Because an aspiring Democrat presidential "hopeful" can never too tightly embrace a foreign policy template that has failed too spectacularly:
Most politicians have expressed unhappiness that Iran is helping Iraq fight the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists and the White House and Pentagon have downplayed the fact that the United States and Iran are fighting on the same side, but one Democratic presidential hopeful says he would actually work with Iran to solve the ISIS problem.
Former Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee was a Republican when he voted against the Iraq War in 2002, a point he likes to make contrasts him with Democrat rival Hillary Clinton, who voted for it.
And that and his twenty-nine-cent warchest will be more than enough to overcome the penis he still drags around with him. Which makes one wonder....could "Caitlyn Chafee" be just around the corner?
Chafee, appearing Monday on CNN's The Lead with Jake Tapper....
Why? No, seriously, I know this is CNN and nobody watches them and they literally have nothing better to do, but still....why?
....said Democrats need to nominate someone who has opposed action in Iraq from the get-go.
Well, they've already got somebody like that in the Oval Office right now. Maybe he should just stick around for another term or six. Whaddaya think, Linc?
"It is a chaotic mess over there. It's a Republican chaotic mess, and so we need, as Democrats, a nominee that opposed the war, as we look ahead to fixing it," Chaffee said.
Stop the tape. First of all, what does he mean by "fixing" Iraq? Second of all, Republicans had already "fixed it" with the Surge back in 2007-2008; it was Barack Obama and the Democrats who "broke" Iraq, lost Syria as well, and birthed the Islamic State, and now are helping conceive a race to see whether the Shiites in Tehran or the Sunnis in Mosul are the first to either conquer or incinerate the planet and establish the Global Caliphate either here or in hell.
And that's why they, as Democrats, need a nominee who will continue that Democrat chaotic mess. Gotcha.
"That's the person who would be better to strengthen those alliances and then move forward, working with Saudis, the Turks, even the Iranians, Egyptians, Israelis, Jordanians, Europeans, Russians," he said. "That's how we're going to fix it."
Yeah, Linc, except that the Turks and Iranians don't like each other, the Saudis can't be trusted, the Egyptians are teetering on falling back under Muslim Brotherhood domination. the Jordanians are the same predicament vis-a-vie ISIS. the Euros won't fight for any reason and couldn't if they wanted to, the Russians are already our enemies, and none of them trust us in any case.
Personally I think Chafee was just reading down the index of a world atlas or something to try to impress Tapper with how many Middle East country names he could pronounce. I also bet he was a male cheerleader once upon a time, as about the only thing missing from this obsequious "Look, guys, I really am a Democrat! YAAAAAAY TEAM!" display was the blue pom-poms.
But the one thing you can say for Linc Chafee is that he really believes his own BS.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (aka Obama's Iran enabler), on the other hand....
...., is still shoveling it:
Bob Corker is shocked, SHOCKED!, utterly STUNNED that after having led the charge to turn the Senate's Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 Treaty Ratification power on its head, Barack Obama is now making....too many concessions! He's ensuring the mullahs will get nukes! He's guaranteeing a Middle East nuclear war!
And thanks in no small part to Senator Corker, there's nothing Senate Republicans can do about it. Which Allahpundit is probably right that Corker is trying to make everybody forget about by raising a stink about something anybody with three brain cells to rub together had to know was coming after Senate 'Pubbies forfeited their phantom "leverage".
Yeah, sure, O would have imposed the "deal" with or without Corker's sellout, but the latter provided the former political cover, just as Corker's tantrum now seeks to fig-leaf the latter.
Call it Dance Of The Glowing Cockroaches.
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