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Former Defense Secretaries Gates, Panetta, fault Obama on Syria
Posted: Sep 19, 2013
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/18/former-defense-secretaries-gates-panetta-fault-oba/
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Fault him for what? Nothing happened. - sm
[ In Reply To ..]There were no missile strikes, we didn't go rogue on the UN, Syria is negotiating with the world about chemical weapons. I really don't see how fault is necessary toward anyone, except Assad for starting this mess in the first place.
There's nothing "weak and indecisive" - about
[ In Reply To ..]standing on principles adopted by 189 out of 194 nations and ratified by the US Congress when Assad openly and defiantly violated the chemical weapons ban....when no other country could find the backbone to do it. The president stuck to his guns DESPITE all this petty carping and Monday-morning quarterbacking to his own political peril, now being manifested in this backlash of sanctimonious posturing.
President Obama said he would end the war in Iraq and he did. He said he would draw down troops in Afghanistan and that is on schedule. He said the US would not stop until it got Bin Laden, who now sleeps with the fishes at the bottom of the Arabian Sea. He declared Bashar Al-Assad would be held to account for gassing his own people and that is progressing as promised. Had he not done what he did, NOTHING would have changed for Assad and his victims would still be terrorized, watching and waiting for the next gas attack.
Right! He is seen as a strong and honorable leader - by other world leaders, a
[ In Reply To ..]reputation he's worked very carefully to establish after the scary neocon superpower out of control reputation the previous administration earned us.
Oh, he is not! Do you ever read news from overseas papers? - Weakling, all mouth.
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Journalists never meet him and don't have to deal with him, - heads of state do. Right? :) nm
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no content inside post - all mouth
[ In Reply To ..]If you have salient info from the foreign press, please share. Headlines from Syria will not impress me.
Good for you. I confess, given poster intent and - headline, I didn't bother to read. nm
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Gosh, we tried to read the headlines down the thread - but they were all fake "world"
[ In Reply To ..]headlines.
Now you are just making things up - sm
[ In Reply To ..]Here are some of the headlines from around the world:
How world leaders view Obama: Incompetent and Amateur
Hopeless incompetent
World View of Obama: Impotent Leader
It goes on and on.
Speaking of "making things up!" Look at your - list of "headlines from around the world"
[ In Reply To ..]How world leaders view Obama: Incompetent and Amateur -- is NOT from "around the world," it's from a US news opinion columnist.
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/mzuckerman/articles/2010/06/18/mort-zuckerman-world-sees-obama-as-incompetent-and-amateur
Hopeless incompetent -- when I searched for this, I only came up articles regarding Britain (from 2007).
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2007/030707truthaboutterror.htm
World View of Obama: Impotent Leader -- this was from a US blog called God Bless America (from 2009, by the way)
http://pumasunleashed.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/world-view-of-obama-impotent-leader/
US World News is a repubitable site. Don't know about your - prison planet though
[ In Reply To ..]I didn't find the article there
God Bless America is okay too.
They are not "headlines from around - the world!" nm
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