Chris Christie: Obama Showed the World Why He’s Weak

In a humorous and pithy takedown of President Obama for his performance on CBS’s 60 Minutes Sunday, Fox News Digital Politics Editor Chris Stirewalt appeared on Monday’s edition of The Kelly File to express his astonishment with how Obama’s reached “the point of utter incredulity, even with people who were once very admiring” like 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft. So Putin came in at the President’s invitation. You had just unveiled a plan to provide air support for troops in Iraq, and also a few air strikes in Syria, and the training and equipping of a moderate Syrian force.

Meanwhile, the half-billion dollars Congress appropriated to arm and train so-called “friendly” Syrians to battle ISIL has produced a mere handful of combatants left in the field – “four or five”, according to Gen. Lloyd Austin III, commander of U.S. Central Command.

Blame him all you like, but you can not find fault in U.S. President Barack Obama’s measured policy when it comes to dealing with Vladimir Putin and his idea of how Russian Federation should go about its business in the worldwide arena.

First, Governor Christie threatened to shoot Russian aircraft out of the sky if President Vladimir Putin disobeyed his orders.

That imperial impulse drove Putin to annex Crimea from Ukraine, and one of the Baltic states is “quite possibly next”, said Woolsey, who attributes Russia’s audacity partly to a USA administration that lacks the appetite to keep it in check. “It will impact every country in the region who will now begin to have relationships with Russian Federation as opposed to the long-standing relationships they had with the USA”, Sputnik quoted Jack Keane as saying on Saturday. Its lies and fabrications, its demonization of leaders, like President Putin, are one part of a global military offensive to establish dominance and to destroy adversaries. “He’s challenging your leadership”, Kroft said. “My definition of leadership would be leading on climate change, an worldwide accord that potentially we’ll get”. Clearly there are insurmountable contradictions between short-term military objectives (fighting ISIS) and strategic imperial political imperatives (consolidating US-Israeli hegemony over the Middle East and Iran).

“We planned our armed forces modernization program several years ago, when the worldwide situation was not in the tense state it is in today”. Kroft then interrupted with, “All right”.

Many Republicans harshly criticized Christie, a Mitt Romney supporter, for putting partisanship aside in autumn 2012 to work alongside Obama to help New Jersey residents in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. “I mean, when Kroft starts pushing the president around because he’s basically been his, you know, buddy for the last seven years…”

It is clear to us, that the fantasy of a diplomatic settlement being desperately sought by Obama won’t happen anytime soon and, we would wager, it won’t happen until it becomes beneficial to Russian Federation. “That includes you – so don’t test me, ‘” Christie said. “My definition of leadership is mobilizing the entire world to make sure that Iran doesn’t get a nuclear weapon”, Obama added. But he frustrates the administration’s Russian Federation hawks, who prefer to isolate Putin, with his reliable belief in the benefits of continued dialogue with Moscow. I think in part with both, it’s also a delay tactic, even for a fraction of a second.

No matter how many high-profile comedic appearances Hillary Clinton makes or how many supporters she dances with, she can’t seem to escape criticism for coming off as unfeeling, bordering on robotic. This is by his design that the United States should not be playing a more advanced role there.