Just a quibble. The charging of the CEO’s for the lunch that “Teh One” had invited them to at the White House was not, of course, an economy measure. The White House has two rather large accounts; either one of which that the lunches could be charged to with no problem. If those accounts are broke at this point of the fiscal year, it means that someone is embezzling big time. Unfortunately, given the propensity of this White House to embrace felons, the suspect list starts in the Oval Office and is immense.

However, I do not believe that there is any such shortfall. This was an act of deliberate and calculated rudeness that “Teh One” just could not resist. It was a deliberate snub and insult that by now has spread throughout the business community; and did so long before it was leaked. The leak was to build street cred with the Far Left-Left of his Leftist coalition. I can see joy in the revolutionary cells at this gesture.

But, it was a case of his impulses overwhelming any tactical or strategic sense. The collapse of the rule of law is something that CEO’s may understand as just business, albeit crooked business. And they may try to adapt to that, once they know that they are playing by Chicago Mafia rules.

However, deliberate personal insults takes it outside of just business. Now it is plain that this is not someone who can be “worked with”; but rather a personal enemy. Buraq Hussein just gave away a major strategic advantage on a whim.

Subotai Bahadur