... [Obama] said in an interview on CNN. “Our goal will not be to effect régime change, or alter the balance of power in Syria, or bring the civil war there to an end. We will simply do something random there for one or two days and then leave.”
Attempting to quell criticism of his proposal for a limited military mission in Syria, President Obama floated a more modest strategy today, saying that any U.S. action in Syria would have “no objective whatsoever.”
“I want to reassure our allies and the people of Syria that what we are about to undertake, if we undertake it at all, will have no purpose or goal,” he said. “This is consistent with U.S. foreign policy of the past.”
Skipping down...
“It may take twenty-four hours, but it could also take twelve,” Mr. Carney said.
“Maybe we get in there, take a look around, and get out right away. But however long it takes, one thing will not change: this mission will have no point. The President is resolute about that.”
The New Yorker, The Borowitz Report
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The 12 hour war.
If you blink, you missed it.
And it looks like the Frawgs are getting cold feet.
Quelle horreur!
Congress has the power of the purse.
That leaves the wallet and the credit card.
The Choom Gsng, however, have proven to be a bunch of deadbeats.
Obama sez ...
“I want to reassure our allies and the people of Syria that what we are about to undertake, if we undertake it at all, will have no purpose or goal,”...
Jay Carney, mouthpiece, sez ...
“Maybe we get in there, take a look around, and get out right away. But however long it takes, one thing will not change: this mission will have no point. The President is resolute about that.”
Sigh. Is it even possible to utter more drivel?
Gawd...I am so embarassed for my country.
Never mind that this morally and mentally vacant man is capable of starting World War III by just stumbling in to it.
rhhardin said...
Congress has the power of the purse.
Really? They forfeit said power 5 years ago and have yet to take it back.
Did I miss it ... do we have a Congressional Budget approved and signed for 2014?
Derbyshire this week said he never cared for the MLK speech owing to a general British dislike of gassy rhetoric.
That characterization also of Obama has always seemed true, but maybe it's gotten general today, namely that we have a President shit-for-brains.
"Let me make it perfectly clear... tee time!"
Clusterfuck is all I got on this.
Folks, it's The New Yorker, not The Onion, but it is meant to be sarcasm.
I look at this and the words Battleship Potemkin come to mind.
I can assure you, my comment was not sarcasm.
Presented with no comment...
“So we’re bombing Syria because Syria is bombing Syria? And I’m the idiot?” - Sarah Palin
See, I read that and thought "yeah, that sounds about right" then realized it was sarcasm. It's just pitiful when parody sounds so close to reality.
My next question is, What does the Hildabeast say about Syria? Oh yeah: she's busy working on her 2016 campaign. Noticeably silent, isn't she.
That's the whole point.
Those gas masks that were requested, the ones that could have saved some lives, never got there because of decisions on her watch.
This is why nobody ought to count on the Hildabeast as a sure thing. She's on the wrong side of a lot of bad decisions.
Here is a question Obama has given congress time to answer.
Where did the chemical weapons that killed those kids Kerry and Obama were on the verge of tears announcing come from?
Obama wont answer because it's as AllenS says... tee time.
Sixty Grit said...
When one is a communist there is no bad side.
She will be our next president because woman
That's what everybody said last time.
Hillary Clinton is hardcore left. Though I doubt she'd ever say as much publicly, the weakening of America pleases her. It follows that Obama's spectacular screw up vis-a-vis Syria is a good thing. The great advantage that Hillary and Barry have is that millions of ordinary Americans can't grasp or can't admit to themselves that the two creatures HATE America. So what they've done deliberately is seen as a moment's ineptness, they mean well but, ya know, the jobs are just so tough. No, it's deliberate and Job #1 is bringing the country to its knees in every way, economically, geo-politically, plus sowing as much societal chaos as possible.
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Keep in mind most people in the world are more aware than we think that Choom is not exemplary of America.
I think they realize, as with Bucketmouth, the incompetence and vanity are all his.
I'm guessing a lot of them right now are wishing the election hadn't been stolen, after all, since we now enter Choomie's dangerous phase where, as more things go wrong and his whole Administration is shown for all the world to see to be the one unending mistake most of us see it as being, he will start to do things to salve his ego and prove to himself that he really is relevant and powerful and brilliant.
PS ric, get your elbow off the Enter key.
It sounded so right.
But I knew they wouldn't be saying it right up straight.
But now you know the plan.
There is no plan. (And Borowitz can read between the lines. Quite funny. Unfortunateley.)
“So we’re bombing Syria because Syria is bombing Syria? And I’m the idiot?” - Sarah Palin
I believe the argument is that we want to bomb Syria because they are employing chemical weapons. And because Iran and North Korea are watching very carefully.
There seems to be some dispute goign on today about who did what with the chemical weapons. And where they came from and how they got there.
Interesting wrinkles.
"... one thing will not change: this mission will have no point. The President is resolute about that.”
Yes, of course, who needs a point? Does life have a point? Of course not you wretches. So, this mission is neither necessary nor unnecessary. It simply is. Yes that's right it is, and you do not have to define is, even. Just know that, yes, my fellow Americans, pointless it may be, but, yet, that is the point isn't it? Pointlessness is the point, is the quidditas, the whatness of this particular thing. So, please think of it as an exercise in, yes an exercise in, yes, in existential diplomacy. I mean certainly we do not NEED to send a message, and even if we did, need to I mean, what would that message be? Only that we do not need to, so therefore in some sense we really MUST. Of course you all recognize that needing to is not the same as musting to, especially in this case. I don't have to explain that, do I. I mean we're all Americans and that's the point really, isn't it. I mean aside from there being no point to this whole exercise. Yeah, that's it this is simply an exercise, a demonstration if you will that there may be no point to all this but we do have a goal and that goal is the exercise itself. Because the exercise itself is not in itself but for itself and serves no other purpose but ...
Phx ... why is Syria using chemical weapons now, if in fact they did, a reason to bomb them?
What is our national security interest in the bombing or is it just a moral issue?
Where do we bomb in the United States for our frequent and repeated use of Napalm? Agent Orange? Or should other countries bomb us?
Where was the moral outrage and prompt bombing for previous uses of chemical weapons by Iraq, you know the WMD that *didn't exist* in Iraq?
Where was our national umbrage, given our history, in 1994 when hundreds of thousands of black Africans were slaughtered by their fellow Africans, in a pure act of genocide? Coincidently, it was a NSC deputy named Susan Rice who advised against using that inflammatory term *genocide* in the Clinton administration with an election in the offing. Africans killing Africans with machetes was subverted to an election, while white Balkans inhabitants had to be defended by direct participation. Why?
The hypocrisy of the institutionalized seniorbureaucrats in Washington, those that never really leave DC, of both parties, under the last four Presidencies is astounding. And embarrassing.
Now we have little Bam-Bam wanting to crater some runways and kill a few folks who have not attacked us in any manner. He wants a consensus from Congress, aka a skirt to hide behind.
Is he also going to bomb the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia whose nationals have in fact attacked us? I mean moral righteousness is our right, right?
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