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Posted on 03/25/2014 8:30:48 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Donald Rumsfeld: 'It does not take a genius' By: Tal Kopan March 25, 2014 06:13 AM EDT
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is blasting the Obama administration’s handling of Afghanistan, saying a “trained ape” could have done a better job in diplomatic relations with the country.
“We have status of forces agreements probably with 100, 125 countries in the world,” Rumsfeld said Monday night on “On the Record with Greta van Susteren” on Fox News. “This administration, the White House and the State Department, have failed to get a status of forces agreement. A trained ape could get a status of forces agreement. It does not take a genius.”
The George W. Bush Cabinet official who presided over the beginning of the war in Afghanistan said that relations with Afghan President Hamid Karzai were good under Bush, but have gone “downhill like a toboggan” under President Barack Obama.
Rumsfeld said he understands the position Karzai is in, from badmouthing U.S. officials to recently announcing he supports Russian President Vladimir Putin on annexing the Crimean region of Ukraine.
“United States diplomacy has been so bad, so embarrassingly bad, that I’m not the least bit surprised that he felt cornered and is feeling he has to defend himself in some way or he’s not president of that country,” Rumsfeld said. “We have so mismanaged that relationship.”
Rumsfeld called out individual members of the Obama administration, including the president himself, for comments he said “trashed” the Afghan president.
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Looking at it from Karzi’s point of view, Obama started out by dithering about extra troops in a surge which, when implemented, would bring claims of civilian deaths. The extra troops came with an expiration date in 2014, after which Karzi would have to deal with the situation rather than just sit back and watch the money flow to his offshore accounts.
Of course Karzi started yelling about civilian deaths while conveniently ignoring those caused by his future business partners in the Taliban. He got the American ROE changed to benefit the Taliban. Now he is “selling” himself to his future business partners who are impatient to take over. Now Karzi is just committed to getting the Americans out and his own escape plans.
It makes sense to me, but then I’m just a trained ape. Better trained than Obama though.
It also doesn’t take a genius to realize the stupidity of remaining in a country where the government wants you out. Why should we leave troops in Afghanistan, dangling by a rope, supporting a corrupt Afghan administration, with little or no chance of accomplishing anything?.
That is a damn insult to trained apes.
Obama is an undocumented, non vetted, sociopath
with multiple SS#, names, birth certificates, stories,
and 5 years of Tyranny against the US Constitution.
Trained apes are vetted, have credentials,
and do not lie.
Please note:
He was CONTRASTING the performance of this Administration with that of a “trainned ape”.
We WAS NOT COMPARING!!!!!
It does take a “genius” to bring the USA to it’s knees and obummer is doing just that in economic and foreign policies.
That’ll be the focus in 5,4,3,2...Not the fact that commander zero turned Afcrapistan over to the “tolibon”.
Exactly. This is all according to plan. Besides, didn’t Rummy help get the PATRIOT Act implemented?
Trained ape, huh? Ouch. That’s going to leave a mark.
We should have saved Travis the Chimp for future dealings with Putin.
Reality = Obama is amazingly incompetent in foreign policy matters.
Note: Rummy did not call Obama an ape. He said he was dumber than an ape.
Funny stuff.
Like him or not, Rumsfeld does not dissemble, and I’m liking him for it.
Kudos to Trained Apes all over the world................
Uh oh. “Trained ape” = racism!!!!
a “trained ape” could have done a better job in diplomatic relations with the country...
Indeed!
Belgian Newspaper Accused Of Racism For Picture Of Obama And Michelle As Apes
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