September 10, 2013

Unprecedented ineptitude

I just wanted to put it on record that I cannot think of a case in my lifetime of a President being this inept at foreign policy (or anything else, for that matter).

The Obama administration has bungled the Syria thing completely. They say that when you sit down at a poker game, if you can't figure out who the sucker is, then you are the sucker. In this game Obama was the sucker, and he's being taken for a ride.

It would be amusing, were it not for the profound consequences for this nation. In a rational world, after fucking up this badly, a decent President would resign from office. But that's not something Obama would ever do.

And you're not supposed to impeach someone for being a damn fool. So we're stuck with a mortally wounded President for the next three and a half years. It isn't going to be fun.

UPDATE: Obviously, if Obama resigns, then Biden becomes president. I don't greet that prospect with optimism, but not even Slow Joe could be as utterly incompetent as Obama has turned out to be.

UPDATE: Now that I think more about it, there are two other candidates for the title: the Tehran embassy crisis, and Bay of Pigs.

I still think this one is worse, but it's a close run.

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