tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6915905970671706170.post7069216128716950309..comments2023-10-26T03:19:55.482-07:00Comments on multum non multa: The West on the wrong pathfChhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08007305273044171670noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6915905970671706170.post-45504560093345941902014-08-11T18:30:13.639-07:002014-08-11T18:30:13.639-07:00My favorite line:
"The last successful major...<br />My favorite line:<br /><br />"The last successful major military action the US conducted was the Normandy landing."<br /><br />Amazing to see signs that Germany is growing a pair. For the longest time, Euro-lefties bleated about US arrogance, but Europe as a whole always fell in line and for decades were key enablers of everything the US did. As the great poet Bryan Adams once said, "nothing can last forever."<br /><br />The whole thing really is hard to figure. Here was my uneducated guess: Barry-O has been faxing it in for a long time, and foreign policy was not his passion to begin with. Everything is run by his political people, who pay a lot of attention to the chattering classes of NYDC, and are desperate not to have the Democrats called weak. They thought it politically expedient to give the Vicky Nuland and her neocon plumbers a free hand in Eastern Europe, because then the White House couldn't be called weak. Perhaps Barry also didn't mind to give Putin a bit of trouble to get even for Putin's non-cooperation on Iran and Syria. The neocons told Barry that Putin was in a weak position -- baroquely corrupt tyrant (despite the man-love he gets at ZH), bad for his people, not strong enough at home to fight abroad. Barry was too busy with his tee-shot on the 14th hole to question their advice. Probably the White House never really thought much about what might happen. And they were totally unprepared when Ukraine blew up, and they have been kinda making it up ever since. They have a political need to look tough, despite the fact that no one in the White House personally gives a crap about Ukraine, and their every move seems to dig the hole deeper, and their poll numbers would go through the zero line if they actually got US troops involved. Barry probably walks around the White House whistling "take this job and shove it; I ain't working here no more."<br /><br />I am not one to ever doubt the power of the Tribe in Washington, but what is their angle here? Yes, the Israel lobby is unhappy with Putin for supporting Iran and supplying them with nuclear technology. But how does the Ukrainian cluster-frog help? If it was AIPAC's idea, so far it looks like either a miscalculation or a very long game. If you can draw a line from the Ukraine mess to the US bombing Iran, congratulations you win the prize.<br /><br />The score so far: standing up to the West for mother Russia has made the corrupt tyrant very popular bordering on invincible at home. Ethnic Ukrainians are not willing to fight to keep the Russian speakers under their control, so the separatists have no risk of military defeat. Barry finds himself the foster-dad of two ethnically divided failed states that don't make sense, when all he wants is to have dinner parties and play golf.<br /><br />But some things are so bad they are good. If Barry succeeds in growing a pair on Europe, and stranding the neocons in a ditch outside of Donetsk, and ending US imperium, it would benefit the American people and be the greatest accomplishment by an American president since forever. So what if he did it by accident. A win's a win. Lost My Shortsnoreply@blogger.com