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Will’s Take: Obama’s Foreign Policy Comes From ‘Monty Python’
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Posted on 04/15/2014 4:56:19 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

April 15, 2014 7:13 PM Will's Take: Obama's Foreign Policy Comes From 'Monty Python'

By NRO Staff

George Will thinks Vladimir Putin is aiming to “do in the alliance that did in the Soviet Union” — NATO.

Will said Putin doesn’t believe President Obama’s will abide by Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO), which says that any attack on Europe or North America will be considered an attack on them all, and that all parties will provide military support to those attacked.

“This crisis began with Secretary of State Kerry saying, ‘Nothing we are saying should be a threat to Putin,’” Will said. “If you’re not threatening a bad guy who’s doing bad things, what are you doing?”

Recalling the different influences on foreign policy, Will noted that some listen to “the idealism of Woodrow Wilson” and the “realism of Henry Kissinger,” but that Obama takes his foreign policy cues from Monty Python.


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To: Sub-Driver

Monty Python? I was thinking more along the lines of....

21 posted on 04/15/2014 6:33:33 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Stalin Blamed The Kulaks,Obama Blames The Tea Party)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Monty Python? I was thinking more along the lines of....

...something completely different?

22 posted on 04/15/2014 6:36:19 PM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: kaehurowing; henkster
For me, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Douglas Adams hung out with the Monty Python gang.
23 posted on 04/15/2014 6:37:13 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Making good people helpless doesn't make bad people harmless.)
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(What is six times nine?)


24 posted on 04/15/2014 6:43:11 PM PDT by kaehurowing (FIGHT BULLYING, UNINSTALL FIREFOX)
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To: Sub-Driver

I’ve agreed for years about Obama and Monty Python’s Flying Circus.. only Obama Jivethon’s Lying Circus is far-out funnier by a mile.


25 posted on 04/16/2014 8:41:46 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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