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In reply to the discussion: Can we all agree, that any solution that does not require military action is great? [View all]DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)40. HOW TO SUCCEED IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING
Obama, Kerry Are Idiot Savants Of Foreign Policy As Syria Agrees To Surrender Chemical Weapons Like Soonish
WONKETTE
2:15 pm September 10, 2013
by Alex Ruthrauff
[font size=1]Secretary of State John Kerry emerges from peace talks with
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.[/font]*
"Goodnight, dear."The story so far: Barack Obama said: I am terrible at foreign policy, therefore I will say a bunch of stuff I only half-mean, such as that theres a red line, and that Im going to bomb everybody, but it will be obvious I dont want to, and everyone will think Im a moron.
Then John Kerry said: I am even worse at foreign policy than the president and I can say definitively that what is about to happen will never happen. (KERRY: [Assad] could turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week He isnt about to do it, and it cant be done, obviously.)
Then HUH!? Syria said: Here, actually you can have all our chemical weapons that we did not use and would never use, we are pretty good at murdering people without them after all.
Then Russia said: We are relevant again!
Then John McCain said: I would still like to bomb somebody, please.
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[font size=1]* - DeSwiss' Poetic License # 1234567[/font]
WONKETTE
2:15 pm September 10, 2013
by Alex Ruthrauff
[font size=1]Secretary of State John Kerry emerges from peace talks with
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.[/font]*
"Goodnight, dear."The story so far: Barack Obama said: I am terrible at foreign policy, therefore I will say a bunch of stuff I only half-mean, such as that theres a red line, and that Im going to bomb everybody, but it will be obvious I dont want to, and everyone will think Im a moron.
Then John Kerry said: I am even worse at foreign policy than the president and I can say definitively that what is about to happen will never happen. (KERRY: [Assad] could turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week He isnt about to do it, and it cant be done, obviously.)
Then HUH!? Syria said: Here, actually you can have all our chemical weapons that we did not use and would never use, we are pretty good at murdering people without them after all.
Then Russia said: We are relevant again!
Then John McCain said: I would still like to bomb somebody, please.
READ MORE »
[font size=1]* - DeSwiss' Poetic License # 1234567[/font]
- You know what the best part for me is? It's that I couldn't give a rat's ass who gets credit here. The eleventy-dimensional chess player. The iron-jawed SOS with a bad memory of what a war is. The mutant killer-dictator -- son of a mutant killer-dictator who is just like good ol' dad. The KGB agent who done good and became President of Valhalla. Not even John ''Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Iran'' McCain. It doesn't matter in the slightest. I'm just glad we won't be killing babies in Syria anytime soon.
So that just leaves the babies in Afghanistan, Yemen, Pakistan and of course, the US to worry about......
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Can we all agree, that any solution that does not require military action is great? [View all]
Logical
Sep 2013
OP
A lot of people knocked the stuffing out of the GOP symbol during the Bush Years.
Spitfire of ATJ
Sep 2013
#38
Sure, just give them a few billion dollars in aid for the chemical weapons and get it over with
Snake Plissken
Sep 2013
#22
Actually, it's not like they wouldn't be chugging around SOMEWHERE with full crews.
Spitfire of ATJ
Sep 2013
#25
Aaaa...yea but I would say that even if Mr. President hadn't rubbed my nose in the poopy tonight.
peace13
Sep 2013
#33
No I don't agree that ANY solution which does not require military action is great.
DrewFlorida
Sep 2013
#36
It must be nice to be SuperPower(tm) and not have to care about pesky contradictions.
delrem
Sep 2013
#45
Will we actually get a "solution", though, or will those in power just declare victory
hughee99
Sep 2013
#47
I predict Obama and Putin share the Nobel Peace Prize. Then truly the world will have seen
dimbear
Sep 2013
#48
That's all I care about, the avoidance of more war, of more blood on OUR hands
Dragonfli
Sep 2013
#50
Absolutely not. It's better than the alternative, but still utterly appalling.
Donald Ian Rankin
Sep 2013
#55