Syria: Obama is learning that not everyone is willing to live up to their own book - Granite Grok

Syria: Obama is learning that not everyone is willing to live up to their own book

Yeah, but this is what happens when it doesn’t work:

RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity’s very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)

It seems, however, that Obama has assumed that everyone would play by his playbook and, well, have “a book” that he could turn against them.  For his fumbling concerning Syria, this may be his Waterloo.  Prattling on about a “Red line” and “moral authority”  Obama has tried to make others just fall into line like good little doobies (no, not the kind that the Choom Gang was familiar with) with his use of RULE 10 (“If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.”).  He tried it with the American people who have rightly seen through it.  He has tried to force the Congress to “live up to its rule book”  but having been ignored, slighted, and bullied by him, it looks like they are growing a few hundred pair.  Plus, all of these elected officials are rightly worried about being seen  as favoring the same people that attacked us, Al Qaeda, and started us into 2 wars – and given how they have or are turning out, they are more concerned with their butts than Obama’s legacy or Presidency.

Or, have the blinders finally come off?

It has been a quite the sideshow watching the incompetency of Obama go Full Monty on both the domestic and world stage.  Oh to be sure, his minions within the expansive Leviathan called the Federal Government are moving us further and further away from Framers’ vision and desire to maximize individual Liberty and self-government with an emphasis “the common good” and experts “guiding” our decisions.  But on this man-made disaster (really, Obama-made disaster) called Syria, he now stands alone; nothing in his history or experience has readied him for when his Community Organizer (CO) philosophy and tactics are utterly failing.

A CO  is not proper training to be CINC (Commander In Chief); when one leads as CINC, one does it clearly, with stated, verifiable goals, and stands out front with a willingness to take on that responsibility publicly.  While success may accrue to others (well, given how President Narcissist Obama took credit for taking out OBL, perhaps not), CINC is also willing to take the blame.

In other words, to stand alone regardless of the events and reality.  Obama can’t do that and it shows. He only knows how to lead from behind which is to say, not leading at all. A CC is always in the background, egging others on, always having others do the dirty work as he pulls the strings from behind the scenes.  Very hard to do when he craves the attention of being President, the most powerful person in the world – but it is clear that when he no longer has the requisite CC crowd around him (or those outside of “his crowd” that will fall for RULE 9: “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”).

He failed by doing nothing during the Iranian Green Revolution when the “moderates” protested against the Islamist mullahs.  He failed when he argued against the surge in Iraq, and then pulled out the US Forces (prematurely, IMHO) and Iraq is now barely hanging on.  There, Obama may still be saddled with its defeat as Islamists are gaining strength.  He took the US into Libya and that is now a freaking disaster – much worse off now than under Khadaffi by any measure and in being yet another failing (if not failed) State, another Islamist  haven for those that hate us.  He failed in Egypt too, favoring the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood instead of those that started that Arab Spring that truly wanted a more classic Western liberal democracy.

And now, another failure – and outright siding with Islamist jihadis once again.  His military strategy is crap – there is no way that what he says he wants, to degrade chemical stocks, cannot be part and parcel of what he says is not his strategy which is to favor either the rebels or Assad.  It is nothing less than dreamy lunacy – and the domestic and international watchers know it.  Every word out of his mouth drives him deeper into a political quagmire

Sidenote: best illustration was SecState “Lurch” Kerry floundering during his Congressional testimony and then turning to Joint Chief Dempsey and asking for help in the argument – and getting a brush off (er, payback from Kerry’s Viet Nam comments?)

and everyone is backing away.  His emphasis on the “international book” and the “international red line” has been ignored and dismissed; there is no cadre of the unwilling following him.  You can’t use Community Organizer tactics on people who don’t care, who cannot be threatened by Obama in any way, and are now publicly making fun of him and his Administration (e.g., Putin is now using both RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” and RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”  Obama is now bearing the brunt of the ridicule for his obvious running away from his “red line” comment and subsequently becoming a cowboy by looking to  political rope in others – and we see yet another failure on the world stage by them ignoring him.

Must be rather daunting and devastating to Obama who pretty much got everything he tried during his first two years with a Dem stacked House and Senate and now facing rejection 360.  He has only himself to blame – and those that decided to bet on a guy that had no skillz other than having a 50,000 watt smile and a tremendous ability to read TOTUS.

You know, I have maintained that Obamacare was built to fail – not just because it was a bad law followed by freedom hating regulations but designed to fail such that Statists would say “we need more Government to save us all from the disaster that has befallen us” and push for their wet dream of a single payer system.  With this, perhaps a Preference Cascade may start such that there might be such revulsion, it just might get repealed after all.  Or, perhaps it is time just to go to bed.

Problem is, in the long term, it is we, the American people, that will ultimately pay the price (and for many of our countrymen, already paying the price).

 

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