West Acts Like 'Bull in China Shop' in Middle East – Russian PM

Moscow Times ^ | 8/4/13

[katana]

The Department of State and CIA have been dominated at a staff level by Arabists and to some extent rabid antisemitism (before anyone cleverly comments that the Arabs are Semites too, I use that term in the limited sense of people who hate Jews) for decades. American support of Israel was maintained since the 1960's with enormous and broad support of the American people but in spite of constant efforts of the diplomatic corps and the national security apparatus to undermine it. Now with Obama in office there is really no one at the executive level to restrain them and the Muslim Brotherhood and closet Al Qaeda types are welcomed with open arms.

This disconnect between the sentiments of the vast majority of Americans, even most of those deluded enough to have helped elect the Pretender, and the government is leading us into a sort of foreign policy schizophrenia and helps explain why the effort to cover up the who's and why's of the Benghazi Massacre is running at a pitch a thousand times anything that occurred during Watergate. If the press was not so fully accomplice with the Democratic Party most people might notice how far things have gone and there could be hew and cry for heads to roll. As it is we are sheep being led to slaughter.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

“Except the Mythbusters proved that a bull in a china shop doesn’t actually knock anything over.

So there!”

Perhaps so, but Medvedev may be the little bird that told us about the 800 pound gorilla in the room. America can’t continue to kick at every dog that barks at it. You don’t have any dog in some fights. Sometimes, you’ll have to take the bull by the horns, and let sleeping dogs lie, before you’ve gone to the dogs.

Unfortunately, Obama is an albatross around your neck. He’s as stubborn as a mule. A leopard that can’t change his spots, and he’s turning America into a paper tiger. That’s what voters get, when they buy a pig in a poke. Fortunately, he’ll soon be a lame duck.

[esoxmagnum]

The author is correct, sad to say.

[DoughtyOne]

This seems to be the case to me also with regard to state. As for the CIA, I haven’t seen enough to make the case one way or another on this topic.

I do agree with your comments regarding push-back or the lack there-of.

[Spok]

Diplomacy goes on as it always has, with churlish name calling, posturing, feints, thrusts and parries, all of which have meaning to the experienced eye. Our president, however, and the gaggle of fools he chooses to surround himself with, stand wide-eyed, confused and mystified. Children living in a fantasy world, they fumble to find meaning in a reality they stubbornly refuse to accept. The emperor is not only unclothed, he’s clueless beyond comprehension.

[elcid1970]

Unfortunately for us, “the jig is up, the goose is cooked, the fat is in the fire, and the cat is out of the bag”.

(James Thurber, “The Thirteen Clocks”, 1950)

The late Bill Buckley once predicted that unseating Taiwan on the U.N. Security Council and replacing it with the Communist Chinese regime would be like a China in the Bull Shop.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

“...like a China in the Bull Shop.”

Good one!

[elcid1970]

That was Chairman Bill’s line.

Buckley on why Sen. Edward M. Kennedy refused to appear on “Firing Line”:

“Why does baloney reject the grinder!”

;^)

[AnalogReigns]

Suspect more Americans would find themselves agreeing with the Russian Foreign Minister than John Kerry, Obama’s Secretary of State...

Very true, and so sad.