GOP HAWK'S COMMENTS OF OBAMA BEING WEAK...FOR THE BIRDS

 

…Conservative Op-Ed writer, Marc Thiessen.

 

I guess I shouldn’t expect anything different from someone that was a speech writer for George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, but Mr. Marc A. Thiessen, the conservative op-ed writer for the Washington Post is being appropriately a war-monger, just like many of his other conservative mouth pieces.

Mr. Thiessen is currently following and using the conservative “talking points”, saying that the president is being, “tepid and only showing inaction” toward Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

Even though he mouths these words, which are curiously, exactly the same words that are being used by the other congressional hawks such as Senators; John McCain and Lindsay Graham, as well as 40+ GOP House Representatives and a host of Fox News Hosts. 

Isn’t it interesting that these people are able to “channel” each other so well, that that are able to all use exactly the same words and even with the same phrasing.  Talk about the blind leading the blind, or in this case, the blind leading all the lemmings.

Any time any one of these individuals gets a real thought of their own, that particular individual will then be quickly thrown out of their exclusive lemmings club.

Now, even though Mr. Thiessen has this to say about the current president, at the same time he spent about 75% of his latest column in talking-up Ms. Samantha Power, the current US Ambassador to the United Nations.

It is amazing how much he is impressed with what Ms. Power had to say about the Russian leader, and what she was saying to the UN General Assembly.

This is also where Thiessen says that President Obama only mentioned Putin once in his initial comments about the shooting down of the Malaysian plane in the Ukraine. 

But he totally showered compliments on Ms. Power when he quoted her saying she, “…delivered a searing indictment of Russia to the U.N. Security Council, laying responsibility for this barbarous act exactly where it belongs — at Putin’s feet. ‘Time after time, President Putin has committed to working towards dialogue and peace,’ Power declared, ‘And every single time, he has broken that commitment.’

Power told the Security Council that the plane was likely shot down by an SA-11 missile and that ‘it is unlikely that the separatists could effectively operate the system without . . . technical assistance from Russian personnel in operating the systems.’

He then added that she said that, “…Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday that Russia had in fact trained the separatists in how to use the missile, while Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon spokesman, went even further, raising the possibility that the Russian military had actually fired the missile.”

Thiessen just couldn’t stop himself when he continued with, “Power also accused Putin of providing separatists with tanks, armored vehicles, rocket launchers, man-portable air defense systems, mines and grenades — noting that many weapons captured by Ukrainian forces included “accompanying documentation verifying the Russian origin. Power charged Putin with holding Ukrainian prisoners in Russia on behalf of separatists. She cited recent shoot-downs in Ukrainian airspace of a Ukrainian Air Force cargo plane and a Ukrainian fighter jet and said the Ukrainian government believes “that these planes were fired on from Russian territory.”

And she declared of the downing of Flight 17: ‘We have a duty to each and every one of those individuals, their families and their countries to determine why that jet fell out of the sky and to hold the perpetrators accountable. . . . This appalling attack occurred in the context of a crisis and has been fueled by Russian support for separatists . . . and by the Russian failure to follow through on its commitments and by its failure to adhere to the fundamental principles of the U.N. Charter. . . . This war can be ended. Russia can end this war. Russia must end this war.’……  Wow.’ ”

This man was showing so much support for Ms. Power, I think that for a while, he had forgotten that she wasn’t a conservative Republican and to whom Ms. Power actually reports.

Throughout Mr. Thiessen’s column, you would have thought he was writing a thoughtful and sincere article about a fellow American conservative working at the United Nations.

This writer usually only respects the “Dick Cheney types” of leaders that only talk the bluster of war and of killing.  This conservative, as with most Republican politicians,  doesn’t seem to understand it’s not a good idea for the most powerful man in the world, to directly use the kind of language and comments that is best offered to the public by the world leader’s subordinates.

It’s a whole lot different for a UN Ambassador to be talking about accusing another major world leader of heinous crimes, versus having those words and insinuations coming out of the other world leader’s actual mouth.

Doesn’t this great speech writer of a previous US president know that these statements by Ms. Power were all staged for having it made crystal clear to Mr. Putin, as to exactly what President Obama feels about Mr’ Putin’s actions, but to do it through his UN surrogate…?  This approach allows for the information to be communicated to Putin and the world without directly challenging Putin like making a challenge for a duel.  Thiessen obviously doesn’t understand that this is not the "dueling times of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr".

I find it very telling that a presidential speech writer really didn’t see that this allowed the president, through the world stage of the United Nations, to say to the world that , “Mr. Putin, we know what you are doing and we are telling it all to the world.”

In saying all those wonderful things he had to say about what Ms. Power was saying, Thiessen was actually complimenting the president for having it said directly to Putin and the Russian people.

Thiessen was so dense, he even went on to say, “Our U.N. ambassador is sounding like Ronald Reagan while our president is sounding like Jimmy Carter. It seems Obama has become so accustomed to projecting weakness that he can’t even seem to muster a strongly worded statement.”

Apparently Mr. Thiessen, you aren’t aware that all of the UN Ambassador’s statements such as this have to be cleared through the White House, and I don’t mean by a lower-level WH flunkie.  I mean the man at the top.
 

Mr. Thiessen then stated, “Inaction has consequences. If Obama does nothing in the face of Putin’s actions, our inaction could have consequences far from Ukraine.”  Just as the wrong knee-jerk action could be even worse.

By the way, just what-the-hell kind of action does Mr. Thiessen want?

He is sounding just like all the McCain’s, Graham’s and other GOP hawks and all those talking-heads on Fox News.

Haven’t these guys got this country into enough very expensive wars?  Oh I forgot, Thiessen worked for Dubya Bush and Dick Cheney....that explains it all.

I’m not saying that we shouldn’t stand up for what’s right, but you don’t look at every problem as a nail, and the US as the obvious hammer.

Mr. Thiessen needs to remember, years ago, when the Korean Airliner was blown out of the sky, Ronald Reagan did not immediately declare war on Russia (In fact, it took Reagan 4 days to even say anything at all.), and neither will Obama today.  There are better ways to deal with Putin. 

Remember, Putin is the real bully here, not Obama and the US.
 

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