Who's Red Line Is It, Anyway?

by JASmius

In a stunning about-face that could cause eyes to roll and heads to spin, Barack Obama now says he did not set the "red line" regarding chemical weapons use in the Syrian civil war. Yet, numerous times over the past year...well, just see for yourself all the startling contradictions....

We laugh, we chortle, we guffaw, but he really believes he never said it because his supreme narcissism will not allow him at accept that he did.  He believed, as he always has, that all he had to do was give a speech, make a proclamation, and presto-change-o-voila! the problem would be solved.  Check the "Earth is safe from chemical weapons" box and go on another shrimping vacation.  Now, whether it was Assad or, more likely, the al Qaeda "rebels" who gassed the Ghouta suburb of Damascus, either way King Hussein has been defied - or simply ignored.  And since that's obviously impossible in his mind, then obviously he never made the original "red line" proclamation.  It has to be "the world," it has to be Congress, it has to be his newest dog, it has to be the creepin' crud, hell, why not George W. Bush?  ANYBODY but him.  Because, you know, gods don't make mistakes.  And anybody who would point out The Truth That Dare Not Be Told is obviously a racist who should be hanged from the nearest tree - or have a cruise missile earmarked for their front door.

This is the "incompetence" school of thought.  Much more entertaining, although We, The People are just as impotent to do anything about it.  But I still lean towards the "revolutionary" camp that argues that Red Barry is not a faculty lounge naïf drowning in his own fecklessness, because it assumes that he's still an American president trying to do what he thinks is best for the country as it is.  But he didn't seek the presidency to serve the people, but to "wrenchingly transform" the nation into something it isn't and was never meant to be.  In the same way his mentors, friends, allies, and "comrades" weren't American in any traditional politicocultural sense, but foreign, alien, and radically extreme.  Once this necessary context is in place, the pattern of O's Middle East foreign policy snaps into focus.  Egypt: an Arab dictator and US ally (Hosni Mubarek) is overthrown at the Obama Regime's urging in favor of the jihadist Muslim Brotherhood; Libya: a neutralized Arab dictator (Muammar Khaddafy) is overthrown by behind-led US air power and functionally turned over to al Qaeda; and now, Syria: an Arab dictator and Iranian stooge (Bashar al-Assad) is battling a "rebellion" led by....al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood, where news of a chemical attack on Syrian civilians splatters across the front pages, and presto-change-o-voila!, the Obama Regime immediately blames Assad without any hard evidence and starts the rush to kinda-sorta not-too-muscular maybe-a-little-bit war.  Almost as if they knew it was coming before it happened.

Only the now-war-loving Left did their anti-war agitating of the Bush years just a little too well, as there's absolutely no public stomach for another Middle East "adventure".  Does The One care what his subjects think about this or anything else?  He's never given any such indication before.  And if Congress balks - and the smoke signals are puffing in that direction - well, I suppose the NIVs and LIVs will have their best educational opportunity yet to see what their retarded vigilanceness hath wrought.

UPDATE: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee rammed through Darth Queeg's version of AUMF 2.0, in essence entering the Syrian civil war on al Qaeda's side until they have the upper hand, after which we'll supposedly, somehow extricate ourselves and let AQ enter Damascus and hang Boy Assad from the nearest lamppost or something.  Because it's always easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy for the United States to exit wars, dontcha know.  Given that Rand Paul says he won't filibuster a floor vote, O's Syrian fig leaf will likely move across the Capitol in short order, because whatever pacifist clucking some or all Donks might do, ain't no way they're going to kneecap their own messiah.