You would think after the embarrassment suffered last weekend that Palin might want to lay low until a certain investigation comes to an end, or at least until she is sure that there is no video evidence of the Palins being Palins.
But then again she has bills to pay, and has to continue the charade of being a person of knowledge concerning politics and world affairs.
So late last night Palin decided to critique the President's Special Address about his plan to defeat ISIS. (You can read a transcript of that speech
here.)
I am not going to share the entire
Facebook post, because to be honest the smell of that much bullshit might cause some of you to pass right out.
Here is how she starts her diatribe:
War is hell. So go big or go home, Mr. President. Big means bold, confident, wise assurance from a trustworthy Commander-in-Chief that it shall all be worth it. Charge in, strike hard, get out. Win.
You know that sounds suspiciously like the tactics used by her family
last Saturday.
You know except the winning part, that is.
Palin's ghostwriter then goes on to blame the rise of ISIS on the President.
The rise of the animalistic terror group, ISIS, is the result of Obama’s lead-from-behind foreign policy. He had broadcast his war strategy for all the enemy to see in Iraq, so the enemy could wait us out and strike as soon as America turned tail and turned away from all we’d sacrificed there. Terrorists who we had under control got to regroup and grow after Obama’s premature pull out.
Still using that vaguely sexual language I see.
Of course Palin is completely misrepresenting the reason for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq, which was in response to a deal brokered by the Bush administration and honored by our current Commander in Chief.
The President
offered to leave troops behind, but was rebuffed by the Iraqis who were understandably tired of American occupation.
And of course the destabilization itself is the direct result of the Bush/Cheney attack on Saddam Hussein in the first place. They broke it, and then left it up to President Obama to fix it.
Now everybody is yelling at him for not doing it fast enough.
Then Palin decides that the real problem with the terrorists are simply that they are Muslim.
You must acknowledge reality: the organization calling itself the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is, in fact, “Islamic.” Not many of us pretend to be experts on the Muslim religion, but these terrorists obviously consider themselves Muslim and they believe what they’re horrifically doing to innocents is part of their “religion of peace.” So, you can use your soapbox to fiercely encourage the sane, civilized Muslims of the world to tell ISIS and all these sickening terrorists that they’re wrong. In the meantime, we must identify and understand the enemy by at least acknowledging their ideological motivation and identity. Our president is naive to ignore this.
So in Palin's view the objective is simple. Though she admits that "not many of us are experts on the Muslim religion" it is clear to her that they are all murderers and must be destroyed. Or I imagine converted to the more peaceful religion of Christianity.
(Because lord knows Christians have certainly not engaged in genocide at any time in the history of the world.)
Palin wraps up her ghostwritten rant with the following:
We should honor and understand our brave men and women of the U.S. armed forces today more than ever. Please do not support politicians who join Obama in diminishing our military. Our finest, trained to fight for what is right and determined to win, deserve our support. Thank you, military, may you be heard when you pray America’s leadership understands that if we’re in it, then we're in it to win it; no half measures. Troops, we are always with you.
- Sarah Palin
So essentially Palin would like to honor the service of our men and women in the military by putting more of them in harm's way in Iraq and Syria.
Something by the way that the President is desperately trying to avoid.
You know I think that when the military prays, they undoubtedly give thanks that Palin and her grandfather did not win the presidency back in 2008.
Because if old man McCain and his arctic floozy would have won, not only would troops still be in Iraq, but we would probably be fighting wars with several other countries as well.
President Obama is doing the best that he can with absolutely NO support from the Republicans, one of whom
said this in response a question about taking a vote to deal with ISIS:
“It’s an election year. A lot of Democrats don’t know how it would play in their party, and Republicans don’t want to change anything. We like the path we’re on now. We can denounce it if it goes bad, and praise it if it goes well and ask what took him so long.”
The only surprise about that statement is that he said it in front of reporters.
You know perhaps Palin should worry less about big problems that are clearly above her pay grade, and instead focus on the shit storm that many of us are fairly certain is coming her way.
