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Obama Claims His Incompetence is Really “Strategic Patience”
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On February 6, 2015 @ 4:55 pm In The Point | 29 Comments
Putin has Crimea. Iran is getting the bomb. And ISIS is expanding its territory. But fear not, it’s all part of the plan.
Our fearless leader knows what he’s doing. First he golfs incessantly to make them think he’s a lightweight. He bows and appeases. And then at the last possible second, when they least expect it, he attacks. (Or doesn’t.)
Just be strategically patient.
Critics of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy have for years assailed his administration for responding too slowly to crises ranging from Syria to Russia. In a far-reaching blueprint released Friday that outlines the administration’s worldview, the White House insisted the United States is leading the global effort to confront challenges in a deliberate manner described as “strategic patience.”
Instead of taking that 3 AM phone call, Barry sleeps in and gets back to it at 5 PM. #Strategicpatience.
Instead of rescuing Americans under fire in Benghazi, he lets them die and then blames a video. #Strategicpatience.
A White House summary of the strategy, released in tandem with the overall plan, repeatedly highlights the administration’s intent to lead — in partnerships, with military power, and “with a long-term perspective, influencing the trajectory of major shifts in the security landscape today in order to secure our national interests in the future.”
This is the sort of thing Dotcoms with no business plan put out to explain why they need more money.
“We’re uh influencing major shifts, long term synergy in order to secure marketplace share.”
Friday’s strategy essentially is the written product of what the White House has all along argued is in the U.S.’ best interests: Carefully constructed security plans that consider all options before getting ensnared in risky and potentially open-ended conflicts
Like Libya? You know the illegal war Obama launched by lying to the UN that ended with Al Qaeda taking over.
How about Afghanistan? Syria? Iraq?
Where are those carefully constructed security plans that consider all options before getting ensnared in risky conflicts?
Are they on the golf course? Or maybe we need to be more strategically patient until the plans are revealed.
“The United States should not “attempt to dictate the trajectory of all unfolding events around the world,” Obama wrote. “As powerful as we are and will remain, our resources and influence are not infinite.”
Says the man who keeps trying and failing to influence them while squandering most of our resources and all our influence.
National Security Advisor Susan Rice is set to publicly roll out the strategy in a speech Friday afternoon at the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington.
And if you don’t like her speech, she’ll blame a YouTube video.
Additionally, the White House calls climate change and energy security as key to U.S. national security
Also gay rights. And ObamaCare. And golfing.
Even Obama’s own top advisors have criticized his administration’s national security decisions. Late last month, former Defense Intelligence Agency head Mike Flynn, a retired Army three-star general, said many in the administration were “paralyzed” by the complexity of fighting the Islamic State, leading them to “accept a defensive posture, reasoning that passivity is less likely to provoke our enemies.”
That’s Strategic Passivity.
Although a 1986 U.S. law requires presidents to issue an annual national security strategy, Obama’s last policy was issued in May 2010, and made the case for ending the war in Iraq and adding more troops to the fight in Afghanistan.
And those worked out fine.
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