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Are You Syrious?
TIME ^
| September 1, 2013
| by Joe Klein
Posted on 09/01/2013 1:05:19 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
This President has shown a unique ability to make the correct foreign policy judgments in the worst possible way.
Barack Obama has had a very embarrassing time of it over Syria — and the trouble stems from a problem I’ve written about before: He continues to make pronouncements that he doesn’t really intend to carry out. His “Mubarak Must Go” was the start — and he got lucky there, since Muburak went, as a result of the Egyptians wanting him to go. He was also lucky with “Gaddafi must go”, achieving the desired result with a maximum of international support and a minimum of U.S. force. “Assad Must Go” hasn’t worked so well, and chemical weapons as a “red line” has been an absolutely disaster for American — read: Obama’s — credibility, compounded by subsequent statements like “a shot across the bow.”
(Excerpt) Read more at swampland.time.com ...
TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: arabspring; failure; iran; israel; leadingfrombehind; lebanon; maheralassad; redline; russia; syria; thebrotherdidit; unitedkingdom; waronterror
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Losing Joe Klein for Obama is like losing the black vote.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
...the teleprompter doesn’t have it’s papers in order, so it’s passport has been pulled....
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posted on
09/01/2013 1:07:15 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
09/01/2013 1:09:07 PM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
pretty amazing coming from Joke Lein
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posted on
09/01/2013 1:10:14 PM PDT
by
bigbob
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
09/01/2013 1:14:25 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I'm surprised progressives have stayed with Obama's war-mongering this long. Maybe Obama asserting that "Snowden's a traitor" and our loss of freedoms is a little much for them.
Has Obama done ANYTHING that would give progressive a reason to support him?
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posted on
09/01/2013 1:15:40 PM PDT
by
grania
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Joe Klein hasn’t a clue what is the right thing to do. You could sum this article up as: Bill Clinton was my favorite smart crook, but, much as I love him, Barack Obama is a dumb crook.
All Klein cares about is that his beloved crooks succeed, regardless of how evil their projects are.
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posted on
09/01/2013 1:16:59 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
It looks like he will fall flat on his face and start a war that will will end with Israel defending itself and having to nuke Damascus. Iran will jump them also and probably Egypt.
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posted on
09/01/2013 1:20:16 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Barack Obama has had a very embarrassing time of it over Syria Psychopaths are incapable of feeling embarrassment.
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posted on
09/01/2013 1:21:06 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Without the Right to Life, all other rights are meaningless.)
To: Slyfox
So true!!! My sister in law is completely incapable of feeling shame unless she calculates that by ACTING. certain way will advance herself.
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posted on
09/01/2013 1:27:21 PM PDT
by
autumnraine
(America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
To: grania
He has done a lot for the gay community.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Ubama wants to implement policies over which he has no apparent control so that he can campaign against them.
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posted on
09/01/2013 1:29:49 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(When your policy is to rob Peter to pay Paul, you can count on enthusiastic support from Paul.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
How’s the circulation doin’ Joe ?
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posted on
09/01/2013 1:31:40 PM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
To: Oldeconomybuyer
This President has shown a unique ability to make the correct foreign policy judgments in the worst possible way.
What in the name of Sam Hill does that sentence mean?
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posted on
09/01/2013 1:32:24 PM PDT
by
Fungi
To: Fungi
Good question. Sounds like “Well, I don’t think so but I doubt it’’. Or this New Jersey gem; “He thinks who he is’’.
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posted on
09/01/2013 1:40:05 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
To: Cicero
Joe Klein used to be a theater critic for The NY Slimes.
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posted on
09/01/2013 1:41:34 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
To: Jim Robinson
Obama is a rodeo clown.Or as I saw on some one's tag line - "The wrong clown has been banned !"
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posted on
09/01/2013 1:42:48 PM PDT
by
llevrok
("It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words....." - Geo. Orwell)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Obama follows one of my favorite Dilbert dictums for life survival -
"Never be in the room when a decision is made."
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posted on
09/01/2013 1:45:53 PM PDT
by
llevrok
("It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words....." - Geo. Orwell)
To: jmacusa
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posted on
09/01/2013 1:46:53 PM PDT
by
llevrok
("It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words....." - Geo. Orwell)
To: llevrok
LOL! Yes, the firm possibility of a definite maybe!
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posted on
09/01/2013 1:54:34 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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