Of all the depressing detritus and flotsam populating the effluvia spilling from the wreck of ideologically driven idiocy that is the Obama presidency his claiming in a peevish snit to a hapless reporter the other day that it wasn't his idea to leave Iraq is potentially the most galling of the sad lot - he explicitly ran on the promise to get out of Iraq, he bragged about having done that once it was done, he put out campaign material in 2012 lauding the brave new war free world his brilliance had created - the brazenly cynical point of covering up Benghazi was to keep this whole ‘I end wars’ illusion/delusion alive - it’s public freaking record for christ sake that he scorned the opinions of military leaders who advised against a complete withdrawal - since running away he has twice rejected pleas from Maliki to come back, the second of which had to do with the baleful rise of ISIS, a rise which the military advised him would require an American presence to stop and advice which he once again ignored - and now he wants to claim it wasn't his idea to get out of Iraq? Somebody please tell me - is this man delusional, so locked in his little liberal echo chamber that he actually believes that everything he says is more or less true regardless of how false it may be? Or is this the behaviour of a person so utterly convinced of the media’s desire to protect him that like some horribly spoiled miscreant child he feels he can do and say whatever the hell he pleases?
[and while we're on this whole indulgent media/Iraq thing - is it true that in Friedman interview Obama claimed that he was surprised about how Libya fell apart and that his biggest regret was not paying enough attention to something resembling a post war plan? Are you fucking kidding me? The man made his career by opposing the Iraq war, a GLARING frickin' example of the problems that ensue when you do not properly plan for the post hostilities phase - and he was surprised by Libya? Everyone who opposed Libya as a foolish, ill conceived, strategically flawed misadventured said that the half in, half out leading from behind model would bring ya nothing but chaos and a failed state - all of us who called Libya stupid pointed at Iraq and said the one clear lesson to be learned from the removal of Saddam was that the post war plan was just as important if not more so than the war plan itself - we all saw the inherent problems associated with 'lead from behind' thinking - and what's more all of us who opposed Libya pointed to the Arab Spring and said Iraq teaches us that the toppling of these regimes does not lead to freedom and democracy flowering in the Muslim world - it leads to trouble, upheaval and extremism returning in a different form. And yet Obama was surprised by Libya? Give me a fucking break. And let me guess - Friedman didn't challenge this absurd statement - I suppose I could go read the interview but I can't stand that lapdog Friedman - but I'll take a wild guess and say he didn't challenge this astoundingly absurd statement from Obama]
[and while we're on this whole indulgent media/Iraq thing - is it true that in Friedman interview Obama claimed that he was surprised about how Libya fell apart and that his biggest regret was not paying enough attention to something resembling a post war plan? Are you fucking kidding me? The man made his career by opposing the Iraq war, a GLARING frickin' example of the problems that ensue when you do not properly plan for the post hostilities phase - and he was surprised by Libya? Everyone who opposed Libya as a foolish, ill conceived, strategically flawed misadventured said that the half in, half out leading from behind model would bring ya nothing but chaos and a failed state - all of us who called Libya stupid pointed at Iraq and said the one clear lesson to be learned from the removal of Saddam was that the post war plan was just as important if not more so than the war plan itself - we all saw the inherent problems associated with 'lead from behind' thinking - and what's more all of us who opposed Libya pointed to the Arab Spring and said Iraq teaches us that the toppling of these regimes does not lead to freedom and democracy flowering in the Muslim world - it leads to trouble, upheaval and extremism returning in a different form. And yet Obama was surprised by Libya? Give me a fucking break. And let me guess - Friedman didn't challenge this absurd statement - I suppose I could go read the interview but I can't stand that lapdog Friedman - but I'll take a wild guess and say he didn't challenge this astoundingly absurd statement from Obama]
