5-Sep-13 WV-Obama gives a surprisingly coherent defense

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5-Sep-13 WV-Obama gives a surprisingly coherent defense

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5-Sep-13 World View -- Obama gives a surprisingly coherent defense of Syria intervention

Iran's government splits over al-Assad's chemical weapons

** 5-Sep-13 World View -- Obama gives a surprisingly coherent defense of Syria intervention
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... tm#e130905



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Obama gives a surprisingly coherent defense of Syria intervention
Senate Foreign Relations Committee approves military action in Syria
Russia's president Putin accuses John Kerry of lying
Iran's government splits over al-Assad's chemical weapons


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Generational Dynamics, Syria, Bashar al-Assad,
Sweden, Fredrik Reinfeldt, Truman Doctrine, John F. Kennedy,
Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
Russia, Vladimir Putin, John Kerry,
Sergei Sobyanin, Alexei Navalny,
Iran, Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

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Re: 5-Sep-13 WV-Obama gives a surprisingly coherent defense

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After seeing Obama think on his feet he always seems surprisingly coherent when he reads from a teleprompter.

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Re: 5-Sep-13 WV-Obama gives a surprisingly coherent defense

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vincecate wrote:After seeing Obama think on his feet he always seems surprisingly coherent when he reads from a teleprompter.
Like a good actor who has been given lines to read.

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Re: 5-Sep-13 WV-Obama gives a surprisingly coherent defense

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The difficulty is that, as noted in the article, Obama no longer has any credibility. This is a man absent of any substance, as he is absent of any substantial life experience. He has no understanding of the gravity of the office he occupies. He is forever hip shooting, and we are having to live with the adverse consequences. The use of chemical weapons is not an off the cuff "game changer"... war is not a game. It isn't fitting to use school yard slang, and Joe Cool bravado when referring to actions that will affect, prospectively, hundreds of thousands of peoples lives - no one goes to war to die for "Joe Cool." And you certainly don't create policy in response to an off the cuff, spur of the moment comment; should you be ignorant enough to do so you absolutely don't, under any circumstances, tell your adversary your intentions - to inform your enemy of your future actions is just simply at best adolescent, and militarily insane at worst. As Sun Tsu clearly understood 2500 years ago, only bad things come from a forewarned opponent. War is for keeps, war is not a game, war is life and death. You don't use war to "inform" an enemy; you don't use war to "educate" an enemy; you use it to kill him. The lesson of Vietnam is: war can never be made tolerable. Engage only if you must, then eradicate the enemy's will to resist as completely, and as quickly as possible - then weep for those whose deaths you have caused... and be sure, before the fact, that the purpose of the war justifies, and is worth the lives that will be lost, and the families destroyed - war is not a game; war is for deadly real for those who are tasked with carrying it out.

When Lybia was hit in the 80s, in response to nightclub terror bombings in Germany, there was no bluster, there was no adolescent school yard bravado, no advanced warning, and one of the prime objectives was to kill Gadaffi. The conduct of war dictates that you tell the adversary nothing... keep your mouth shut... use force only when strategically necessary, and only when you can justify causing the deaths of some of our best and brightest. Then ask for the forgiveness of the families who have lost their, and all of our heroes in the conflict.

You asked for the inept, and the unqualified, and are receiving the fruit of that request - go sit somewhere quite and reflect upon the impact of what you asked for, as we still have three more years of jeopardy with fully unqualified man. Hollywood, and Joe Cool do not a President make.

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