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Krauthammer: 'These are guys who couldn't organize a three-car funeral'

On Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier on Thursday night (which I was able to watch, but not to download), Charles Krauthammer blasted the Obama administration's efforts to organize a coalition to attack Syria, saying 'these are guys who couldn't organize a three-car funeral.'

In a Washington Post column, Krauthammer expands on the theme. 

Having leaked to the world, and thus to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a detailed briefing of the coming U.S. air attack on Syria — (1) the source (offshore warships and perhaps a bomber or two), (2) the weapon (cruise missiles), (3) the duration (two or three days), (4) the purpose (punishment, not “regime change”) — perhaps we should be publishing the exact time the bombs will fall, lest we disrupt dinner in Damascus.

So much for the element of surprise. Into his third year of dithering, two years after declaring Assad had to go, one year after drawing — then erasing — his own red line on chemical weapons, Barack Obama has been stirred to action.

Or more accurately, shamed into action. Which is the worst possible reason. A president doesn’t commit soldiers to a war for which he has zero enthusiasm. Nor does one go to war for demonstration purposes.

Want to send a message? Call Western Union. A Tomahawk missile is for killing. A serious instrument of war demands a serious purpose.

The purpose can be either punitive or strategic: either a spasm of conscience that will inflame our opponents yet leave not a trace, or a considered application of abundant American power to alter the strategic equation that is now heavily favoring our worst enemies in the heart of the Middle East.

Read the whole thing.

Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, epic fail, Syria

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:28 PM