Poor Osama Obama, it doesn’t matter what he says, he’ll still get a thorough beating from everybody:

The Illinois senator warned Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf that he must do more to shut down terrorist operations in his country and evict foreign fighters under an Obama presidency, or Pakistan will risk a U.S. troop invasion and losing hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. military aid.

Well, that’s how the Associated (with terrorists) Press interpreted his words, but we all know that literacy and reading comprehension aren’t either of them one of their fortes. Thankfully, they commit the grave error of actually quoting him in the next paragraph:

“Let me make this clear,” Obama said in a speech prepared for delivery at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. “There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans. They are plotting to strike again. It was a terrible mistake to fail to act when we had a chance to take out an al-Qaida leadership meeting in 2005. If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won’t act, we will.”

Do you see anything about “troop invasions” in there, because His Majesty can’t seem to find it anywhere. Unless the military strategy geniuses at the Associated (with dementia) Press believe that the only way to “act” is to launch a full-scale military invasion, boots and tracks on the ground and all.

What he’s actually saying makes perfect sense and, had it come from somebody even remotely believable on the issue, we’d even applaud it. But this is the same B. Hussein Obama who, a week or so ago, declared proudly on national TV that Yes, Virginia, he would immediately sit down with the worst tyrants, murderers and terrorist leaders in the world without preconditions the very moment he attained the White House.

So obviously, there’s some sort of logical disconnect here, unless his foreign policy is based on dealing humbly and without preconditions with our declared enemies while bombing the snot out of those who are, at the very least, our nominal allies (and, truth be told, there’s some doubt as to whether Musharraf even deserves even that much recognition). Which would, admittedly, be a novel approach, but not exactly one that we have much faith in. “Divide et impera” is His Majesty’s motto, it’s not “piss off as many people simultaneously as possible, just because we can.” Well, it is, but not when it comes to military strategy.

But hey, he got a huge bitch slap in the polls after last week’s “can’t we all just get along with Hugo, Mahmoud, Bandar, Kim Jong-Il and Zawahiri” declaration, so obviously he, being a politician, has to say something that at least sounds fierce, even though everybody knows that he’s less likely to follow through than pigs are to grow wings.

But pretend for a moment that this wasn’t B. Hussein Obama saying it. What’s so unreasonable about saying “if you assholes insist on offering safe harbor for ragheaded terrorist scum murdering our citizens, then you can wave goodbye to the freebies paid for by those American citizens AND we might just decide to send in a strike or two ourselves to take out the trash IF we have actionable intelligence?”

Sorry, all you Dances with Unicorns fans, but I don’t see anything unreasonable in that. Then again, I’m the kind of Emperor who would, given actionable and verifiable intelligence about an al-Qaeda cell operating freely, with local government knowledge and silent or open consent, in Quebec, would gleefully send in a flight of Hornets to melt their Camemberts past the point where they could possibly enjoy them.

It used to be that was the first responsibility of governments: Protect your citizens and, if you see a clear and present threat to them, eliminate it. By any means necessary.

Yeah, I’m old fashioned that way. Don’t expect any apologies for that.

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