Get the headline and blurb, then read the story: Seems “…
the people to whom this President listens look like kids who have taken over the principal’s office, ones who apparently think they can treat the rest of us like suckers.”
Well maybe they are suckers – question is, is Lupica one of them or is he playing to an audience he knows to be suckers and idiots?
Consider this: Comparing current events to Cheney-Bush and “… their mission to take out another regional thug, Saddam Hussein, one who in retrospect looks no more unhinged or dangerous than Putin is presently.”
HUM, so Putin is equated to Saddam Hussein, and Hussein was attacked because he was holding down oil prices (which the Saudis didn’t like – and, in exchange for his Desert Storm debacle, after his term expired, paid Bush Sr. lots of no-show money through their Canadian operation). Saddam was also holding the line against al-Qaeda, the other emerging terrorist groups and Iran – so George Jr put an end to that and we had twelve years of war, a doubling of the National Debt, excessive oil prices (again making Saudis happy) and Iran was free to explore the Nuclear Option.
Funny thing about the Saudis involvement with oil and the Bushes, the whole WAR ON TERROR was begun when Bush gave visas to 19 Saudis who then destroyed the World Trade Center, attacked the Pentagon, tried to attack the White House (funny how that was the plane that didn’t make it) and killed about 4,000 Americans.
Saudis pay Bush Sr., destroy WTC, amazingly fail in their alleged attempt to attack Bush Jr. and suddenly all the Saudis oil competitors are out of business – especially the one that was making sure oil prices stayed low.
Anyway, Lupica equates Putin to Hussein – and asserts “This doesn’t mean that Barack Obama should have threatened to start a war with Russia. He wasn’t about to do that any more than the sainted Ronald Reagan was going to do that when Russia shot a Korean Air commercial jet out of the sky 30 years ago.”
Lupica simply infers direct Russian involvement in the downing of a Dutch commercial airliner stupidly flown over a Civil War zone in the Ukraine. Of course, Lupica fails to mention other Ukrainian war planes which were downed in the weeks prior to the event – or to establish that the airliner did all in its power to inform those in the ground that it was foreign, commercial and civilian – and not a high altitude Ukrainian bomber.
Hey – we need to beat-up on Russia in the same way we have for six decades, and exercise any excuse to hamper or otherwise diminish Obama’s ability to conduct foreign diplomacy is right in keeping with Right-wing political motives ultimately aimed at the destruction of America.
How do we accomplish the destruction of America? Try destroy Europe! Or any region upon which our economy depends. Lupica would achieve this through this suggestion: “if the evidence is as good as we have been told, the President and his chief European allies must deliver the message that they are quite willing to bring down the Russian economy — and the billionaires it has produced, if necessary — if that’s what it takes to remove Russia’s president from power.”
Let’s see, we bring down the Russian economy, that removes Russia as a necessary allied power in ongoing Middle Eastern talks/negotiations with Iran. If those talks fail, then we could see additional violence in the Middle East – compounding the Jihadist military actions in Syria and Gaza, while strengthening the ISIS takeover of Iraq.
HUM – so the Middle Eastern powder Keg explodes … and then, as Russia folds, so does 30% of the energy it supplies to Europe … GEE and the European economy goes where?
Compounding that energy stoppage with the stoppage of oil from Iraq, Iran, and closing of the pipelines through Syria … how much of Europe’s energy vanishes?
And what of the Saudis? Maybe the looming sectarian civil war that they have, to date, successfully prevented can finally be fought – the royal family can then flee to some ‘safe’ location and all of the world’s major oil supplies are suddenly in the hands of anti-American terrorist groups.
YEP Lupica is dead on in the wisdom of his suggestion and criticism of Obama’s handling of Putin – as Putin sits and watches developments in the Ukraine and takes the very threatening step of authorizing a new Gambling District in the Crimea vacation resort area which has recently decided it prefers to be Russian rather than Ukrainian … and basically recognizes that it was Russian until Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev decided he didn’t want it.
So basically, Lupica is complaining because Obama isn’t forcing a continuation of a Communist Territorial decision that was made around the time Obama was born.
For that, Lupica, and apparently the New York Daily News as well, would like to see the world economy destroyed and the Jihadists move closer to fulfillment of the Koran mandate to kill all the “Bad Christians”.
Ah the fun.