Tweedledum & Tweedledee Come to Wales School

Someone should have tipped off little school kids in Wales that Tweedledum and Tweedledee would walk right out of the nursery rhyme when President Barack Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron made a school day visit to their classroom.

With ISIS crucifying innocents, burying women and children alive and chopping off heads for sport, the entire fate of Western civilization rests on selfie masters Tweedledum (Barack Obama) and Tweedledee (David Cameron). “Pupils at a Welsh primary school were today left stunned when, of all people, Barack Obama and David Cameron walked into their classroom. (DailyMail, Sept. 4, 2014) The president and Prime Minister were in Rogerstone, near Newport, ahead of the Nato summit at nearby Celtic Manor.” ISIS’s command of social networks saw the terrorists sending their second beheading of a U.S. journalist viral on YouTube this week. Tweedledum Obama’s and Tweedledee Cameron’s command of mainstream media is a joint op-ed in today’s tony Times of London. Even school children know which media would have more shocking impact. Bloviating their way through the ISIS crisis, Obama and Cameron arrived at Rogerstone school as conquering heroes.

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As any politician would know much easier to con little children than adults. Caught up in the publicity of the visit, the children would be hard pressed to recognize the irony of the two leaders taking deep bows when they are doing zero to bring order to chaos. Both Obama and Cameron have allowed the enemy in under the gates of their countries through long practiced government multiculturalism and wide open borders. Five percent of Britons are now Muslim. Bloodthirsty terrorists are getting in over the southern border in the US along with MS-13 gangsters and unaccompanied minors some of whom carry dreaded infectious diseases. With the agonized cries of the innocents slaughtered by ISIS patently politically ignored, the dapper duo are taking applause wherever they can find it, in this case in the unknowing school rooms of Wales. ISIS has decapitated both James Foley and Steven Sotloff and are now boasting about a coming British hostage as third. “Obama and Cameron are using this week's NATO summit to press for a multi-national coalition to carry out military action against the Islamic State militant group, formerly known as ISIS.” Take that, ISIS! “The two leaders began laying the groundwork for their mission in a joint op-ed published in Thursday's edition of The Times of London. In the piece, Obama and Cameron vowed that their leaders would "not be cowed" by the extremists who have beheaded two American journalists and threatened a British aid worker with the same fate in recent weeks. (Daily Mail) "We will be more forthright in the defense of our values, not least because a world of greater freedom is a fundamental part of how we keep our people safe," the op-ed states.  Cowed is precisely where ISIS leaves both Times of London editorial writers, their bloviating notwithstanding. “Meanwhile, the Associated Press reported that over the past day, Secretary of State John Kerry and other administration officials have reached out to leaders from Australia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Italy and Israel to discuss how to combat ISIS. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the discussions focused on what each country might contribute -- including weapons, humanitarian aid and other resources -- and noted that some nations already have.(Daily Mail)
 “ Obama "wants to build an international coalition," Psaki said. "That's not going to be overnight. We need capabilities from many countries." There is no mystery about “how to combat ISIS”. The answer can be found in putting action before parlay and a manly willingness to stand up to them. How anyone can crown Obama’s head with laurel after he publicly admitted only last week that “we don’t have a strategy yet” to deal with ISIS, before going on to state his goal to “degrade and destroy” ISIS on Wednesday, then retreating from that claim to say he thought the U.S. could make ISIS a “manageable problem”, leaves him and the West wide open to ridicule. “With the meeting due to begin in Wales today, the Daily Mail reported that Cameron's government was not only leaning toward joining U.S.-led strikes against ISIS in its northern Iraq stronghold, but was also ready to consider sending British forces to Iraq as part of a possible NATO force to train Iraqi and Kurdish soldiers. The Daily Mail added that such an action would be contingent on a request by Baghdad. (Daily Mail) "We need to show real resolve and determination, we need to use every power and everything in our armory with our allies -- with those on the ground -- to make sure we do everything we can to squeeze this dreadful organization out of existence," Cameron told the British network ITV Thursday. “In contrast to last year, when Cameron's proposal to take part in planned airstrikes against Syria over President Bashar al-Assad's use of chemical weapons suffered was defeated in the House of Commons, the Daily Mail reported that all three major British political parties are either at or on the brink of supporting U.K. involvement in airstrikes.  At today’s meeting, Britain will make the case for increased defence spending by the alliance's 28 member states. The contract for 589 Scout Specialist Vehicles, being signed at General Dynamics in Oakdale, south Wales, is the largest single order placed by the MoD for armoured vehicles for more than 30 years. A far cry from the decisive days of Churchill, delivery of the first vehicles is not expected until 2017, with a training establishment and first squadron due to be equipped by 2019--and a brigade ready to deploy by the end of 2020. Perhaps the best word on Tweedledum’s and Tweedledee’s stop in the 230-pupil school in Rogerstone comes from deputy headteacher Andrew Rothwell: ‘When we found out that the visit would involve the US President and the Prime Minister everyone was gobsmacked’. And the day of flag-waving and cheering for Obama and Cameron is surely more reminiscent of the classic common version of the Tweedledum Tweedledee rhyme:

“Tweedledum and Tweedledee Agreed to have a battle; For Tweedledum said Tweedledee Had spoiled his nice new rattle. Just then flew down a monstrous crow, As black as a tar-barrel; Which frightened both the heroes so, They quite forgot their quarrel.”