According to many of those on the left, Barry, when it comes to the rapidly deteriorating condition of the world in general, is simply being cool in the face of adversity. Or at least that’s how the 40 percent, or so, who claim to approve of the job he is doing, see things. Now personally, that’s just not how I see it. Big surprise there, right? These imbeciles bolster their pathetic argument by saying because he doesn't bluster and he doesn't strut, Barry’s demonstrating coolness by not panicking, even though he, himself, admits that it does sometimes feel as if the world is falling apart. But then, that would only be because IT IS falling apart and Barry has played a very pivotal role in allowing such a thing.
But Barry's supposed cool-in-a-crisis style and disdain for the impulsive use of military force is fueling criticism of his leadership, if you can call it that, as crises stagger the Middle East and Ukraine. It was as recently as this past Friday that our supposed commander-in-chief told a gathering of his followers, "If you watch the nightly news, it feels like the world is falling apart." Our boob-in-chief went on to say, "I can see why a lot of folks are troubled," while counseling that the US military, standing tall amid jihadist violence and geopolitical threats, had never been mightier. Now would that be the very same military that he has been working so hard to so thoroughly gut since coming into office?
Barry went on to say, "The world has always been messy -- we're just noticing it now in part because of social media." Granted, the world has always been a rather volatile place, but prior to Barry there had always been the presence of the United States acting as a stabilizing force. But with the arrival of Barry onto the scene that has become less and less the case. And I guess I’m unable to understand what role social media has played in making us more aware of just how ‘messy’ Barry has now allowed things to become? And yet with world crises bursting out all around him and political opponents apoplectic, Barry has yet to formulate any sort of response, and refuses to act on anyone's timetable but his own.
His crisis management style has been described by some as being methodical, but I tend to see it more as being haphazard at best, or perhaps shooting in the blind. Long Situation Room seminars and skepticism that US force can remake a tumultuous world, has sustained him through nearly six tough White House years. With Islamic State radicals dug into a caliphate in Iraq and Syria, and Russian President Vladimir Putin's shadow ever lengthening over Ukraine, Barry simply shrugs off a whirl of hostile news cycles and political attacks on his leadership, or his lack of any leadership ability whatsoever. Let’s face it, Barry is about as far removed from being any sort of a leader as one can possibly get.
But even Barry’s allies may be forgiven for wondering, after another trying week, whether the president’s approach is becoming a political liability, as his once high foreign policy ratings ebb. A rare burst of honesty on Syria put the president in a new fix, and raised the stakes for his trip to the NATO summit and Estonia beginning Tuesday. In trying to quell the warlike mood in Washington, Barry told reporters who, I can only assume, expected to hear that US attacks on IS in Syria were imminent, that, "We don't have a strategy yet." Such a statement should cause one to question the seriousness with which Berry takes this new terrorist organization. Barry’s team did try to tell us all what he ‘meant’, but we KNEW what he meant.
The damaging soundbite sparked a Washington firestorm, as it appeared to validate Republican attacks on Barry that he is disengaged and oblivious to rising threats, is not up to facing down the world's hard men like Vladimir Putin. And in one of those rare occasions where I can agree with RINO senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, they warned in a New York Times article Saturday headlined "stop dithering" that Barry's failure to act quickly against IS in Syria was "startling" and "dangerous." Potential 2016 Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry said Barry's remarks revealed a president always one step behind the next crisis, and accused him of "dithering and debating" over what to do about IS.
Aides did their best to backtrack protesting that what Barry was talking about was an operational plan for military action in Syria, not the wider battle against a group US jets are already bombing in Iraq. While it infuriates his enemies, Barry's simplistic approach is a reflection of his own ideological driven personality, his post-Iraq war era and the historical lens through which he increasingly peers as his presidency enters its twilight. His rather drawn out decision-making and habit of testing, which some refer to as dithering, of every scenario that could follow military action is familiar, Barry agonized for months before doubling down with an Afghan troop surge in his first term. He is incapable of making a decision.
And what is it that his defenders chose reply with? Well, what else but, Osama bin Laden, recalling the long-planned and daring raid into Pakistan, that took place three years ago, which killed the Al-Qaeda chief and helped Barry win reelection. But I think we can all agree that Barry took far more credit for that event than he in any way deserved. And as we know he had a contingency plan in place for blaming all those involved were it to go badly. White House spokesmoron Josh Earnest used the excuse that Barry wary of being sucked into Syria's civil war, refuses to simply launch an impulsive attack to appease Washington, seeking vengeance after the IS murder of US journalist James Foley.
And then Earnest actually said, "There are some who probably would make the case that it's OK to not have a formulated, comprehensive strategy." Adding that, "That is not what the president believes is a smart approach." Look, I’m no politician, but I am a reasonably intelligent individual and someone who spent 24 years in the military. So I’m curious, who besides some America hating, left wing ideologue would ever say that it’s OK to operate in the absence of a well thought out, formulated and comprehensive strategy? Am I the only one who views such a comment as being anything other than borderline insane? But having said that it what one typically expects from Democrats.
Brian Katulis, of the Center for American Progress, another one of the many George Soros funded front groups, which is also very cozy with Barry and his administration, said Barry may be more in tune with his war-weary nation, than his critics. This moron said, "I think a lot of the criticism comes from the chattering classes — amongst the foreign policy elite and in the media." And he went on to say, "I think your ordinary American is very much where the president is, in his cautious look before you leap stance." Well I’ll tell you one thing, this ‘ordinary America’ sure as shit isn’t where Barry is when it comes to dealing with these murdering terrorists.
Barry has made clear he believes history assigned him the role of getting troops home from foreign wars, in Iraq and Afghanistan, and of transitioning his nation from the permanent war footing it adopted following the September 11 attacks in 2001. Critics argue though, that Barry sees the world not as it is, but as he wishes to see it. It would seem that Barry tends to operate under the misguided premise that if you ignore things long enough they will simply take care of themselves. It’s either that or it simply matters very little to him how things take care of themselves. Because over the course of the last five years there has not been one instance where matters simply took care of themselves, peacefully.
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