Look out, world! The Obama administration means business!
Way… “@TheBrandonMorse: No way…RT @ChrisLoesch: So #OperationStrategicPatience is a real thing. Mind blown. http://t.co/T3E75qeLUA”
— Chris Loesch (@ChrisLoesch) February 6, 2015
Hold on a fucking second. That "Strategic Patience" thing wasn't a joke?
— RBe (@RBPundit) February 6, 2015
Nope.
From Foreign Policy:
Critics of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy have for years assailed his administration for responding too slowly to crises ranging from Syria to Russia. In a far-reaching blueprint released Friday that outlines the administration’s worldview, the White House insisted the United States is leading the global effort to confront challenges in a deliberate manner described as “strategic patience.”
The National Security Strategy, required by U.S. law, is intended to set the direction for the administration and communicate American intent to lawmakers, the public, and the world. It is Obama’s second such strategy, and likely last, before he leaves office in early 2017.
It aims to rebut criticism that he has consistently waited too long to respond to challenges like the rise of the Islamic State and Moscow’s military aggression in Ukraine, allowing the problems to worsen while his administration debated ways to act. And it represents a defiant defense of Obama’s leadership.
Because nothing says “defiant” like … “strategic patience”?
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We are so screwed.
Dithering obfuscation now has a clinical term: Strategic Patience
— Shoebox (@Shoeboxnre) February 6, 2015
.@whitehouse: We have a name for our incoherent foreign policy
We like to call it "strategic patience" or somethinghttp://t.co/3I8aZAEXuk
— Jean R. Ewing (@GenNerd) February 6, 2015
obama got some folks' heads cut off and some embassies overrun, that was just #StrategicPatience in full effect
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) February 6, 2015
Losing Northern Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Crimea – All part of the plan #StrategicPatience
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) February 6, 2015
https://twitter.com/SEOsbornIV/status/563773412322336768
RIP RT @Acosta ISIS American hostage Kayla Mueller and her mother Marsha (courtesy of the family) pic.twitter.com/jWKlU7h05F
— Max Q ⚡ (@Randy_Shannon) February 6, 2015
https://twitter.com/sushi_chocolate/status/563773007320330240
.@ChrisLoesch “Ma’am, your children are wrecking our store.”
“Operation strategic patience is underway. Soon they will get bored, I hope."
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) February 6, 2015
.@ChrisLoesch “If we don’t act, this building will burn to the ground!”
“That goes against the principles of #OperationStrategicPatience!"
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) February 6, 2015
https://twitter.com/Matthops82/status/563765872414580737
https://twitter.com/Plate0fShrimp/status/563769516715290624
@ChrisLoesch ’Strategic Patience' is the modern equivalent of ‘Nero fiddled while Rome burned’ pic.twitter.com/5eAf3IPFmz
— Atomic (@atomicgray) February 6, 2015
https://twitter.com/dadamsgt/status/563771213881696256
https://twitter.com/sarainitaly/status/563769360058437632
https://twitter.com/TheRealBepo/status/563768179525423105
https://twitter.com/Peetweefish/status/563763026679955458
https://twitter.com/Capt_Whitebread/status/563765058639888384
Next time I blow a deadline, I’m just going to tell my editors I was "embracing the doctrine of strategic patience."
— CJ Ciaramella (@cjciaramella) February 6, 2015
#StrategicPatience is the Hardest Part – Tom Petty @AceofSpadesHQ
— 100 Proof (@ChampionCapua) February 6, 2015
https://twitter.com/MetricButtload/status/563768503396614144
Gosh; I thought I was just lazily unprepared and half-cocked. Turns out, I have #StrategicPatience! What a relief! #tcot
— WryMouth (@Wrymouth) February 6, 2015
https://twitter.com/TomTorrington/status/563761939982319616
Strategic patience sounds like something a man would try to say to explain his commitment phobia.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) February 6, 2015
https://twitter.com/BradThor/status/563745716301230080
Seriously. We might as well.
https://twitter.com/BradThor/status/563759293753991171
"Strategic Patience?" More like "Strategic Punting."
— RBe (@RBPundit) February 6, 2015
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/563764652606496770
First we had strategic pause, now strategic patience, next will be strategic coma pic.twitter.com/3p7m8iDFwN
— James Jay Carafano (@JJCarafano) February 6, 2015
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with additional tweets.