Trump blows it on the Seattle Insurrection: "Never promise what you won't deliver."

One of the many problems all recent presidents have had... and do have now, as it turns out, is their ability to threaten without following through.

They all seem to do it, some more than  others.

Who can forget, for example, Obama's famous "Red Line In The Sand" nonsense, where he threatened Syrian President Assad (What ever happened to him?  Sure don't hear much about him now, do you?) if he used chemical weapons?

A year ago, President Obama declared that the use of chemical weapons by Syrian President Bashar Assad would cross a “red line for us” and might trigger a U.S. military response. Now, the president says it wasn’t his red line, but rather a line set by the international community and by Congress.

Of course Obama was lying when he said it.  He never had any intention of enforcing it. because by then, everyone knew he was a coward.

The end result was ISIS, Syria getting far worse, Russian and Chinese expansion in many areas around the world.... all while the US, effectively, did nothing.

Well, except for maybe Obama giving Iran several pallets of American cash to support their terrorism programs.



You would think that along the way, presidents would have learned to stop threatening, and to just start doing.

No one listens to US Administrations any more, because 9 out of 10 times, they just sit there, spinning on their collective thumbs.

In fact, I would venture to say that the biggest issue confronting American Foreign Policy isn't what we do.... but what we THREATEN to do and fail to do... and what we PROMISE to do and then fail to do.

Just ask George Bush about 5,000 dead Kurds we abandoned... our "promises" notwithstanding.


Before the Administration.... ANY Administration, can be given credibility on a policy front, it must finally earn a reputation for keeping their word.

A simple philosophy:

Do what you say you're going to do.  Don't do what you say you won't do.

Not only in FOREIGN policy, but in ANY policy.

Which brings us to Seattle's Leftist/Democrat Insurrection.

Now, "insurrection" is defined thusly:

Definition of insurrection

: an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government

That, of course, is precisely what has been going on for the past few days in the Seattle Soviet.

Rioters have taken over a section of the city of Seattle, a section where I was raised for 6 years or so when I was a kid.

They've, stunningly enough, walled it off.  They've armed themselves, they've taken property without permission, they've engaged and attempted to engage in extortion, assault and robbery, and, according to the Seattle Chief of Police, seen a tripling of reports of assault, robbery & sex crimes.

The president, for his part, has tweeted thusly.
Notice the date and time.

As I write this, it is now 13:55 on June 12.  He tweeted approximately 38 hours ago.

He has combat troops of all descriptions less than an hour away at Joint Base Lewis McChord, formerly Ft. Lewis and McChord AFB.

He has every kind of weaponry available.

He has the authority to order that this armed insurrection be put down by Federal Troops, whining from Governor Incompetence and Mayor Know-Nothing to the contrary notwithstanding.

So.... what has happened?

Absolutely Nothing.

It's still there.  They're still armed.  And his failure to act makes him look, in the eyes of many Americans, like an idiot.

During my time in the Army, both enlisted and commissioned, the number one rule of leadership was simple and easy to remember:

Never promise anything that you can't... or in this case, won't... deliver.

When you do... nothing destroys the credibility of a leader faster.

And that's what happened here.