Three Big Jokesters

President Putin of Russia has taken his well-deserved place with those lovable jokesters, President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Kerry of the United States, as the joke of the day, or the outright hypocrite of the year, again with the same company.

President Putin now has the gall to call the United States the “aggressor,” and to tell us that the proposed attack on Syria would be a violation of international law.  Now, first let me say that I agree with President Putin that the United States is the aggressor, and the coming attack on Syria does appear to be contrary to accepted laws of international warfare; however, Mr. Putin makes himself the idiot by presuming to counsel the United States against a possible Syrian intervention.  What a joke, Mr. Putin, both your statement and yourself.  After all, how many of the former Soviet states have your forces attacked or threatened in the years since the collapse of the former Soviet Union, Mr. Putin?  By the way, Russia (under Mr. Putin) currently supplies over 70 percent of Syria’s weapon supply.  But I am sure, Mr. Putin, those arms are meant merely “stabilize” the Syrian government, nothing more.  Sure they are.

President Obama’s joke (beside his very presidency) was that he would end the wars in the Middle East.  Well, at first it was not a joke, but a campaign promise.  Instead, Mr. Obama led the expansion of war in both Iraq and Afghanistan.  Now he tells us that the United States must attack Syria due to that national government’s use of chemical warfare, so that rogue governments around the world will know they cannot follow Syria’s example without the expectation of punitive actions from the rest of the world.  Really, Mr. Obama, is it that MUCH MORE CIVILIZED to rain missiles down from drone aircraft?  I believe that (known) numbers of those killed by drones is upwards of 1500.  But at least MISSILES were used rather than chemical weapons; right, Mr. President?  Thank goodness for your “hope and change,” Mr. Obama.

Secretary of State Kerry told us for years in the 1970’s that war was not the answer, and that we should end the Viet Nam War, that the United States was attacking a smaller nation that was not a threat in any way to this nation.  Now, just over a decade into the new century, Mr. Kerry tells us that we must attack Syria for using chemical weapons against its citizens.  But wait a minute!  Isn’t Syria a small country halfway around the world that poses no threat in any way to the United States?  Mr. Kerry’s justification for a US attack on Syria is that nation’s use of chemical weapons. His assurance to us that an attack on Syria would be “incredibly small” is just “incredibly stupid.” 

 So President Putin lowers himself from a “make no bones about it” strong man to become, instead, the third member of the three-ring circus that is debating the fate of Syria.  Yes, what a joke is the former KGB agent and current Russian President, with his lectures to the United States concerning “illegal acts of war.”  Congratulations, Mr. Putin, on your induction into the Joke of the Day Club.  You, Sir, are the latest joke.