John Kerry, out of frustration and severely tested to remove his size 12+ hoof from his over-sized mouth demanded Bashar al-Assad fork over his entire stock of chemical weapons to internationally controlled intermediaries within one week or America would attack militarily. After saying the response would be an “unbelievably small, limited kind of effort” (a laughingly inept display of shiftless irritation and insincerity which undermined the rationale for any action at all), Vladimir Putin spun the roulette wheel and Bashar al-Assad dropped his chips declaring basically: “we can do this”. Putin and al-Assad snatched victory from the jaws of defeat and strutted to center-stage in this pathetic comedy Obama calls Foreign Policy.
Scrambling to look like he knew what he was doing, the State Department said: “His (Kerry’s) point was that this brutal dictator with a history of playing fast and loose with the facts cannot be trusted to turn over chemical weapons, otherwise he would have done so long ago. That’s why the world faces this moment.”
One must only observe the look on Kerry’s face after Putin and al-Assad made their statements to understand how a bully reacts when somebody calls his bluff. But, Obama immediately jumped on the chance to claim (paraphrased); “Of course we won’t shoot if that evil hombre drops his sick shooter. As a matter of fact I brought all of this up to my podnuh Vlad over a year ago at the Gee-golly eight conference at Camp David. It evidently took awhile for it to sink in and he could see the mighty wisdom I was silently mind-melding toward him. That Vulcan stuff really works!”
Obama’s opportunistic nature is ever present. Obama couldn’t get enough votes to stave off a massive defeat in the Congress. Every Senator and Representative who would vote for missile strikes would be signing their personal political death warrants. Now Obama can draw a breath and see where this latest political breeze is blowing and how he can best benefit from it.
Putin and al-Assad know they must keep the weak-kneed, spineless appeaser-in-chief in office and try like all-get-out to assure a Democrat takes his place when he leaves office. This could be a win-win for both sides: The Russians and Syrians avoid being subjected to an “unbelievably small, limited kind of effort” conducted from the warheads of Tomahawk missiles and gain traction as “peace-keepers” in the region. Al-Assad gets to look reasonable and take on the mantel of the misunderstood sovereign leader assailed by ungrateful heathens who kill children in the streets while trying to end his righteous administration. Obama and Kerry get to say they negotiated a peaceful end through diplomatic expertise delivered from a position of strength and intestinal fortitude.
But, has anybody else noted nobody’s talking about the American economy and almost nobody is asking questions about Benghazi anymore? How can Obama and Kerry know everything there is to know about al-Assad’s nefarious deeds but they know nothing about what went wrong in Benghazi?
Is this, as some have said, a “False Flag” operation distracting us from the real issues needing attention both here and abroad? Is this the effort of an administration noted for its convoluted efforts to appear worthy of the trust placed in it by voters least educated on the issues potentially affecting their destinies?
Or, could this be a “False #” operation? The Wiktionary defines a “#” as: (US, technical term) in textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric. Instead of offering us actions and policy woven from the whole cloth of truth, we appear to be getting a “false #” where the insincerity and opportunistic nature of the players conceals the presence of their complicity with each other. They benefit from a faux pas committed by a self-serving political hack trying to look tough as he stumbles toward the combat arena he has no real stomach to enter.
Obama and Kerry will find a way to assure their best side is seen in this matter. Snakes capitalize on the weakness of the creature they’ll attack and consume. The people blindly supporting Obama and Kerry are the most feeble-minded.
Thanks for listening
