The DiploMad 2.0: Ted Mack! Calling Ted Mack! Please Pick up Your Royalty Check at the Rose Garden!.
Diplomad does a “take down” on Obama’s Syrian strategy. I’ll leave our with the concluding paragraphs…
If you are going to do a limited, “warning shot across the bow” sort of operation you do it in the middle of the night, no warning. The “warning” comes the next day, when you tell the miscreant, that the attack was the warning and is just a taste of what is to come. Will it work? Maybe. It didn’t work when Clinton launched his 23 cruise missiles against some empty Iraqi government buildings. It did work, for a bit, when Reagan hit Qaddafi after the Berlin disco bombing.
More important, if this crisis gets complicated, who trusts Obama and Kerry to be resolute leaders? Nobody. Is there any doubt that Obama would cut and run?
This is rank amateurism. Obama has no idea what to do, so he punts. He has kicked the ball to Congress, hasn’t called them back to the game, just told them you guys debate it, and let me know. Oh, and, of course, this is more important than defunding Obamacare, investigating Benghazi, looking into the IRS or Fast and Furious. No hurry. We can leave our ships out there for months if need be. Joe, let’s head for the links!
For those of you who don’t know, Ted Mack was the radio & television host of the original amateur hour.
