BALTIMORE, Maryland, June 20, 2016 - John Brennan, President Obama's National Security Adviser, went before a Congressional Committee and testified under oath last week that the threat posed by ISIS was still very real and very dynamic and, just as remarkable after a full year of what Obama and his Actual President - Assistant, Val Jarrett, call a "bombing" campaign, still actually growing in size and intensity. At approximately the very same time, Obama was giving a speech in which he said that the exact opposite thing was actually true. While all of this was transpiring, some 29 elevated State Department Officers really and actually signed a letter to Obama ridiculing his hair-brained foreign policy. (They didn't use the phrase "hair-brained," although they might as well have). To begin with, these Officers said, Obama must do what he can to get rid of Syrian President Assad. They said other things and all of them apparently are still employed. There is strong evidence that the 29 Officers and Brennan are actually paying attention to what goes on in the Middle East. Obama, on the other hand, says his plan of "kinder and gentler" bombing and 'droning' in the Middle East, is a very great success that is leaving ISIL (he calls ISIS "ISIL," and may have explained why, but I missed the explanation) in ruins. Where?
This campaign does kill an occasional terrorist, but most of the USA fighter jets return to base with some or all of their precision munitions still attached to the fuselage. This ruthless campaign is being precisely and minutely run from inside the White House. Officers in the field call in a target to the White House. When Val and company have a chance, they call back with either a thumbs up or down, and if it is up, the lads in the pilot's seat, take off looking for the target. Sounds effective to me.
Thanks to their witless planning, Obama and his functionaries have lots to celebrate, but ending the ISIS threat isn't among them, nor will it be in the foreseeable future with Obama and Jarrett running the campaign from their commander in chiefs seats.
Over in today's State Department - the one without Hillary's absurd meddling and death-embracing influences - one thing high on the collective mind of the 29 letter writers is Obama's absurd policy toward Syria. The letter writers want the United States to take military action against the Assad regime. The 29 Officers want Assad gone. But Vlad Putin, the Russian Strongman, doesn't. And Obama doesn't want to ruffle his feathers. You didn't know?
Obama is feckless if nothing else. How else do you explain him and Brennan coming to polar opposite conclusions about a central tenet of USA foreign policy? How else do you explain the letter writers and the letter they wrote and made public? ISIS commits and new atrocity almost daily, publicizes it, openly laughs at the carnage and terror it provides, and braces itself to fend off absolutely nothing from what was the most powerful nation on Earth.
The Attorney General was on network TV Sunday, telling the nation that transcripts of the Orlando Massacre will be released after they are scrubbed of the worst, most incendiary references to ISIS. She said that those kind hearted folk in the Obama administration - the very same people that brought you the Benghazi Massacre - don't want the Orlando victims and their families to have to relive the Florida Massacre. Loretta Lynch didn't say that Obama didn't want the American people to be reminded, for the umpteenth time, of the connection between Islam and Terror. She didn't have to. But Obama is so sensitive about his favorite religion that he is going to scrub those transcripts anyway.
Almost one year ago, Marc Thiessen, a former speech-writer for President George W. Bush, wrote in his regular column in the Washington Post about Obama's obvious knack for "playing down" Islamic Terror. Then, he was writing in the wake of the evil Islamic Terrorist Attack on the military recruiting station in Tennessee. Long before the FBI concluded that it was a lone wolf attack, Obama said it was the act of a lone gunman. He didn't know this when he said it - at least I hope he didn't - but I know he was praying that it was. Now, in the wake of the largest mass murder in USA history, Obama has clamped down on anyone in his administration connecting Orlando with Islamic Terror in favor of talking exclusively about how the massacre is a reason to take guns away from law-abiding Americans. Many many Americans want guns to protect themselves from Islamic Terror and what many see as the growing threat from an over-bearing government, one that doesn't hesitate in the least from attacking the Bill of Rights. This reactionary attack on the Second Amendment is just the tip of the Iceberg when Obama is involved.
As Mark Levin would say, "There, I said it!"
Anyway, and predictably, the Congress said no to Obama, as well it should have. Now Obama will throw a tantrum and pass an executive order that either wholly or partly abrogates the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights. Congress has a duty, he will say, to pass reactionary legislation. And if it won't, he will be 100% reactionary, because that is how dyed in the wool hardcore Anti-American Leftists are. Yes they are.
In sports - and I know that this is a very course segue if ever there was one, the Orioles put at least a momentary halt to Toronto's current charge toward first place. Over the weekend the Birds of Baltimore took two out of three from the Toronto Birds, including a win on Saturday in Yovani Gallardo's long-awaited return from the DL, and a win yesterday for Chris Tillman, who ran his record to 10-1. Matt Wieters homered and drove in four runs, Jonathan Schoop homered and drove in a total of three runs, and Ryan Flaherty drove in two runs as the Orioles won, 11-6. Tillman, an early Cy Young favorite, didn't have his best start - pitchers starting against Toronto rarely do - but it was more than enough with the Oriole's dependable bullpen.
The Orioles are now 40-28 and have a one game lead over Boston (39-29) and a three game over the Jays (39-33). The Yanks are in fourth place, at 34-35, 6 and one-half behind Baltimore. Tampa is in fifth place, 8.5 back, and with a record of 31-36. The Orioles were home over the weekend and begin a home series with the Padres tomorrow, but in between, meaning tonight, they must fly out to Texas for a make-up with the Rangers. Manny Machado dropped his appeal and began serving his four game suspension yesterday for charging the mound after being intentionally hit with a 98 mph fast ball thrown by the Royals' Yordano Ventura. Ventura was suspended nine games.
In that game in Texas, the Orioles came from ahead to lose, and it was ugly. They broke on top, 3-0, and then, in the next inning, loaded the bases with nobody out. With game, set, match, looming, they went about failing to score a single run, then watched Texas get four runs to win, 4-3. Boston lost, also, and Toronto was idle. Hence, the Orioles lead the Red Sox, still, by one game. Their lead over Toronto shrunk to 2 and one-half games.
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