Kerry on the Hill: “Assad used chemical weapons because Obama is weak.”

**Posted by Phineas

Wow.

PerΒ Marc ThiessenΒ of AEI, here’s what the Secretary of State said am few minutes ago while testifying before a Senate committee on the need to intervene in Syria:

One of the reasons Assad has been using these materials is because they have, up until now, made the calculation that the West writ large and the United States particularly are not going to do anything about it. Impunity is already working to kill a lot of people and to make things more dangerous. I guarantee you that is in their assessment.

As Thiessen points out, the leader of the West and the United States is the President of the United States. Ergo, Kerry is saying that Assad used chemical weapons because he assumedΒ Obama can be safely ignored.

It’s the ultimateΒ indictmentΒ of Obama’sΒ blundering foreign policyΒ and hisΒ incompetentΒ Mideast grand strategy. His weakness has encouraged brutal dictators to use horrific weapons and, to stop it, we have to repairΒ Obama’s self-image. What a great reason to start a war. At least the British hadΒ Jenkin’s ear.

Passing thought: What if this backhanded insult was Kerry’s way of getting revenge for beingΒ humiliated by ObamaΒ last week? Nah. He’s not that clever and is too anxious to be a team player.

(Crossposted at Public Secrets)

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