Mr. President. Do you think “Little Dicky Durbin” might be more appropriate?
Mr. President. You are usually quite sage in naming your opponents. With "Dicky Durbin", I suggest you are close, but not quite there. I respectfully submit "Little Dicky Durbin" would be more appropriate.
Jeff Goldberg’s article “The Obama Doctrine“, in the April 2016 edition of The Atlantic magazine states that Barack Obama called the state of Libya a “Shit-show”. No big deal, right? And it was no big deal
because you didn’t have a ‘shit weasel’ like Senator Dick Durbin trying to score political points and sabotage the negotiations for DACA reform. Durbin proves, again, why you can never trust a Democrat to negotiate in good faith or to adhere to the terms agreed. Nothing should ever be done without the equivalent of a “Contractors Holdback”. So here’s what Goldberg wrote, quoting Obama,
“So we actually executed this plan as well as I could have expected: We got a UN mandate, we built a coalition, it cost us $1 billion—which, when it comes to military operations, is very cheap. We averted large-scale civilian casualties, we prevented what almost surely would have been a prolonged and bloody civil conflict. And despite all that, Libya is a mess.”
Mess is the president’s diplomatic term; privately, he calls Libya a “shit show,” in part because it’s subsequently become an isis haven—one that he has already targeted with air strikes. It became a shit show, Obama believes, for reasons that had less to do with American incompetence than with the passivity of America’s allies and with the obdurate power of tribalism.
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