His (Unprecedented!) Foolishness

Having failed in Benghazi, and with an ongoing disaster still unfolding in New Jersey and Staten Island, His Foolishness is apparently determined to save Americans... in Israel.

 

A CNN "security blog" reports that

the U.S. is sending warships near Israel

in case evacuation needed.

 

Three U.S. Navy amphibious warships are returning to the eastern Mediterranean to remain on standby in the event they are needed to assist Americans leaving Israel in the coming days, according to two U.S. officials.

The officials stressed an evacuation remains an extremely remote possibility and the Obama administration is not currently planning for one. Americans who wish to leave the region now are able to do so using commercial airlines.

But the decision to send the ships even if the event is such a remote contingency underscores the growing concern about where the Israel-Gaza conflict could be headed.

"This is due diligence. It is better to be prepared should there be a need," one official said Monday. Both officials said the ships would be used only for assisting Americans and not for any combat role.

 

Maybe being in the vicinity of Viet Nam and Cambodia gave Obama this idea, because I don't remember any other American president ever doing anything like this during other wars on Israel.

 

 

Meanwhile,

Obama Claims Muslim Brotherhood Takeover of Egypt

Did Not Worsen Israel’s Situation

 

CNS News:

Asked in Bangkok whether the Arab spring “has made matters worse,” Obama demurred.

 

 

"... I don’t think anybody would suggest somehow that it’s unique to democratization in the region that there’s a conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians....”

 

 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

Sending the warships is -- no pun intended -- pure showboating. This administration glories in grandstanding, hot-dogging, chest-thumping ("We got Osama!") exhibitionism. Government-by-theatrics is always a sure sign that the government lacks the willpower to do what'll work rather than what'll dazzle. What'd work in this case would be Obama putting the screws to Morsi by stopping all aid to Egypt until Egypt gets its Gazan client under strict control. As it is, the administration is making Morsi look like a "statesman" and a "peacemaker" when he's really a major part of the problem. The only thing missing from this sorry farce is Frank Sinatra -- decked out in his sailor's uniform from "Anchors Aweigh" -- providing background music.

[Elan]

In a different world, the warships would have appeared off the coast of Gaza, with a message delivered through Egypt that the force would join the fight if the rocket attacks on a U.S. ally did stop by the end of the day.