America's Broad Astanding
Published By: All Right Magazine on January 23, 2009
By LARRY WILKE
2009-01-23
“I believe with all of my heart that this is
a new era for America.” No truer words have ever been spoken by America’s
rookie Secretary of State.
Already this “new era” has seen the liberal leader promise to bring “home”
all of the misunderstood Middle East miscreants known to the rest of us as
terrorists from the “hateful” confides of Guantanamo Bay, as their rooms at the
Ritz await them. No more imaginary tales of flushed Korans and “cruel”
waterboarding; the liberals just want all of their compatriots closer to their
American targets so they can make a “level playing field” for their bet as to
who can destroy America first, the terrorists or themselves.
Rodham gave her little pep talk to the assembled underlings in order to
underscore the “administration’s commitment to diplomacy.” The conservative
interpretation of that is, “our willingness to have ‘peace in our time’.” With
this “commitment” to “talk,” Obama should have chosen Oprah as his Secretary of
State. After all, Oprah has as much experience as Rodham does. With all of this
“talk show diplomacy” in the offing, we should simply sell off all of our
military hardware and we will use the cash to buy some comfy couches, some
glazed chintz for the walls and some wonderful votive candles for our new
Secretary and her “ruminations and rap sessions” with Hamas and Al-Qaeda.
This is going to be a “new era of robust U.S. diplomacy (talk) to tackle the
world’s crises and improve America’s standing abroad.” The Obama
administration, like the Obama campaign, is and will be standing proof of the
adage that “talk is cheap.” Can’t wait for the “hot air strikes” and the
“syllabic sorties” of “Rodham’s Raiders.”
Why are we concerned now with “tackling the world’s crises”? Didn’t the
liberals say that our “interventionist” policies were what made our country the
target of terrorism? (We all know that that was and is tripe, but that is what
the progressive pansies said.) Just how “interventionist” is Obama going to be?
Since when did the liberals suddenly adopt the “we are the world’s policeman”
philosophy? Never mind that Rodham is zaftig enough to play tackle, the
liberals, who know what’s best for YOU, now know what’s best for the WORLD,
whether they like it or not. The real problem will end up being “America’s
broad astanding.”
Rodham wants to “seize our opportunities” and she wants everyone to “think
outside of the proverbial box.” This involves thinking outside of the
pusillanimous Pandora’s Box of liberal appeasement, no small order for a gaggle
of Democrats. “I want you to give me the best advice you can.” Let’s pick the
best ending for that last sentence: “because I have absolutely no idea what I
am doing” (otherwise known as the Obama administration mantra.) or “because if
you don’t, you will all end up like Ron Brown or Vince Foster.”
Rodham unleashed a patented howler by saying, out loud no less, “I want you
to understand there is nothing I welcome more than a good debate.” That is
about as ridiculous as Rosie O’Donnell saying that she likes a “good man,” a
“good book” or a “good diet.” “A good debate,” unlike the ones she flubbed
during the primary season. “A good debate,” similar to the ones she has with
Bill when he gets caught after embellishing the outfit of yet another female
intern.
Rodham spoke of “the importance of defense, diplomacy and development — the
three legs of the stool of American foreign policy.” The unfortunate thing is
the Rodham State Department is responsible for two of those legs. In the spirit
of collectivist share the wealth liberalism, at least one other liberal will be
responsible for the demise of the nation’s defense. When the softies starts
talking about stools, Barney Frank usually ends up running into the room and
turning all of them over so that all of the liberals have a place to sit.
When you have complete beginners running every element of the government,
there becomes an internal desperation to assemble a supporting staff with
something remotely resembling experience. With that in mind, Rodham has tapped
Richard Holbrooke as a “special envoy” to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Holbrooke
does have experience but it is the kind of experience that the pacifist
liberals may not approve of.
Here is a quote from Holbrooke during his farewell press conference to the
United Nations on January 11, 2001. “Iraq will be one of the major issues
facing the incoming Bush administration. Saddam Hussein’s activities continue
to be unacceptable and, in my view, dangerous to the region and, indeed to the
world, not only because he possesses the potential for weapons of mass
destruction but because of the very nature of his regime. His willingness to be
cruel internally is not unique in the world, but the combination of that and
his willingness to export his problems makes him a clear and present danger at
all times.”
If we dissect the “potential for weapons of mass destruction,” (nuclear
versus the obvious biological weapons of mass destruction that he repeatedly
used.) and the “cruel internally” (the libs just can’t bring themselves to
consider mass graves anything other “cruel internally,” so that’s about as good
as it gets.) and we remember how Rodham herself along with other liberal
luminaries like Bill, Kerry and Edwards, to name but a few, all found Hussein
to be conveniently scary when it came to useless saber rattling and pedantic
posturing. These traits will undoubtedly be the hallmarks of the budding Obama
diplomatic corps.
Also brought into the fold is the former majority leader George Mitchell who
has been tasked with the responsibility of being the special envoy to the
Middle East. Mitchell’s last full time job was that of Chairman of the Walt
Disney company. There we see the application of direct experience as it seems
that Mitchell has considerable experience in dealing with Mickey Mouse
organizations, so he should fit right in.
Never one to temper her lunacy, Rodham conclude with “we are no longer going
to tolerate the kind of divisiveness that has paralyzed and undermined out
ability to get things done for America.” Considering that the liberals have
actively and intentionally encouraged “the kind of divisiveness” that has
separated the races and the genders for generations, this new “intolerance” is
a refreshing “change.”
As the neophyte administration deals “with particularly vexing problems
abroad,” I will bet that they will be dealing with the “problems” of a
“particularly vexing broad” that they have for some unknown reason made the
Secretary of State.
LARRY WILKE is a part-time cynic and full-time curmudgeon residing in St. Louis. Read more at www.noleftturnz.com.
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