This Olympic Committee is a bunch of racists! Who should I bomb?
Posted on 09/10/2013 10:47:52 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
He sold his plan for bombing Syria on flawed political assumptions.
To support the president’s enforcement of his red line in Syria requires suspensions of disbelief. Here are several.
I wish it were not true, but there is scant evidence that the world, led by the U.S., went to war in the past over the use of weapons of mass destruction — whether by Gamel Nasser in Yemen or by Saddam Hussein against the Kurds and the Iranians. Understandably, the current West’s reaction, including Obama’s, to possible Syrian WMD use is calibrated mostly on the dangers of intervention, not the use of WMD per se. Thus Obama is now focusing on Syria in a way he is not, at least overtly, on Iran, the far greater WMD threat, because he believes the former could be handled with two days’ worth of Tomahawks and the latter could not. That would be understandable pragmatism if it were not dressed up in the current humanitarian bluster about red lines and the “international community.”
Obama, I think, is inadvertently doing the terrible arithmetic that the last 1,000 Syrians killed by the Assad regime pose a humanitarian crisis that demands his intervention in a way that the first 99,000 did not — on the theory that WMD represent an existential threat. (In fact, from the trenches of World War I to Hiroshima, WMD have never killed more than contemporary horrific conventional weaponry has.) So far Obama has not made that case. We can only wonder whether the forgotten hundreds of thousands butchered from Rwanda to Darfur — without so much as one Tomahawk or Hellfire launched on their behalf — might have been saved had only their killers begun their devilry with sarin gas.
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You might say that Putin ... is laughing his a** off at the 'superior' intellect.
VDH ping.
Vdh
Give VDH an Understatement Award and a cookie.
Rush has done a superb job of documenting (and ridiculing) the sorry-*sssed performance of the Kerry-gigolo and the Obamadork this morning.
Score: Putin - 10
Da Dork&Gigolo Duo - 0
It’s sad to realize that an ex KGB strongman would make a much better president than ...that thing.
Dear Democrats: tomorrow is 9/11. Please be on the alert.
This reminds me when His Heinous and Mrs. Great Leader tried to get the Olympics. The world wasn’t buying then... doesn’t look like they’re buying now. The guy just doesn’t understand geopolitical politics is several levels beyond his advisors’ capabilities.
No doubt the Regime will be practicing who to blame and issuing stand down orders, ya think? Perhaps they’ve already produced a video to blame?
This Olympic Committee is a bunch of racists! Who should I bomb?
Could it be possible that this entire episode with Syria, Russia and chemical weapons was really about an excuse to help a failing rebellion backed by Qatar, and Saudi Arabia? More doubts from credible sources are coming out that this attack was a false flag attack by the rebels themselves in an effort to draw us in!
Sadly when a president of the USA has become this unbelievable that Putin seems more credible to american citizens, maybe it’s time for him to go, even if Biden a “brain damaged buffoon!” should be elevated to the presidency.
That dog-gone reset button ain’t working.
Obama now is going to promote everything the left opposed Bush Doctrine stood for to the nation tonight???!!???!!
I do not plan on watching or even caring about Obama and his speech. There is no case he can make that any part of this fiasco is ‘in America's interest’.
Spare me the pootie poot saved his bacon bit too. Russian convoy removed Saddam's wmd into Syria, now they were attempting to move them back to Iraq? Deja vu.
Like you I ceased being able to watch this lying phony poseur a long time ago. This is definitely ‘wag the dog’.
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