Leading from behind?
Libya and Iraq are in crisis because of that strategy. I think of it more as the Cheerleader Strategy. Now, like a punchline comes this story: Russian Gangsters try to sell weapons grade radioactive material to undercover agents hoping that they would sell it to ISIS and "Arabs" because they are likely to use it on the United States. See video below and full article here.
The weapons and materials were "stolen" from Crimea, where a weak president allowed a strong president (Happy birthday Mr. Putin, you shirtless Maniac) to grab that key peninsula from Ukraine, in spite of treaty obligations to protect the Ukraine's territorial sovereignty.
President Obama says that Putin is acting out of weakness... but it is because of Obama's weakness in Crimea and the Levant that we almost saw the most savage terror organization in history acquire highly dangerous material, which they of course would love to use on us, at home or our interests abroad. I can't think of a more poetic indictment of the Obama Administration's wobbly and incoherent foreign policy. Can you?
Now, those of us who were already unimpressed with how the US efforts in the Levant are going, are finding out that the reports about the 'War On Terror' (we don't say that anymore) have been getting cooked to make it look like it's going better than it actually is. Will it take another Pearl Harbor, another 9/11 to make us take Putin's Russia, Iran, and the Islamic State seriously? Seems some of my fellow citizens think so but I hope they're wrong. This Moldova bust is a wake up call, and it could have been a very rude one. The Moldovians think this will be the first of many attempts by the Russian mob to sell WMD material to the Islamic State. Maybe next time we won't be so lucky, and leading safely behind our hapless allies won't seem quite as safe as it used to.
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By: Michael P. Pietromonaco
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