The Three Stooges of the Apocalypse
By John Ransom
TownHall.com
The Middle East isn’t just a foreign policy
problem it’s another one of the man-caused disasters
that has become the hallmark of the Obama
administration’s version of Moe, Larry and Curly.
And the cause of the disaster is transparently
clear: These stooges are all campaign and no common
sense.
Because the amigos tres in this instance haven’t
just been poor executives-- as they have shown in
other policy-- they’ve been poor thinkers as well.
That they are hurting Muslims in Iraq and the Middle
East -- a group they say they stand in solidarity
with-- is immaterial to them. Campaigning for these
stooges has always come before common sense.
That’s why secretary of state John “Larry” Kerry--
who was for the Iraq war before he was against it
while he was campaigning for president-- is
secretary of state; and perhaps the worst secretary
of state ever if you discount the last secretary of
state, who also was for the Iraq war before she was
against it.
“This is not a combat, boots-on-the-ground,
operation in Iraq,” said Defense Secretary, Chuck
“Curly” Hagel—another guy who was for the war before
he was against it-- all while he ordered 130 more US
boots on the ground.
So let’s just say that the campaign is never ending,
and thus common sense is still quite uncommon with
our foreign policy stooges.
So uncommon in fact that Barack “Moe” Obama can’t
even admit what we all know to be facts.
When confronted with the fact that he promised to
remove US troops from Iraq, then kept that promise,
and then claimed he ended the Iraq War by removing
the troops-- while really he was destabilizing the
country—Moe had this to say:
“What I just find interesting is the degree to which
this issue keeps on coming up, as if this was my
decision,” said
Obama about the decision to end the US troops
that stabilized Iraq. “Under the previous
administration, we had turned over the country to a
sovereign, democratically elected Iraqi government.
So let’s just be clear: The reason that we did not
have a follow-on force in Iraq was because the
Iraqis — a majority of Iraqis did not want U.S.
troops there.”
Let’s just be clear, shall we?
It was Moe—and Kerry and Curly-- who claimed from
the campaign trail in 2008 that Iraq was just a
sideshow, the surge wouldn’t work, and that the real
US troop surge needed to happen in Afghanistan. It
was Moe—and Kerry and Curly -- who said the Bush
administration made a mistake in not pursuing Osama
bin Laden, like somehow bin Laden’s death would make
a difference. It was Moe-- and Kerry and Curly --
who pulled troops out of Iraq after the surge worked
and INTO Afghanistan, even though we know now that
Moe— and Kerry and Curly -- didn’t want troops in
either country.
So why are they sending troops in now?
Because they are stooges, that’s why.
I’m not sure what it is that theses stooges think
they accomplishing for the Muslim world, or for
America, but if Obama-- and Kerry and Curly—have
something to offer in the Middle East besides an
apocalypse now and more apocalypse later and even
more apocalypse later still, they should cut the
vaudeville routine.
Their slapstick is a painful substitute for
statesmanship.