Posted on 03/25/2015 11:39:29 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
ABC News White House Correspondent Jon Karl was “astounded” at today’s White House briefing, when White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said that the Obama administration still considered Yemen a model of counterterrorism strategy, even as the country imploded against warring rebel factions.
“The White House does continue to believe that a successful counterterrorism strategy is one that will build up the capacity of the central government to have local fighters on the ground to have local fighters take the fight to extremists in their own country,” Earnest said. “That is a template that has succeeded in mitigating the threat in Yemen and Somalia.”
“That’s astounding,” Karl replied. “You still see Yemen as a model? Building up a central government, which has now collapsed? A president who has apparently fled the country? Saudi troops massing on one border, the Iranians supporting the rebels? You consider this a model for counterterrorism?”
Earnest argued that the efforts in Yemen had tamped down on the terror threat against the U.S. and better positioned the government to fight insurgent groups, something Karl didn’t buy.
“We do continue to enjoy the benefits of a sustained counterterrorism security relationship with the security infrastructure that remains in Yemen,” Earnest said. “There are elements of the Yemeni government that we continue to be in touch with that continue to further our efforts to apply pressure to extremists that seek to operate in that country.”
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Puff, Puff..... pass!
D is for delusional.. The day of the word everyday at the WH.
When the narrative isn’t going your way, Make up a new one.
I can believe it.
0bama wants them all to look like Yemen.
It failed beautifully. That’s what we wanted.
The system worked.
Border secure as ever.
There! Suck on THAT!
The Rabbit Hole gets deeper by the minute. Redefining pathetic on a daily basis.
The world continues to collapse for the modern Belshazzar.
Hussein Obama continues to celebrate himself, while on the wall the Fingers of a Hand appears, writing, “Mene, mene, tekel u’Yisrael.”
You Hussein Obama, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this, but you have lifted up yourself against the Most High, G-d of Israel. You attempted to corrupt the Holy City of Jerusalem, and you and your lords, your wife, and boyfriend have praised the moon god of Arabia which does not see or hear or know, but the G-d in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored.
That night Hussein Obama, the Kenyan usurper was...
/paraphrase
Cognitive dissonance is particularly evident in situations where an individual’s behavior conflicts with beliefs that are integral to his or her self-identity.
Josh Earnest must be one of the most conflicted individuals around. He has to know he is telling lies for somebody else’s benefit.
Delusional is not just a river in Egypt.
Obama doesn’t believe it, but if he claims it the dummies will believe it.
One has to measure success by the intended outcome.
Obama will still get a gold star on his report card for “trying”...
It’s just another case where he voted “present” in the expectation that having the right intentions is all that matters. Isn’t that the way that things are supposed to work for ‘community organizers’? What else should anybody expect from him anyway? It’s not his fault, it’s someone else’s fault, after all...
In this administration, especially, every press secretary is worse than the last one.
Josh’s soul must be seared as black as the last 2 paid liars’
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