The World Is Taking Crazy Pills (Pt. 7)

The Eastern European version.


Maybe it's because he's stupid:

But there's "smart" like Obama, and then there's "smart" like, well, the rest of us. Obama's gaffetastic appearances lately makes one wonder if we should redefine the idea of intellectual acuity and place the president in a separate category. ...


Poles and Polish-Americans expressed outrage today at President Obama's reference earlier to "a Polish death camp" - as opposed to a Nazi death camp in German-occupied Poland.

"The White House will apologize for this outrageous error," Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski tweeted.  Sikorski said that Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk "will make a statement in the morning. It's a pity that this important ceremony was upstaged by ignorance and incompetence."

The president had been trying to honor a famous Pole, awarding a Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jan Karski, a resistance fighter who sneaked behind enemy lines to bear witness to the atrocities being committed against Jews. President Obama referred to him being smuggled "into the Warsaw ghetto and a Polish death camp to see for himself."

It's not like Obama cares what happens to Poland. He wouldn't have gotten rid of the defense shield if he did.

From Russia, with shameful accommodation:

With the west expelling Syrian ambassadors, Russia and China now find themselves hard pressed to continue justifying their obstructionism. The world is probably not going to intervene in Syria militarily, but isolating Assad and anyone who stands with him is a definite possibility. A blockade is not out of the question, nor is establishing no-fly zones. But ground troops - even to create a "humanitarian corridor" - is not in the cards nor is any massive intervention to overthrow Assad.

How important is Syria to Russia now? What can excuse their defense of Syria?