The White House whacked Bill Kristol — not by name — on Friday for calling on the U.S. to bomb the Islamic militant group ISIL in Syria whether or not it’s part of a larger strategy.
Spokesman Josh Earnest invoked the conservative pundit’s idea, unprompted, and said President Barack Obama doesn’t believe it’s “smart.”
“The Pentagon is still developing military options for the president, for the commander in chief, to use against ISIL in Syria. There are some who probably would make the case that it is okay to not have a formulated comprehensive strategy, but just as one pundit I know recently suggested that we could just go drop some bombs and see what happens. That is not what the president believes is a smart approach,” Earnest told reporters. “The president believes it is important for us to pursue a comprehensive strategy where military action is one component of that strategy.”
Kristol, the editor of the Weekly Standard, said earlier this week: “You know, why don’t we just [bomb]? We know where ISIS is. What’s the harm of bombing them at least for a few weeks and seeing what happens?”
The next smart idea Bill Kristol has will be his first.
I s’pose that’s a little more “Presidential” than calling him a “pasty-faced lard-assed entitled cowardly chickenhawk.”
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I think there will be more to come in the next few days.
"What’s the harm of just going into Iraq and removing its leader and all its governmental infrastructure?
Oh, yeah."
You think Billy Boy will ever understand that, though articulate, he’s a fucking idiot ?
Headline should say: Obama Doesn’t Think Bill Kristol is Smart.
Accomplishes a hardy message in its entirety.