Lines In The Sand

                After 70 days in office President Donald Trump has played golf once every 5.6 days compared to only once every 8.8 days in 8 years for former President Barack Obama. So there.

                There actually was a whole article in the Washington Post today (4/9/17) comparing the two president’s golf habits. Written by a fellow named Phillip Bump. (Bump, Phillip Bump.) It’s intent, not surprisingly, was to make President Trump look like a real slacker and I’m wondering who might be buying that after the two-month whirlwind of activity in the White House.

 This, three days after President Trump ordered 59 Tomahawk missiles to be fired at the Syrian airbase in Sharyat from which, this past week, Syrian President Bashar Assad launched a deadly and internationally illegal chemical attack on a village in his own country.

                How desperate are the left and their media clowns to distract us from the shift in actual leadership that has occurred in The White House? The word nitpicking comes to mind. Is nitpicking a real word?

                But hey, if the left wishes to compare presidents let’s rock.

                In 2013 B. Hussein O. drew a “line in the sand” and told Assad he’d best not cross it or else, regarding the internationally agreed upon ban of the use of certain horrific chemical weapons. By 2013 it was pretty clear how much backbone Barry had so Assad went ahead and launched a predictably deadly chemical attack on his own people.  In fairness, those women, children and elderly victims were related to healthy young males who were trying to overthrow Assad.

                “Or else” turned out to be a series of polls of the American public and some conversations with Congressional leaders (an oxymoron if I’ve ever heard one) about what a retaliation may or may not do to President Jell-O’s approval ratings. Barry’s ultimate hard line decision in support of humanitarianism everywhere was to move the line in the sand back a few yards and say, “Well, you’d better not do it again ‘cuz this time I really, really mean it.” Which led to the civil war Syria is currently engaged in and Syrian refugees seeking cover anyplace they can find it. Except in Syria, of course.

                Uh-huh.

                It’s not like Donald Trump didn’t ask the American people how they felt about taking action against despots like Assad. He asked us to believe in him when he campaigned.  We did and we elected him president no matter how much they don’t like it in La-La-Land or the dreaded 5 Boroughs.

                So this time when Assad did the unthinkable, President Trump almost immediately unleashed a strike of firepower aimed mostly at infrastructure and not so much at people that sent a message even Mark Cuban would have understood that said, “If you think this is badass, wait and see what happens if you do it again.”

                And then he went back into dinner with Chinese President Xi Jinping and said, “So, let’s talk about North Korea, shall we?”

                I know that Saturday there was another Syrian bombing run on that same village. But there were not any chemical weapons used.  Not this time. Three people died. Per bomb dropped I’m not sure Assad got his money’s worth but I’m sure it made him feel better.

                For those of you who don’t recognize it because of the numbing, apologetic, embarrassing eight years prior, this is what decisive leadership looks like.

                The Russians, by the way, have condemned President Trump’s actions as an act of aggression against one of their allies. That could get interesting.

                Additionally, Iran has condemned his actions as well and the Associated Press actually tried to make it sound like it should be an ominous surprise Iran was critical of the U.S.  I just finished laughing a few minutes ago.

                I haven’t watched CNN since Wednesday night when I was trapped in a hotel room but I just haven’t seen anything in the newspapers or online explaining how President Trump and his good buddy Vlad Putin are spinning this for the media as part of the evil plan they put together when Putin hacked Podesta’s email and made us all vote for Donald Trump so this day could come.

                Fortunately, when I talk to other people it turns out I’m not the only one who wonders who in the world the media, democrats and I-wish-I-was-a-democrat republicans are talking to when they assert that the Russians would have rather had Donald Trump in the White House rather than H.R. Clinton, who would have given then four more years of drawing stick art in the sand while cowering in the residential quarters of the White House.

                Can we please stop this nonsense over Russia’s use of psy-ops on an unsuspecting American public who, without their help, would never have figured out that H. Clinton was completely corrupt in the most criminal sense of the term, not to mention disrespectful of the nation, it’s people and the constitution that governs us?

                Maybe this country could use a little focus by its Congressional leaders (that silly term again) on health care, jobs creation and helping the President secure our borders and our safety. Maybe.

                Nearly lastly, I know the media is quite upset that President Trump won’t share his long-term strategy for ending the civil war in Syria and tidying things up in the Middle East in general other than to say we are first going to minimize ISIS and drive those savages back underground where they belong and then we will attend to the nation state issues that seem to flourish in the region. The media is also upset he won’t share the details of how he plans to deal with ISIS.

                I just have to ask, what makes that group of news prostitutes think they have any right to know or evaluate what our military strategy is in advance of its execution? They must be teaching a lot more heady stuff in journalism school now than when I was in college.

                I applaud President Trump for laughing at the Fake News Folks and telling them he is not going to share that information so they can broadcast it worldwide to help the enemy get a head start on defending themselves. I would ask what happened to common sense but in the media these days there is no more rhetorical question.

                By the way, this just in and I don’t know if it’s true or not but that works just fine for the Associated Press: Barack Obama won 3019 more games of HORSE on the White House basketball court than Donald Trump will ever win. So there.