This guy is easily the most incompetent person to hold the office of our presidency. To have made a statement like this is both outrageous and astounding.
At least in Iraq, there were national security implications; here, there are none. In Iraq, Saddam had committed atrocities, but also had led the US around by the nose for ten years, violating time and again the terms of the cease fire agreement he had entered into. In Iraq, there was no "shot across the bow" after which we haul ass, pre-announced, so as to insure that the leadership could hunker down and safely ignore the consequences of their actions. Whatever mistakes were made in Iraq were made after the war started, not before.
When you telegraph, up front, that you are going to launch a few cruise missiles but you aren't willing to commit yourself to the operation, you are just asking for it.
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"If, in fact, we can take limited, tailored approaches, not getting drawn into a long conflict, not a repetition of, you know, Iraq, which I know a lot of people are worried about," Obama said. "But if we are saying in a clear and decisive but very limited way — we send a shot across the bow saying, 'stop doing this' — that can have a positive impact on our national security over the long term, and may have a positive impact on our national security over the long term and may have a positive impact in the sense that chemical weapons are not used again on innocent civilians." |
