Yesterday when Russia played fetch with the Security Council I wondered if Putin had gone a step too far. It’s one thing to lead Obama around, it’s another to kick sand in the whole country’s face. That’s the kind of thing that with leadership could galvanize the Senate and House of Representatives.
Last night Obama didn’t pull on the over-reached punch, he gave up an advantage.
So, after the Russian switching, the candy Putin will use to steal Obama’s base.
It is alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States. Is it in America’s long-term interest? I doubt it. Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force, cobbling coalitions together under the slogan “you’re either with us or against us.”
Noonan’s source was right, he is looking for a Nixon or a Reagan.
Via, Instapundit
Well, you can definitely tell it’s the New York Times. From the linked article:
“No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage.”
Really? NO ONE?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA….. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA… hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha…. *deep breath* … HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…
*walks away, still laughing*
Read the comments, they’re gold.
Who wrote that awful first paragraph? It’s the worst paragraph I’ve ever seen on this site: uncapitalized “Security Council,” “its” for “it’s,” “countries” for “country’s,” and “galvinize” for “galvanize,” all in just four lines.
Well, if there is any country that knows how to use leverage, invade countries, mass arrest and murder and forcibly assimilate, it’s Russia.
This is a how-to for Obama.
“It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation. There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy. Their policies differ, too. We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.”
I almost fell out of my chair reading that by Putin!
I think Vlad’s having a helluva good time with this community organizer.I suppose,as Noonan says,the American MSM will trumpet their Great Leader’s success in preventing a war,but the world knows the community organizer looked the fool.
White House Responds To Putin’s NYT op-ed
“That’s all irrelevant,” the White House official said in response. “He put this proposal forward and he’s now invested in it. That’s good. That’s the best possible reaction. He’s fully invested in Syria’s CW disarmament and that’s potentially better than a military strike – which would deter and degrade but wouldn’t get rid of all the chemical weapons. He now owns this. He has fully asserted ownership of it and he needs to deliver.”
Or what?
Is Oblameya going to send Kerry over to Syria to tell Putin and Assad to take their time, there’s no rush, we’re trying to find a really lame video for YouTube that will show the world it’s all your fault, and at this point, what difference does it make anyways?
Or is it Kerry’s job to diplomatically ask Putin for Oblameya’s leash back.
(It’s OK,, you guys can keep his wallet)
I found this very interesting as an explanation for recent (and past) US behaviour. This article explains the role of petrodollars in all of this. It may not be the whole story, but I am sure it is a factor. Essentially, the US must go to war to avoid economic collapse: http://www.crisishq.com/why-prepare/world-war-3-preserving-petrodollar/
That’s a great line. Here’s a feel-good, ghost-written puff-piece from the suddenly reasonable, consensus-minded, let’s-all-share-the-earth Russian President (“we must stop using the language of force…”) getting published in the New York Times (think “Duranty”) that makes far more sense to any reasonable, thinking westerner than anything that the current American president could ever cobble together or read from his teleprompter.
The article makes a convincing case, but there’s that background noise: A Russian president speaking directly to the American people via the old Grey Lady, and the cognitive dissonance of a Russian president out Obama-ing Obama. A serious piece, debatable on all it’s points, but between the lines it reads like a funny-sick joke. When Putin’s ghostwriter invokes the opinions of *The Pope* to make his case to a western audience, you just know that something’s up.
Umm, Forward!
I’ve been somewhat away from the news cycle of late so forgive me if this has been discussed before but … everyone does understand that Syria’s chemical weapons will never be properly confiscated, don’t they?! I wouldn’t be surprised if some Russians were a few hours ahead of other Russians on the inspection team, carefully moving the next set of chemical weapons to another location just before the official team arrived for the inspection.
By “everyone”, I actually mean ALL of Obama’s supporters too. Do these sycophants understand that this entire “solution” is a complete farce at the highest level?!? We’ve long known that the Emperor Doesn’t Have Any Clothes. Putin very intelligently has allowed Obama to continue “acting” in the role of POTUS, without actually being one. This is like a Kafka movie in real life!
You’re absolutely correct, Ken. Thank you for the corrections.
My grandfather would have been shocked to read an oped like Putin’s, and I am stunned. Whether you believe everything he says or not, it is remarkable. He looks like the statesman, not the bumbling socialist amateur in the White House and his radical Alinsky type friends.
What is the count now, about four times Putin has checkmated Obumbles.
Along with the paragraph quoted in the thread preamble, I thought his last paragraph was also very significant. A former KGB operative saying, “We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal”. That was not heard from the Kremlin for over seventy years.
There was the odd human KGB officer during the dark years, when he could get away with it. In 1948, the KGB commander of a city in the Urals, gave my dad’s female cousin, who had run away from a labour, the papers and tickets to go back home. So who knows, just maybe Russia under Putin are on the road that Russians have never been on except for six months in 1917.
Lance is right, the comments are gold.
No, Robert, they don’t.
They’re too busy being distracted by State saying, “This has been in the works for months” or Obama’s, “Without the threat of force….”
It is to weep.
On the up side, at least it’s Obama and not Trudeau.
I wonder if Obama is regretting his, “Kid slouched in the back of the class” statement yet?
“It is alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States.”
What’s really alarming is that the Americans don’t realize that their military interventions are incentivizing totalitarian governments to acquire nuclear weapons in order to stave off American intervention in their affairs.
Just picture any American President making the kind of threats that are being made to Assad making them to the government of North Korea or Pakistan or Iran after they get nukes. It just wouldn’t happen.
“everyone does understand that Syria’s chemical weapons will never be properly confiscated, don’t they?!”
~Robert W.
FROM June 10, 2012
http://rt.com/news/syria-chemical-weapons-plot-532/
Ken, agree that Putin appears orders of magnitude more statesmanlike than Obozo. Any true American patriot would take exception to Putin’s denigration of American exceptionalism as Obozo has demonstrated that even an exceptionally stupid individual who would be a failure as a toilet attendant in most countries of the world can become the POTUS and surround himself by individuals even dumber than himself through the miracle of affirmative action.
Putin is all about restoring Russia to the position of power he thinks it deserves. I have no doubt that he’ll come across seeming very reasonable until one stands in his way; then expect a similar scenario to what happened in Georgia. Putin is also on a rigid demographic timetable as the Russian population is probably at its peak now and, unless the Russians learn how to breed again, is destined to decline rather rapidly in the coming decades. Thus expect aggressive action by Russia in the coming years — even more likely now that he’s publicly neutered Obozo and Kerry.
Likely only Putin knows the devious plan that will unfold over the coming decades. Gorbachev likely set into motion the watermelon movement that will bankrupt Europe and make them easy pickings for the Russians. In 1988 I remember getting into arguments with people who assumed that the fall of the Berlin wall meant that the cold war was over — to my paranoid Slavic mind it just meant that it was entering a new, more dangerous, phase and that the Russian shedding of Eastern block countries was probably the equivalent of a lizard shedding a part of its tail to confuse the animal hunting it.
If US freedom is to survive in the coming decades, then it will likely be necessary to have another American revolution to restore the vision of 1776, something that is still exceptional. Russia seems to be heading back into it’s Czarist past. Last month was talking to a Ukrainian nurse who spent a month in Ukraine this summer and she was shocked by how much worse the situation gets every time she goes back there and she described it as more and more of a third world country with a few very rich lording it over the increasingly impoverished masses. That’s what is in store for the US if the statist war on the middle class by the banksters continues.
There’s some reassurance in the fact that now a large majority of the US population are refusing to go along with the banksters who are ready to start WWIII to support the hegemony of the petrodollar. Russia has made it clear that it intends to exert military options if necessary to protect its interests. Likely the next move on their part would be to take over Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other countries who have been backing anti-Assad forces. Such a move is more likely now that Obozo has been humiliated for drawing an asinine red line and then the US people told him where to shove it. The best option of the US at this time would be to develop N. American oil reserves as well as shale gas. N. America could easily be completely self sufficient in energy if it wasn’t for a combination of the Saudi stooges attempting to prevent any development of oil production in N. America and Gorbachev’s influence is still being felt in the watermelon movement. I suspect that his emphasis on “environmentalism” was a deliberate plan to weaken the West.
Maybe the creation of a totalitarian state in the US is part of a Russian plan to make Russia seem like a free country in comparison to the USSA. People like Snowdon have defected to Russia and, should the steady totalitarian development of the USSA continue unchecked, expect some of the best and brightest American minds to defect to Russia which would seem like an oasis of liberty in comparison.
Great thanks…
“… The best option of the US at this time would be to develop N. American oil reserves as well as shale gas…”
Aye…but Jughead, suck-holing for the green snotty vote, has painted himself into a corner there as well.
Face it, Jughead makes Sylvester the cat seem like a genius. Neither of them can out-smart little bald guys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yMvkDaSgx4
Maybe we could all chip in and buy Obama a three year membership to a country club…
and then hopefully find some adults to grab the tiller.
http://news.yahoo.com/diplomatic-efforts-intensify-corralling-syrian-chemical-arms-001405044.html
Russia’s Interfax news agency quoted Assad as saying he had agreed because of Moscow’s diplomacy, not Washington’s threats.
“Syria is placing its chemical weapons under international control because of Russia. The U.S. threats did not influence the decision,” Interfax quoted him as telling Russia’s state-run Rossiya-24 television channel.
Putin 2016!
The libs won’t mind a foreign born president, the only real fight would be that he’s white and smart.
People are putting a lot of faith in Putin. He is a dictator, a shrewder, whiter form of Obama achieving what Obama could never hope to dream. Don’t praise him. Be afraid.
“Putin is all about restoring Russia to the position of power he thinks it deserves. I have no doubt that he’ll come across seeming very reasonable until one stands in his way; then expect a similar scenario to what happened in Georgia.” I agree, as at least he seems to bob and weave when necessary, and punches with a one, two when necessary in his view and now has Obama on the ropes.
He definitely is trying by any means, statesman or otherwise, to restore Soviet and Imperial Russian status in the world.
I still am skeptical as to the long range direction. Remember, the Russian people have no concept of what liberal democracy. Mind you, the so-called liberals here are forgetting fast in their embrace of Marxist totalitarianism.
Btw, we have a lot of Ukrainian immigrants in Saskatchewan. Good for them, as Ukraine is stumbling badly democratically and being strangled energy wise by Russia. We saw some of the opulent houses of the new rich in Kiev.
“…No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations…”
Talk about shucking credibility right from the start.
I can still remember Obama excoriating Bush for not practicing “smart diplomacy”. So what has the brilliant young Einstoner accomplished since he took the reins of power? Obama adroitly orchestrated the fiasco in Egypt that took Egypt from being a dysfunctional dictatorship disguised as democracy-lite to a theocracy disguised as a democracy to a military junta designed to get Egypt back to being “something new” disguised as a democracy. In Libya the Mensan Choomer helped remove the colourful but bloodthirsty tyrant Ghaddaffi and brought arab spring democracy to Libya which quickly led to the to the inconvenient slaughter of the American ambassador and three other innocent Americans. And now big brained Barry wants to help overthrow Assad, another satanic piece of work, and replace him with Al Qaida and other terrorist self-help groups so the same type of peace that came to Egypt and Libya can continue to fill the graveyards of Syria. And in Syria Obama took his geopolitical game to a new level as he graduated from being a Master Diplomat to a Doctoral Diplomat by finessing Putin into doing his bidding! And as Putin would say to his cabinet, if he actually had one, zabrat konfetu u rebenka!t diplomacy”.