We're So Sorry
Charles Krauthammer dicusses the fruits of Mr Apologist's whirlwind world tour:
No, Charles; we're having a bad four years.
At this rate, Jimmy Carter may actually get to move up out of last place. I had Hoped I'd not see that Change, but one should never underestimate the ability of a liberal Democrat to screw up on a truly epic scale.
Hey, Barry: can you juggle? How about stilts? Rhyming? Well, could you at least wear something appropriate the next time you leave the country? That way everybody will be clear exactly who we're sending to talk with them.
Our president came bearing a basketful of mea culpas. With varying degrees of directness or obliqueness, Obama indicted his own people for arrogance, for dismissiveness and derisiveness, for genocide, for torture, for Hiroshima, for Guantanamo and for insufficient respect for the Muslim world.
And what did he get for this obsessive denigration of his own country? He wanted more NATO combat troops in Afghanistan to match the surge of 17,000 Americans. He was rudely rebuffed.
He wanted more stimulus spending from Europe. He got nothing.
From Russia, he got no help on Iran. From China, he got the blocking of any action on North Korea.
And what did he get for Guantanamo? France, pop. 64 million, will take one prisoner. One! (Sadly, he'll have to leave his bridge partner behind.) The Austrians said they would take none. As Interior Minister Maria Fekter explained with impeccable Germanic logic, if they're not dangerous, why not just keep them in America?
When Austria is mocking you, you're having a bad week.
No, Charles; we're having a bad four years.
At this rate, Jimmy Carter may actually get to move up out of last place. I had Hoped I'd not see that Change, but one should never underestimate the ability of a liberal Democrat to screw up on a truly epic scale.
Hey, Barry: can you juggle? How about stilts? Rhyming? Well, could you at least wear something appropriate the next time you leave the country? That way everybody will be clear exactly who we're sending to talk with them.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 16:03
1 Comments:
The key to any negotiations is you have to be willing to walk away or take it to the next level. If you appear that you will not, you appear weak and you will never win concessions if you appear that you cannot, or will not affect the other party in a detrimental way. That is why Iran is building nukes, N. Korea is launching missiles, and NATO and G20 says no thank you to your proposals. Grow a pair.
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