– You Just Can’t Make This Stuff Up –
Obama’s Syria / ISIS Plan:
√ Step One – Tell New York Times : “It’s always been a fantasy,” he said, “this idea that we could provide some light arms or even more sophisticated arms to what was essentially an opposition made up of former doctors, farmers, pharmacists and so forth.”
√ Step Two – Go Golfing (vacation)
√ Step Three – Interrupt vacation – Tell Media it’s horrible to see U.S. Journalists beheaded.
√ Step Four – More Golf.
√ Step Five – End vacation – Announce you have no plan/strategy to deal with ISIS in Syria.
√ Step Six – Conduct Polling
√ Step Seven – Apologize for golfing while U.S. journalists are beheaded by ISIS, and announce goal to develop a plan to deal with ISIS in Syria – details later.
√ Step Eight – Review Polling Data – Keep results super secret.
√ Step Nine – Call in MSNBC contributors to assemble sales pitch to deal with ISIS.
√ Step Ten – Construct marketing plan to sell the previously dismissed approach. We will now “provide some light arms or even more sophisticated arms to what was essentially an opposition made up of former doctors, farmers, pharmacists and so forth.” in Syria.
√ Step Eleven – Call in congressional leadership to inform them his MSNBC team has “got this” plan, are ready to sell it, and he doesn’t need congress. (link)
Step Twelve – Tell American electorate in prime-time speech to the nation how providing arms to the “moderate Syrian forces” will insure success in Syria.
TODAY – (Today was step eleven) President Obama told congressional leaders on Tuesday he won’t need their authorization to expand his military campaign against Islamic State terrorists.
Obama offered the assurance at a private White House meeting one day before a primetime address he’s scheduled to give to the nation. (link)