In the previous blog, I derided the “coalition” being claimed by President Obama and his people.
In that connection, please read the following transcript, which I pulled from Tom Blumer\’s blog at newsbusters.org, of Fox News\’ Sheppard Smith interviewing President Obama\’s Press Secretary; the amazingly unfortunately named Josh Earnest:
JOSHEARNEST: There\’s no doubt that boots on the ground are necessary totake the fight to ISIL
SHEPARDSMITH: I know, but are those the only boots that are available, andif so are they good boots? Will those boots to the job?
EARNEST:Well, shep, they will do the job more effectively in terms of solvingour longer-term problem. We need to make sure that it\’s Iraqisecurity forces who are taking responsibility for their own country
SMITH:Oh, no doubt. But last time we gave the Iraqi security forces, Josh,you\’re in this job yet, but last time we gave Iraqi security forcesweapons, they put them on the ground and gave them to ISIL. NowISIL\’s trying to kill people with them. The fear among some of thatcould happen again.
EARNEST:… we are going to have Muslim-led countries who are part of thiscoalition. This is not going to be the United States against ISIL.This will be the international community, including the Muslim world,against these extremists
SMITH:Like Saudi Arabia\’s gonna have some boots over there. Or Jordan.
EARNEST:I will let individual members of the coalition announce thecommitments that they\’re prepared to make.
SMITH:There will be no commitment from those two. I will bet every penny Iwill ever make it this network.
EARNEST:that\’s a substantial bet.
SMITH:It is a big bet, and it\’s a good bet, because it\’s not gonna happenand the whole world knows it. That\’s why I wonder if sometimes like,when the Bush administration was doing this, these questions wereasked from this desk and now that you are doing it, these are fairquestions that deserve answers.
We have a coalition of the Muslimworld? I don’t see it. No one from Saudi Arabia, no one fromJordan–it has its own problems, Turkey has its own problems. We arenot getting help from any of those nations, and to suggest that thesepeople, with great respect, from Syria, who are not organized, andthe Pentagon says it will take a year to train, and the Iraqi army,which has already folded and given away the weapons, are going tocome together and fight ISIL for us and with us seems like, as thepresident once put it, something of a fantasy.
Shep Smith – who, despite what you may have heard about Fox News being a right wing counterpart to MSNBC, is no conservative – said it exactly right. This coalition is a fantasy. It is another of the countless lies served up by an administration so used to lying and getting away with it, courtesy of a shamelessly obeisant Accomplice Media, that it doesn\’t even have to give us a good try.
With few exceptions (and the exceptions are all among countries and sects directly in ISIS\’s line of fire, who have to do something or be slaughtered), If we don\’t have boots on the ground, they don\’t have boots on the ground.
End of story.
