Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Face Plant

Hey! Let's get the hopes of rebels in Syria raised by promising weapons that haven't been cleared by Congress yet!

After 4-1/2 years, the White House has no concept of foreign policy, does it?

Congressional committees are holding up a plan to send U.S. weapons to rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad because of fears that such deliveries will not be decisive and the arms might end up in the hands of Islamist militants, five U.S. national security sources said. ...

None of the military aid that the United States announced weeks ago has arrived in Syria, according to an official from an Arab country and Syrian opposition sources.

The Obama administration didn't clear this with the committees first before announcing that we'd help the rebels? Which gives Assad notice about smashing up the rebels first?

Good God, I lamented that the announcement wasn't timed to coincide with arms reaching the rebels. Now we find that the announcement didn't even coincide with getting Congress on board?

In what world does the White House pretend to lecture anybody about competence?