Look at that - it's like the man's a genius or something!
So, this basically acts as a continuation of Friday's "What IS he trying to do?" - post.
Now that the world has seen the complete & utter incomprehensible incompetence of The One in relation to the domestic American economy, any ability to relate to the will of the American People, and now have a good sampling of his clumsy, club-footed and largely spineless forays into what should have been fairly straight-forward foreign policy matters....
Some of the larger and more immediately-scary players on the world stage have decided to take Joe Biden's advice and test our "overwhelmed" Commander-in-Chief.
First it was the Chinese deciding that this would be a good time to start playing 'chicken' with US Naval ships.
"...one of the Chinese ships came within 25 feet (7.5 meters) of the USNS Impeccable, a surveillance vessel designed to support anti-submarine warfare, and that the Chinese crew tried to snag the cables that tow the ship's underwater sonars."
Naturally when the inevitable protests came, the Chinese fell back on that old chestnut that has worked so well all over the world -
"It's America's Fault""Ma said U.S. naval ships must ask China's permission anytime they sailed within its exclusive economic zone, a 200-nautical-mile zone off its shores. The claim amounted to an assertive attempt to bar U.S. Navy vessels from approaching China's shores, even affecting transit of the sensitive Taiwan Strait."
...and why not?
After all, given
Obama's grovelling apology to terrorist-supplying Muslim countries during the first post-inauguration-days, Ma has to figure that his approach runs at least even-odds of being successful - maybe even to the extent of getting
The
One to throw Taiwan under the bus in a
Carter/Panama-Canal-esque reflex action.
But, in the sense of "If Some is Good, then More is Better"...
Smelling buffoonery in the water - the
North Koreans have now queued-up for their helping of whatever -else-will-be-given-away...
"North Korea on Monday cut its military hotline to Seoul and put its million-man army at battle stations, ratcheting up tensions as South Korean and US troops began war games that Pyongyang warned could spark open conflict.
North Korea’s official KCNA news agency quoted an army spokesman as saying: “It is nonsensical to maintain the normal channels of communication when the South Korean puppets are in a frenzy about these military exercises, levelling their guns at fellow countrymen in league with foreign forces.”
Now, the whole point-of and motivation-for all of this should be intuitively obvious to even the most casual observer.
China and N.Korea, having watched
(along with the rest of us) Obama begin systemic capitulation to Iran AND initiate the alienation of our closest allies AND take the necessary steps to ensure that the US economy will soon render us unable to continue defending our neighbors and allies - have decided to belly-up to the bar to see what sort of fire-sale bargains they can rattle or threaten out of us.
Makes sense, really - it's not like he's given them any reason to believe it
won't work.
... and I might be wrong, but I don't think
"I Won" is going cut it.
- MuscleDaddy
P.S. - Note to the BDS-afflicted: This same sort of business that has Obama 'overwrought' and trying to find his own ...ahem... with a flashlight?Same stuff that George W. dealt with - every day...
Just sayin' is all.