Posted by Jack
It seems when you mess with Mother Russia, the leftists who helped elect you will quickly turn on you and rip you to shreds. I wonder how our local liberals like this? Jack
This is from their recent White House correspondent, Simon Tisdall. (CNN) — All the self-righteous huffing and puffing in Washington over Ukraine jars on European and especially Russian ears after the multiple U.S.-led invasions and interventions in other people’s countries of recent years. It’s difficult to say what is more astonishing: the double standards exhibited by the White House, or the apparent total lack of self-awareness of U.S. officials.
Secretary of State John Kerry risked utter ridicule when he declared it unacceptable to invade another country on a “completely trumped-up pretext,” or just because you don’t like its current leadership.”
And he continues his ripping with this “…U.S. President Barack Obama, a former law professor who should know better, has charged Vladimir Putin, his Russian counterpart, with violating Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, in breach of international law.
But it is Obama, following in Bush’s footsteps, who has repeatedly and cynically flouted international law by launching or backing myriad armed attacks on foreign soil, in Libya, Somalia, Yemen and Pakistan to name a few, without U.N. security council authorization. It is Obama’s administration which continues to undermine international law by refusing to join or recognize the International Criminal Court, the most important instrument of international justice to have been deveoped since 1945.
And it is Obama’s State Department, principally in the person of Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, that fatally overplayed its hand in the run-up to last month’s second Ukraine revolution. Nuland’s infamous “f**k the EU” comment revealed the extent to which Washington was recklessly maneuvering to undermine Ukraine’s elected pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych, by backing the Kiev street protesters’ demands.”
CNN rips as best it can, after all it is still held captive by that moral equivalency box, thus Barack is continuing what Bush started. In reality the actions of the two men could not be further apart except with a very superficial examination.
Obama’s invasions and diplomacy have repeatedly resulted in chaos. He has backed radical elements with terrorist ties. He has made decisions based on personal and political convenience rather than the interests of the US or sound judgement. He has overstepped the boundaries of the limited communications spying law. And, according to one observer, he has not been truthful:
That’s right the Atlantic can’t keep Bush out of their criticisms of Obama either and the inaccurate comparison is insulting. Obama’s lie, as described by the Atlantic, was made with foreknowledge of circumstance. When Bush claimed Iraq has WMD the belief was shared by nations and leaders around the world and the United Nations Security Council.
After five years isn’t it time President Obama stood on his own two feet and answered to the public as Bush was asked to do? The media and print journalists were relentless in their questioning and criticisms of Bush giving not a single ounce of understanding or consideration for the difficult decisions that come with the job.
Yes it’s good to see CNN rip Obama, and yes they did it fairly well. But they are still pulling punches and handling the subject with kid gloves. I won’t be satisfied until bring out the boxing gloves…or learn to be objective when reporting on Republican leaders.
I am tired of America’s Military hypocrisy however to suggest Bush did not know nor plan the Iraq war is a disgrace.
It is beyond a Shadow of a doubt Bush planned the Iraq war as he entered office.
Obama’s drone strikes using metadata is a disgrace as well.
Can not imagine how the excitement of a day is to bash a President instead of fix the big problems
I have my issues with this President but the world is not better when a republican is in office….jeez
Eisenhower warned us and JFK warned us……..
Dewey: “…to suggest Bush did not know nor plan the Iraq war is a disgrace.”
Of course the war was planned…just not in the way or for the purpose you think.
“Eisenhower warned us and JFK warned us…….”
Eisenhower won WWII and had a lot of other things to say.
JFK started, or set the stage for, the Vietnam War!
Quotes and Sayings:
You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours, but even at those odds, you will lose and I will win.–Ho Chi Minh to the French, late 1940s
You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.–Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954
Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.–John F. Kennedy, 1961
This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.–Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964
Tell the Vietnamese they’ve got to draw in their horns or we’re going to bomb them back into the Stone Age.–Gen. Curtis LeMay, May 1964
It’s the real world…try living in it.
More Kennedy quotes of the Vietnam era:
This one shocked even me:
This discussion has shown quite well just how radical the current Democrat party has become. Kennedy is more aligned with Eisenhower than Obama.
This is the era when the Democrat Party had left Ronald Reagan in a forward lunge toward radical progressivism. He left the party before Johnson provided the sword point fir the modern era.
I don’t like all of the quarreling and hateful speech either, Dewey. I don’t know about you, but I just got tired of being constantly run over by the Saul Alinsly tactics of the left. I am by nature a reserved and quiet person who has just had enough. I will not stand by and let lies and misrepresentations of the record go unchallenged. I will discuss peacefully with anyone who is willing to do the same. I will also meet nasty contentiousness and lies with equal fury.
Post Scripts offers me, and you, the space to do either or both. Fair enough?