Should give Obama time for more rounds of golf. Seriously, of course.
It doesn’t say much for a large portion of the American people, does it? If only the POSs that elected this charlatan usurper, would suffer, that would be one thing. Unfortunately, the rest of us have to suffer for their stupidity, or complicity, depending on how you look at it.
America is a very, very powerful country.
Ordinary Americans are the richest, most powerful people in the world.
The reason I say this is because typical Americans have the luxury of turning their back on the realities that probably the majority of people who live on this Earth have to deal with. Realities of survival, of personal safety, of getting something to eat, of finding safe drinking water, of having a roof over one’s head.
And what’s even more ironic is how many of them have convinced themselves that they are the ones who are put-upon, that they are unlucky, that they live in a crummy country.
To me, the most powerful examples of this is the voting habits of the people of California, and the people of Minnesota.
Both states seem to contain people who think politics is some kind of joke, and they vote for people who present a silly face to the world, but who are in reality very dangerous misleaders who see the Constitution as an anachronism and an impediment, and who would throw it in the garbage can if they possibly could. And who hope the day will come when they can do exactly that.
This is the price of being the most successful republic in history.
It is surprising to see such a conservative take published in such a liberal newspaper.
Reality must be a hard slap in the face for them. Maybe it is opening some eyes.
It reminds me of the joke that a liberal is a conservative who has been arrested, and a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged.
I’m as serious as a heart attack. Try me.
We tipped over the brink in 1979 when Jimmy (the man that should have stayed a peanut farmer) Carter engineered the fall of the Shah of Iran.
The fall of the Shah led to the rise of the Shia fundamentalist Islamic State of Iran which would become an exporter of Islamic radicalism and terrorism.
The Iranian Mullahs pledged death to America for its support of the Shah and other past sins. Iran which had been a loyal ally of the US was now a bitter enemy. Iran a country that had been modernizing under the Shah now lurched backward in to its Islamic past.
Carter's complicity in the fall of the Shah pulled a much needed finger out of the dike holding back Islamic expansionist traditions going back 13 centuries.
Is getting Assad out of power worth a WW? I don’t think so. We put eliminating Assad over eradicating Isis. We loose because although Assad is evil, he only bothers the people around him. He does not come into the US and Europe and bomb us like Isis does. Getting rid of Assad is a worthy goal maybe, but letting Isis grow is unworthy for a super power.
As Europe becomes more nationalist, they will move from under America’s wing and go with Russia if we keep screwing up like this. We will be the odd man out.