What is it about aging former office holders that compels them to get in front of TV cameras and berate President Obama for failing to activate America’s fleet of death ray satellites that ceaselessly circle the globe to wipe out ISIS, along with all other non-“moderate” Syrian rebels, or perhaps for not slipping over to the Middle East in person and taking out the lot of them with the Vulcan nerve pinch?
I expect assholiness from Leon Panetta, because that’s his stock in trade, but since when did Jimbo turn into a neocon talking head programmed by William Kristol? Jimmy’s latest rant seems to make a fetish of hitting every single neocon lie talking point squarely on the head.
Of course, President Obama can only blame himself for the depth of the hole in which he now finds himself, because he and his administration, led by Vice President Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry, and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, did nine tenths of the digging. But why is Jimmy Carter so eager to start shoveling dirt in on top of them?
Afterwords
In Politico, Justin Logan explains why the Middle East is largely irrelevant to U.S. security. If Logan’s words of common sense convert more than three people in DC, it will be a major victory.
