Earnest do this really makes Obama look chicken.
I suppose Valerie Jarrett is putting a warm washcloth on Obama’s forehead and telling him to ignore those mean Russians.
Lest I be sucked into another depressing review of their mud-pie antics in the Middle East, let us simply toss out a few country names: Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran...the tale is too depressing to expand. No, to answer Mr. Putin, no, this team of drooling idiots does not know what a mess they've made, they're so used to addressing failure by renaming it as success and getting away with it in the media that they mistake it for reality.
Liberal? Yes, but also the GOP neocons like Bush, Rubio, McCain, and Fiorina are still on board with arming the “moderate” Syrians, and creating a “no fly zone” to protect them — even though there are only 4 or 5 of them.
Solution: Congress, if you want to fight ISIS and/or Assad, declare war like the Constitution says, and have our men do it. If not, do the prudent thing - stop arming al Queda and just GET OUT.
Sad, isn’t it....and the administration was elected TWICE by people who don’t have a clue.....frightening!!
my issue is that there ARE adults in the next room. For some reason, they continue to not just tolerate, but also condone these disastrous actions against the interests of what is presumably their own country.
At what point do they step in and say “no more of this!” What are they thinking????
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