What? Me worry?
Posted on 09/06/2013 9:31:19 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Senator Bob Corker: “What is it you’re seeking?”General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: “I can’t answer that, what we’re seeking.”
— Senate hearing...September 3
We have a problem. The president proposes attacking Syria, and his top military officer cannot tell you the objective. Does the commander-in-chief know his own objective? Why, yes. “A shot across the bow,” explained Barack Obama.
Now, a shot across the bow is a warning. Its purpose is to say: Cease and desist, or the next shot will sink you. But Obama has already told the world — and Bashar Assad in particular — that there will be no next shot. He has insisted time and again that the operation will be finite and highly limited. Take the shot, kill some fish, go home.
What then is the purpose? Dempsey hasn’t a clue, but Secretary of State John Kerry says it will uphold and proclaim a norm and thus deter future use of chemical weapons. With a few Tomahawk missiles? Hitting sites that, thanks to the administration having leaked the target list, have already been scrubbed of important military assets?
This is risible. If anything, a pinprick from which Assad emerges unscathed would simply enhance his stature and vindicate his conduct. Deterrence depends entirely on perception and the perception in the Middle East is universal: Obama wants no part of Syria.
Assad has to go, says Obama, and then lifts not a finger for two years. Obama lays down a red line, and then ignores it. Shamed finally by a massive poison-gas attack, he sends Kerry to make an impassioned case for righteous and urgent retaliation — and the very next day, Obama undermines everything by declaring an indefinite timeout to seek congressional approval.
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obama is and has been absolutely pathetic
Shot across the bow my ass. Obama is an absolute idiot.
As for kraut’s last sentence... Congress should say NO regardless.
He dithered and dithered, then reluctantly went along with the surge (while beating his chest) and simultaneously told the world of the exact date and time when the US would withdraw from Afghanistan.
Obama’s incompetence is astonishing, and there is example after example which establishes a clear pattern.
What? Me worry?
Well, that does confirm what we've suspected all along. The real difficulty with a celebrity, cardboard cut-out President is that he's only playing the role, and there's a very great difference between playing President and being one.
I watched his presser this morning - gosh, he was almost unintelligible, repeating “proportional” ten times - and what does tht even mean...are we going to kill 1400 syrians with sarin gas???
It was sad, couldn’t answer if he would strike without congressional approval - he was an embarassment.
But they all, liberal sycophants, tell us how great and brilliant Obama is, why just look at his grades, or his intellectual articles, or his record in the Senate, oh that’s right because either he has hidden it or there is nothing there but choom smoke. This idiot is worse than Jimmah as far as everything foreign and domestic. God have mercy on us.
I could not watch it anymore..... what a petulant adolescent!
I saw Dempsey’s answer as telling. It was almost like an adult sitting in on a parent-teacher conference with the teacher explaining what the child did and the parent simply face-palming and saying, “I really have no idea what could be going through his/her head.”
He just wants to ensure he gets the big bucks from Qatar once they oust Assad, you know the guy that won’t the Qatar gas czars run pipelines across his country...i think his objectives are clear. He just can’y say it for fear of getting impeached or shot at...
A Russian fleet of warships in the region - yeah, the 800 lb gorilla sitting on the couch in the living room (shhh! maybe the state media will keep ignoring them) - really
Now with Obama, we have opposite:
Obama doesn't want to be president and he doesn't know how to be president -- but he sure likes playing president.
He likes being President.
That’s really my concern as well. We’ve got a bunch of destroyers, good for remote bombardment, but we don’t have much in the way of complementary firepower to protect those assets. As I understand it, destroyers are great for bombarding land targets but don’t have much in the way of defenses. Would they use cruisers and frigates for that?
Me too. Dempsey could have given a vague and superficial answer to the question. But instead he choose to give no answer at all. I that was Dempsey's way of saying "I do not support Obama's plan. Not at all."
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