Matt Drudge has an interesting timeline of statements and actions by the Obama Administration. At 4:15am eastern time, President Obama said the following to Moscow’s New Economic School:
The future does not belong to those who gather armies on a field of battle or bury missiles in the ground.
A few hours later, the Associated Press reported that multiple suspected American missiles had killed at least a dozen militants on the Afghan border:
ISLAMABAD (AP) – Suspected U.S. missiles and Pakistani fighter jets attacked followers of a notorious militant leader close to the Afghan border Tuesday, but the army complained the American strikes were hurting its campaign against the country’s public enemy No. 1.
Between 12 and 14 militants were killed when two missiles hit a training camp run by Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud in South Waziristan tribal region, intelligence officials said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to media. The missiles were believed fired by American drones.
President Obama says one thing and then proceeds to do quite the opposite. At one moment the future doesn’t belong to those gathering armies and utilizing missiles, while he’s utilizing the U.S. military to launch missiles that kill over a dozen militants at the next. And he doesn’t just contradict his words with his actions. He contradicts his Vice President.
In a Sunday interview on ABC’s This Week, Vice President Biden gave Israel the green light to carry out military operations against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Israel has a sovereign right to decide what is in its best interest in dealing with Iran’s nuclear ambitions whether the United States agrees or not, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview on Sunday…
In an interview on ABC’s “This Week” program, Biden said Israel can determine for itself how best to deal with the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran.
“We cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot do when they make a determination, if they make a determination, that they’re existentially threatened,” Biden said.
Then, on Tuesday, President Obama insisted that Israel didn’t have the green light to launch a pre-emptive attack on Iran to protect itself:
The US has “absolutely not” given Israel a green light for a possible attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, US President Barack Obama said Tuesday.
Obama was qualifying comments Vice President Joe Biden had made Sunday that left the impression the US would not stand in the way of an Israeli action.
“We have said directly to the Israelis that it is important to try and resolve this in an international setting in a way that does not create major conflict in the Middle East,” said Obama, currently in Russia, during a CNN interview.
Obama said it was “very important that I’m as clear as I can be, and our administration is as consistent as we can [be] on this issue.”
Perhaps the Obama Administration should get together and line up its policy stances. President Obama is saying Israel doesn’t have the green light to attack Iran one day and Vice President Biden is contradicting him another. Heck, President Obama can’t even match his own rhetoric with his actions.
Thank God the adults are in charge now, huh?


by Stephan Tawney on July 7, 2009