Sending mixed messages is a sign of being a dope

In the post under Lex once again points out that in addition to being an empty suit The Empty Suit isn’t all that smart.  I’ve always suspected that TES was a dim bulb but when he showed up an event for school children and spoke off a teleprompter all doubt was removed.  The guy uses the teleprompter to avoid speaking like the dope that he is.

TES was off the prompter yesterday when he said our objective is to destroy ISIS.  He was still off the prompter a few minutes later when he said our objective is to reduce ISIS to a manageable problem.  Hmm, seems to me if it’s destroyed it’s no longer a problem. 

Carthage was not a “manageable problem” after its defeat.  It ceased to exist.  The city was razed, its fleet was burnt, its occupants sold into slavery, and salt was plowed into the ground.  There was no Carthaginian Liberation Front bitching about occupied Carthage for the Romans to deal with because there were no Carthaginians left.

I would think after 9-11 we’d be taking the same approach with ISIS as the Romans did with Carthage.  The Phil Robertson approach of convert them or kill them seems reasonable to me.  Since the conversion process cannot be trusted, we should just kill them.

How they are killed is unimportant.  There seems to be more disgust with how the two American journalist - Foley and Sotloff  - were killed than the fact that they are dead.  I suppose cutting off heads and posting the video on YouTube is a bit much, but what really pees me off is that ISIS killed them in the first place.  The way they were killed is a bit irrelevant to me right now.  Dead is dead. 

Like when there were headlines about botched executions.  I had visions of the prisoner on beach somewhere drinking a Pina Colada.  No, he was dead.  So was “botched” really the right word? 

But thank goodness ISIS scum aren’t relieving themselves on the dead bodies.  That would be a bad move on ISIS’s part.  That move might rile up wannabe Marine and wannbe Gen Amos into wanting to crush ISIS.   And unlike America’s punch line - Slow Joe Biden - I don’t want to follow these villains to the gates of hell.  I just want to send them there the sooner the better.   But since I’ve often thought of telling Slow Joe to go to hell, I’m glad he’s volunteered to go.  On second thought, these blowhards NEVER engage in the activities they advocate for the people or the nation.