Remember when the lads at Time magazine went on a bender in late January and did the cover story on President Obama as the second coming of President Reagan? Try to image the Gipper uttering these words, as spotted by Bryan Preston on the Pajamas Tatler blog:
A very alert Tatler reader tipped us to this statement by President Obama. It’s from an interview he did in El Salvador during his swing through Central and South America. Take a look at how he characterizes how the United States has ended up putting troops in harm’s way in Libya.
And we will continue to support the efforts to protect the Libyan people, but we will not be in the lead. That’s what the transition that I discussed has always been designed to do. We have unique capabilities. We came in, up front, fairly readily, fairly substantially, and at considerable risk to our military personnel. And when this transition takes place, it is not going to be our planes that are maintaining the no-fly zone. It is not going to be our ships that are necessarily involved in enforcing the arms embargo. That’s precisely what the other coalition partners are going to do.
AdvertisementAnd that’s why building this international coalition has been so important because it means that the United States is not bearing all the cost. It means that we have confidence that we are not going in alone, and it is our military that is being volunteered by others to carry out missions that are important not only to us, but are important internationally. And we will accomplish that in a relatively short period of time. (emphasis added)
There are problems with all of that, especially in the military capabilities and will to act that this president seems to think our allies possess. There would have been no no-fly zone without the US, and there will be no no-fly zone if we’re not playing a major role in enforcing it. That’s just reality.
But moving past that, the bolded sentence in the second paragraph beggars belief. As president, Obama is the commander-in-chief of the US military. It should not be “volunteered by others” for anything. Obama is, to borrow the word of a previous president, the decider when it comes to deploying the military. But here is more evidence that not only is Obama uncomfortable with command, he is also very leery of American leadership in the world. See Tony Katz’s article at PJM for a deeper look into that.
Here’s a screen cap of the relevant passage, lest it disappear from Obama’s Website:
Click to enlarge.
And since context is everything, click here for more from that page.
As Bryan writes, “This is a coalition and a war in total disarray, because the American president is abdicating his responsibility at every turn.”
WWRD?
Related: “Who’s in charge?”
A man of “unique capabilities” and endless euphemisms (Kinetic Military Action!), under whose steady guidance America now resembles a giant tire fire that no doubt makes the “youths” of the Parisian banlieues green with envy.
Hey, maybe someone on the White House staff even recognizes the danger:
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/03/24/obama-to-spend-day-behind-closed-doors/
“I changed the lock on my front door so you can’t see me anymore
And you can’t come inside my house, and you can’t lie down on my couch
I changed the lock on my front door”
–Lucinda Williams
Hot Air: Obamateurism of the Day
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/03/29/obamateurism-of-the-day-480/
Gee, seems we may have a beginning of a basis for a number of charges to be brought against the President. What? Think this is crazy? Remember Nixon, Clinton? Both had Impeachment processes started against them, Nixon resigned, Clinton WAS Impeached, but the final phase of the complex process was not finished. I would think more than enough people would string together all of the words and actions from President Obama, and come to the conclusion he is acting, in the least, in an un-Presidential manner(similar to unprofessional behavior in the corporate world or “conduct unbecoming of an officer” in the military world). At the worst, he is being treasonous, by denigrating our military and our nation, making both subservient to other nations and military leaders. He contradicted himself greatly when he also mentioned in the speech the statement America is the most powerful nation in the world. Well, does the most powerful nation in the world bow down to other nations, or their rulers, or put its military at the discretionary disposal of other nations military leaders? I think NOT! Shame on President Obama, more shame on the American citizens for tolerating an escalating series of disrespects and dishonor to our military members, and most shame to those behind the President who are pulling his strings. Extreme shame to us all if we allow this MAN to be elected to another four years of the same swill.