Who are the two happiest people in the world this week?
Bashar Assad and Jimmy Carter.
One week ago, Assad was a war criminal awaiting certain retaliation from the most powerful military force the world has ever known; and Jimmy Carter still owned the title “Worst President Ever.”
Not anymore.
Whatever keeps a brutal dictator like Assad up at night (fear of another dinner invitation from the Kerrys, perhaps?), it’s certainly not Barack Obama. America’s commander in chief has made it abundantly clear that he won’t support any military action vigorous enough to cause a Damascus traffic jam.
The Los Angeles Times quotes a U.S. official who says President Obama wants an attack “just muscular enough not to get mocked.”
“They are looking at what is just enough to mean something, just enough to be more than symbolic.”
And there you have the Obama foreign policy reduced to a bumper sticker: “Don’t mock me, bro!”
But how can we not mock a president who says he’s “made the decision” that military action against Assad is a moral imperative and essential to U.S. security; and that he’s “made a second decision” to not make a decision but to wait for Congress to decide.
A president making these two completely contradictory statements is bad. But to make them in the same speech? No wonder Jimmy Carter is smiling.
The Twitter gag the day of Obama’s “We must attack, unless we don’t” speech was “If Sen. Obama were still in office, he’d vote ‘present’ on President Obama’s Syria plan.” But the punchline is that by passing the buck to Congress, the president has found a way to vote “present” from the Oval Office....
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