“I do not want to see Congress all of a sudden allow themselves be the fall guy, the scapegoat and the exit strategy for President Obama. He said something, and I’ll borrow the phrase from when he spoke about the Cambridge Police — he acted stupidly. He should not have said anything about red lines, and now he painted himself in a box and he is looking for every means of which he can get out of it. And if this was such an important issue...then why did he go and play golf on Saturday? Why is he not taking more responsibility?”Seriously...'FORE!' However, I've gotta say something about the 'all of a sudden' designation. Maybe in this particular case, but I think we can all count the many ways the congressional Republican leadership has voluntarily accepted the role of executive punching bag. I swear I hear the Boehner's and the McCain's whispering, 'Thank you, may I have another!' Speaking of...
This morning, West also slammed the 'useful tools' among the Republican establishment that are signing onto Obama's inept foreign policy...
"Watched Senators McCain and Graham’s press conference after their meeting with President Obama on the subject of Syria. It seems the tagline to be used is ‘degrade Assad and upgrade the resistance.’ I hate to be the one to ruin the party, but this administration did exactly that in Libya and never considered the unintended consequences.All that's going on here is Obama's trying to replace another manageable dictator with another unmanageable revolutionary terrorist regimes, because that's his warped idea of democracy. And what makes it worse is that we've got Republicans signing on right alongside their tow-the-line Democratic colleagues.
Now in Libya we have a proliferation of Islamist forces who are training terrorist insurgents to head to Syria, supported by the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda, as well as a consulate attack resulting in the death of four Americans, one being an Ambassador. In Egypt we ‘deposed’ Mubarak and enabled the Muslim Brotherhood and the unintended consequences are a civil war in Egypt and increased persecution of the Coptic Christians.
So here we go again with the Obama administration, and useful tools from Congress, embarking America on a nebulous endeavor in the Middle East without consideration of the untended consequences. The opposition in Syria are Islamists supported by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, and Al Qaeda, and the Muslim Brotherhood. The Obama administration has not supported the Free Syrian Army under COL Riad. NO, to any US military action in Syria. The Obama administration has a confused Middle East policy and has shown ineptness in understanding the second and third order effects."
Might be time to hand that Nobel Peace Prize back, ya think?
Related link: Allen West: Obama Fired Off His Mouth, Now Wants To Fire Missiles
