Imperial Contempt: Obama's Insult and Injury

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/brian-cloughley/56261/imperial-contempt-obamas-insult-and-injury

Imperial Contempt: Obama's Insult and Injury
by Brian Cloughley | June 6, 2014 - 9:26am

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But one trip from which he returned recently was not entirely a jest because it was amateur week for its organizers and unhappily demonstrative of America’s regally scornful attitude to nations which are considered unimportant. That unfunny foray was his majestically counterproductive pre-Memorial Day visit on May 25 to a supposedly allied state — Afghanistan.

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While we’re thinking of how he got there, have a look at a map and figure out what route was taken by Air Force One on its twelve hour flight. Afghanistan is surrounded by Iran, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and China. Over which country did it transit? Did Washington thank Moscow for not revealing the impending overflight?

It is intriguing that Obama One had to visit in darkness. Indeed it is amazing that the president of the United States of America could not land in daylight with appropriate public ceremony in a country that his armed forces have occupied for over a dozen years.

The chief executive of the world’s strongest military power that has missiles, marines, soldiers, spooks and special forces and warships and strike planes and death-dealing drones operating from over a thousand bases around the globe had to whiffle in clandestinely to a tin-pot little country so that his mighty cavalcade would not be threatened by a bunch of raggy-baggy insurgents armed with rifles and a few vintage rocket launchers having all the sophistication of firework-loaded catapults. How humiliating. And what a commentary on the farcical futility of twelve years of war.