When Even Chris 'Thrill Up My Leg' Matthews Is Incredulous, Duh' Prezident Has Lost His Last Shred Of Credibility

Chris Matthews listens incredulously while some blondie 30-something with an East Coast Liberal Arts Degree Paid For By Grandaddy's Trust Fund patiently explains that if all those 17-year-old Muslim boys just had good jobs or the ability to start their own businesses--well then all our ISIS troubles would just melt away. He can't believe what he's hearing, and for the first time in his groveling career, actually grows a pair and seriously questions one of Massah Obama's minions. Blondie does not fare well…

OS listens incredulously, because he remembers how Massah Obama's sycophants excoriated Condaleeza Rice for outlining her own vision for fundamental transformation of the Middle East. They, including Matthews, were merciless toward her, and their contempt was directed at her very person.

At least her boss, with all his faults, did have an understanding of who Islamic Jihadists are, and that often the solution is to kill them, and always to identify who they are by what drives their behaviors.

When he left office, Iraq was a highly imperfect situation with some real pockets of hope. Syria was rein by a repressive dictator who basically kept himself to himself--a bad guy, but not a daily source of crisis. Libya was run by an egomaniac, but it was not in chaos. Ditto Egypt. Not a great situation, but not in complete chaos.

If Blondie is the best this administration can recruit, and her vision of a McDonald's job for every young jihadist is the best idea they can float, then all of us everywhere are in a boatload of trouble. And the people most at risk from the jihadists are young women, at the mercy of a violent ideology that looks upon them as chattel.

Of course, that little fact wasn't covered in the Wimmen's Studies curriculum of her  East Coast Liberal Arts Degree Paid For By Grandaddy's Trust Fund…therefore not worthy of consideration.

Heaven help us. Our President is useless at best, and we have two more years of Himself ahead of us.

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And, to counterbalance all this unpleasantry--at least we can rejoice that the President's golf game is flourishing. Why, even this morning, ABC News pointed out that Dwight Eisenhower received his share of flak for playing so much golf. Hmmmm, so does that make Himself a President on par with Ike, the man who launched the Normandy invasion. Well, if you work for ABC news, it must...

Meanwhile, in the real world--

From today's UK Telegraph:

Jihadist fighters captured a major military air base in northeastern Syria on Sunday, removing the last government-held post in a province the extremists claim as part of their new "Islamic State". 

The storming of Tabqa air field, a major government military facility containing several squadrons of planes, helicopters, tanks and artillery, is a significant victory for the Islamic State of the Iraq and the Levant (Isil).

"Some of the Syrian regime troops pulled out, and now the Islamic State is in full control of Tabqa," said Rami Abdurrahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. "This makes Raqqa province the first to fully fall out of government hands."

At least 500 fighters from both sides were reported to have died in the fighting over recent days, with casualties among Isil forces said to be running twice as high as among the government troops. 

There were reports of celebratory gunfire in Raqqa, Isil's central stronghold in Syria, after mosques announced through their loudspeakers that the base had fallen to the Islamists. A witness told the Reuters news agency that fighters displayed the severed heads of Syrian army soldiers in the city square. 

The jihadists, who have grown in strength and numbers throughout Syria's continuing civil war against the regime of Bashar al-Assad, are now unchallenged in the north east of the country.
Their control has given them access to the regions plentiful oil resources, from which they generate an estimated monthly income of more than $20 million (£12 million) - enabling them also to sweep into neighbouring Iraq.

Located just 25 miles from Raqqa, Tabqa military base had been besieged for several weeks, forcing the Syrian regime to supply its trapped soldiers by parachute.
In recent days however, Isil stepped up its campaign, dispatching suicide bombers to breach the base's outer wall - including, according to its social media accounts on Friday, Sufian al Omar, a 14-year-old boy who it claimed had joined his father in a "suicide operation" at Tabqa.

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Or, do we sit meekly by while assured by Himself and all his apologists that this incident, however unfortunate, is not truly demonstrative of the nature of Islam, and that these bad things could never ever ever ever ever happen here.

We will also have carefully explained to us that this brutality is all George Bush's fault, that no one could possible expect Himself, halfway through his second term in office, to have had any responsibility for this modern-day repeat of the Cambodian slaughter of the mid-1970's.

Archbishop Amel Nona has seen the evil, and calls it so: Cranmer`

Cranmer is once again in fine form.

In the face of the tragedies that have overtaken the Christians of the Middle East, he is sounding the alarm, and giving a platform to those on the ground who cry at the top of their lungs about what awaits us in the West, unless we pay attention now.

Today's post focuses on the Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Mosul, Amel Nona. Feel free to ignore whatever OS might spout, but please take this man's words to heart:

"Our sufferings are the prelude of all Europeans and Western Christians"
"I lost my diocese to Islamic radicals"
"Your liberal and democratic principles are worth nothing here"
"You are welcoming in your countries an ever growing number of Muslims - you are in danger"
"You think all men are equal, but that is not true: Islam does not say that all men are equal"
"Your values are not their values"
"You will become the victims of the enemy you have welcomed in your home"

For all his failings, G. W. Bush came to understand and publicly assert one fact: If there is to be a battle with militant Islam, best to take the battle to them, and win it over there. Waiting for disaster to strike, here or there, is not a strategy.

Barack Obama, for his part, has spent his life in pursuit of the Next Election. He was so eager to get out of Iraq in time for 2012, never giving a thought to potential consequences. He threw hundreds of thousands of innocents under the bus, leaving them to their fate.

He referred to ISIL as 'the junior varsity'. No mention anywhere of that these days...

'Leading from behind' is just a polite term for 'abdication of responsibility'.