Headline of the week (Foreign Policy Magazine):
European governments “completely puzzled” about U.S. position on Libya
Quote of the week (Hillary Clinton to the G8 foreign ministers.)
“There are difficulties.”
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppel: “Qu’est que c’est?”
In context? Sure.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s meetings in Paris with the G8 foreign ministers on Monday left her European interlocutors with more questions than answers about the Obama administration’s stance on intervention in Libya.
—snip—
Sarkozy told Clinton that “we need action now” and she responded to him, “there are difficulties,” the source said, explaining that Clinton was referring to China and Russia’s opposition to intervention at the United Nations. Sarkozy replied that the United States should at least try to overcome the difficulties by leading a strong push at the U.N., but Clinton simply repeated, “There are difficulties.”
Translation?
OK.
“There are difficulties” involved with:
1-Dealing with the massive suspended hammer of U.S. debt to the Chinese. Don’t want to displease the banker who holds your note, especially when it is long overdue.
2-The U.S. has no more troops to spare. Not without further harming the obviously failing campaign in Afghanistan. Hardware? Naval and air support? Sure, but Obama’s political capital is already seriously overdrawn in the U.S. and in case it has slipped people’s minds, there is a national presidential election campaign coming ’round the bend. Soon. As in…yesterday.
3-Obama himself is a middleman. That is, in any disagreement he takes the center and then waits for the edges to come to some sort of compromise. Make an independent decision himself? We’re still waiting.
“There are difficulties?”
A masterpiece of understatement.
Bet on it.
Translation?
My pleasure.
“Your turn, fellas. We through wid dat shootin’ shit.”
Bet on that as well.
Aerial and seagoing support only.
Watch.
AG
Oh.
I wish I could’ve been there.
Yes, she is a tool of the PermaGov Empire.
That is her chosen job.
The PermaGov ain’t going away anytime soon, no matter how fervently the leftinesses may wish for that occurrence to happen. I suspect that she’s not going away very soon either, despite all statements to the contrary.
Hillary’s main saving grace?
I think that she must have a wicked sense of humor.
Priceless.
Sometimes I think that Clinton and Obama is one of the great comedy teams of the American Century.
Really.
Guess which one’s the straight man.
(Hint: It ain’t Hillary.)
Timing.
Is.
Everything.
Bet on it.
AG
Regarding the freeing of CIA wetwork guy Raymond Davis in Pakistan after he offed several Pakistanis who either were or were not trying to rip him off and simultaneously either were or were not assassination targets. (The Schroedinger’s Cat idea, all gussied up and made into national policy.)
Said publicly and with an (almost) perfectly straight face.
Whadda talent!!!
The full line?
Sure.
From Politico.
Man.
I wonder…does she have writers or is she making it up as she goes?
Either way…the Jack Benny of politics.
(You were never sure with him either. Not really.)
Disambiguation?
Not possible with her.
The ambiguity is simultaneously too deep and too in your face.
Saaaay…maybe she’s Schroedinger’s cat!
AG
Good one Mr. Gilroy, but I also have to give you major points for “disambiguation”.