An exhausted looking Barack Obama
told US citizens Friday that after weeks of meetings
with senior military officials he was still “mostly
clueless” about who he should bomb in the Middle
East. The statement days after US forces began air
strikes against Islamic State forces in Iraq,
despite their opposition to Syrian leader Bashar
Al-Assad, who the US also consider an enemy and have
considered bombing.
“People of America, up till now, choosing which bad
guy from the Arab world to drop hundreds of
thousands of tons of explosives on was a simple,
clear cut decision,” he said in a live televised
address. “But making a choice about who to unleash
the full force of US military might has become
fraught with difficulties.”
The US president also revealed that “bombing the
shit” out of Libya in the final months of Colonel
Gaddafi’s rule hadn’t “exactly resulted in the
peaceful, democratic state we had been hoping for”,
while America’s involvement in Iraq could result in
a new US bombing campaign “every four to five
years”.
“Sure, we may be bombing ISIS now, but just as they
emerged from the ashes of Saddam’s dictatorship,
which we bombed the crap out of, whatever comes next
will inevitably have to be bombed to fuck in the
future,” he said, adding that concerns regarding the
effectiveness of US bombing in the Middle East were
“irresponsible”.
Ending the speech on a lighter note, Obama joked
that he was “just pleased to have bought shares in
Raytheon”.
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