Pinball is a completely reactionary endeavor. The player, in order to win at some level, must rapidly react to constantly changing events on each and every pinball played, until it no longer is in play. Unfortunately, our Pinball President doesn't have the necessary skill set to react in a timely fashion to the many changing real world circumstances, which seemingly appear everyday, whether they are on the domestic scene or across the globe in our foreign relations policy challenges. Unfortunately for America and the world, President Pinball has not been up to meet these wide ranging challenges.
What's
worse is that President Pinball's dithering reduces the options
available to him. In a rapidly changing environment, time is of the
essence. Dithering and delaying in hopes of a situation resolving
itself, is simply a recipe for disaster. It's like the hope in "Hope
and Change". Hope is not and never has been a strategy for success in
anything. America's enemies do not wait for a response from President
Pinball. They have a strategic action vision and plan before them with
various operational tactical plans to immediately initiate depending
upon the circumstances that present themselves.
As
has been alluded to in the past, President Pinball is playing checkers
while our enemies are playing chess. It's a mismatch that can never
catch up, let alone win the game of freedom vs. tyranny on the world
stage. President Pinball is playing a game that will only draw out the
hostilities we see daily in Syria and Iraq, rather than resolving them
while protecting millions of innocent civilians. Essentially, President
Pinball has told the world that Syria and Iraq are not the problem of
the U.S., but rather the problem of the local parties on the ground in
these affect areas.
This is so typical of
President Pinball. When he can't handle the heat in the kitchen, he
simply declares that the kitchen is not his problem. In a globally
connected world community, this is just another marker that illuminates
to the world that President Pinball is ineffective as the leader of the
free world and not to be trusted as an ally.
President
Pinball came into office promising to bring the world together. The
reality is that the world is now far more unstable and divided than when
the president took office. The decline in world stability and security
is not just some mere happenstance. President Pinball's feckless
leadership has created a vacuum in foreign relations and our enemies
have taken this opportunity to advance the dark forces under their
command, including the savage barbarians of Islam, as they occupy
significant portions of Syria and Iraq.
President
Pinball has told our enemies what he will not do, rather than going
about the business of attacking our enemies on all fronts with all means
possible. It was Teddy Roosevelt that said, "Speak softly, but carry a
big stick". President Pinball refuses to carry a big stick and sends
hollow threats to our enemies. As the U.S. and it allies conduct air
strikes against ISIS, it should be noted that ISIS has constantly been
evolving in its tactical response to these air strikes. Meanwhile
President Pinball has pinned his hopes on continuing to exercise a
limited military air option, essentially by remote control, without
benefit of having the tactical eyes in the field to provide precise
guidance for military air strikes.
As a
military strategist and tactician, President Pinball has all the skills
of a community activist to bring to bear, which is to say, none at all.
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Rob Janicki is a retired educator, strong supporter of the 2nd amendment and all around good guy,
as well as owner/operator of the website Wired Right and owes me 20 bucks.