It’s tempting to follow Norman Podhoretz’s theory that Obozo’s Syria Circus isn’t ineptitude but a nefarious plot to make the USA look stupid. Because otherwise, with its shifting claims of really tough strikes, but not too really tough, mind you, it’s clowns all the way down.
But it could be our favorite Nobel Peace Prize winner has decided he actually likes rattling sabers now and then and he’s trying to channel LBJ and his turn-the-screw attacks on North Viet Nam.
They were supposed to, you know, bring the Commies to the Paris peace table, whether square, rectangular or round, so that Lyndon could get re-elected for having won an unpopular war. And if so does this mean Obongo will eventually be offering Baby Assad a Christmas truce?
UPDATE: Looks like Lurch’s “trust us” b.s. turned into an apparently offhand remark about letting Russia secure Baby Assad’s chemical weapons which has now morphed into Obongo’s new no-strike-Syria policy. And after all that two-bit histrionics. Geeze Louise. There’s obviously no Xmas “truce” in the offing now.
MORE: Or Not. Is Obozo being played by the Russians? Who better?
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Norman Podhoretz… sometimes he goes too far. Not a man to flow with Occam’s razor, that one.
My favorite corollary from the Razor: never ascribe to malice what could be adequately explained by stupidity. Works anytime.
Norm is just repeating (or finally coming around to seeing it) a conclusion drawn by others, among them Dinesh D’Souza who wrote quite a good (and believable) book about it: http://tinyurl.com/pu3z4jl
And it has been suggested that malice and stupidity are not mutually exclusive.