By Bryan Preston
How…unexpected. (Not.) John Kerry said it couldn’t be done. Russia is making sure that it won’t, even if it could be.
Russia is not keen at this stage for a binding U.N. Security Council resolution that would provide a framework to control Syria’s chemical weapons’ stocks, France’s foreign minister said after talks with his Russian counterpart on Tuesday.
“As I understood, the Russians at this stage were not necessarily enthusiastic, and I’m using euphemism, to put all that into the framework of a U.N. binding resolution,” Laurent Fabius told French lawmakers after a telephone conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Obama is being played. The Russian deal forced him to change course
and re-write tonight’s speech at the last minute. Now he has to re-write
it again, or pretend that the Russians didn’t just drop a flaming bag
of something on the White House doorstep. It will be grimly amusing to
see what Obama tells the American people about all this now. The words
“fiasco” and “clusterf*ck” have been said by others today. He won’t use
either word, but that doesn’t mean both don’t apply.
Harry Reid pretended that the Russia deal drove him to halt a vote on
force in the Senate. The reality is that Democrat votes for force were
“dropping like flies,” and the prospect of passage in the House was
always grim. Obama lost the Congressional Black Caucus today. Sen. Mitch McConnell came out against bombing today,
breaking with the House GOP leaders who had supported it, and probably
killing off any chance that the Senate would help Obama out by at least
giving him a split vote in Congress. The likelihood now is that he gets
rejected by both houses with actual “No” votes or implicitly if neither
brings the authorization to a vote, and then has to decide if he wants
to strike Syria anyway. Does Barry feel lucky?
So Obama is being played by Putin. The question is, does he know or
even care that he’s being played? He seemed happy enough to grab Putin’s
hand and get out of his jam. Now what’s he going to do? Putin is saying
that there will be no quick fix, and that he intends to keep on using
the UN to mess around with Obama, promise him a prize, then take it
away, over and over again. Playing the part of Lucy, Vlad Putin. Playing
the part of Charlie Brown trying to kick a football, Barack Obama. For a
while to come.
Russia is also now taking away Obama’s fig leaf that the threat of
force is driving this phony weapons deal, by taking the threat of force
entirely off the table. Obama is playing cards with Reggie Love, Putin
is playing 3D chess like a boss.
Obama and his lieutenants keep saying that if we don’t strike Syria, rogue states will be emboldened. That’s dubious, since Iraq’s two-time use of chemical weapons didn’t send the North Koreans south, but it’s obvious that one massive state is being emboldened by Obama’s Hamlet act: Russia. Putin is using Syria to make Obama a laughingstock and America, irrelevant, in a stroke.
Obama and his lieutenants keep saying that if we don’t strike Syria, rogue states will be emboldened. That’s dubious, since Iraq’s two-time use of chemical weapons didn’t send the North Koreans south, but it’s obvious that one massive state is being emboldened by Obama’s Hamlet act: Russia. Putin is using Syria to make Obama a laughingstock and America, irrelevant, in a stroke.
I hate to keep tying the same thing over and over, but this won’t end well.
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1 comment:
Upon evacuation, Vlad has pieces of Obama in his stool.
While I'm not a Putin fan, it's always beautiful to watch a maestro at work, sticking Russian sickles in the narcissist's inflated ego.
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