“Obama’s incompetence is truly dangerous,” read the headline on a Washington Times op-ed written by Joseph Curl, I recently ran across while going through my tickler file as I prepared to write this post.
The commander-in-chief shows outright disrespect for the military as he salutes with a Styrofoam cup in his saluting hand. (usatoday.com)
Recalling the bumbling of Jackie Gleason on the old “Honeymooners” show, “incompetence is funny, sometimes hilarious,” wrote Curl. “But in real life, incompetence can be dangerous, even life-threatening,” he added as he drew an analogy of a real-life Homer Simpson in charge of safety at a nuclear power plant.”
Curl reviewed the president’s long list of recent missteps in the Middle East beginning with his “impotent ‘red-line’ threat” that Syrian President Bashar Assad’s use of chemical weapons would prompt “enormous consequences.” Nothing.
We then saw ISIS swiftly move from Syria into Iraq with impunity, slaughtering thousands along the way, and when asked what America planned to do, President Obama announced, “I don’t want to put the cart before the horse.” His following admission, according to Curl, “(He) exposed his true incompetence (when he added) “We don’t have a strategy yet.”
You will recall from my Sept. 3, 2014 post, Our leaderless, rudderless nation, that the president called for a comprehensive strategy to fight terrorism a year earlier, on May 23, 2013.
In new research, I have learned that on Aug. 1, 2007 candidate Obama, after railing against the Bush administration in a speech at the progressive Woodrow Wilson Center said, “When I am president, we will wage the war that has to be won with a comprehensive strategy …” After six years in the presidency, he still doesn’t have a strategy, nor a response to his own 2007 statement, ”To defeat this enemy, we must understand who we are fighting against, and what we are fighting for.”
Speaking about the war in Iraq in 2007, candidate Obama said, “In ending the war, we must act with more wisdom than we started it. That is why my plan would maintain sufficient forces in the region to target al Qaeda within Iraq. Really, Mr. President, then why didn’t you demand a status of forces agreement with Iraq?
While our president is making it up as he goes along – even picking targets we understand – Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel couldn’t tell a reporter who was leading the so-called moderates in Syria we plan to arm. OMG.
As we dribble warriors into Iraq to “train Iraqi’s,” the president boldly announces a plan to send 3,000 troops to Africa to assist in the Ebola virus project. Why not send the Peace Corps? I expect that he may soon assign thousands of troops to help combat global warming.
