Friday, April 18, 2014

“Unleashing the socks of war”

Jonah Goldberg has an amusing take on a serious subject.
On April 12, the Wall Street Journal reported that the White House was still weighing requests from the Ukrainian government for other supplies such as “medical kits, uniforms, boots and military socks.”

“You want to calibrate your chest-thumps,” a senior military official told the Journal, explaining this step-by-step approach. “He does something else in Ukraine, we release the socks.”

Now, imagine you are Vladimir Putin. You illegally sent Russian soldiers without military insignia into Ukraine (a major violation of the Geneva Conventions). You lied about doing so at the time (Putin has since boasted that he did exactly that). And your aide brings in the news that a “senior military official” of the United States has announced that if you take another step toward carving up Ukraine, the U.S. will be forced to give the Ukrainians the socks they’ve been asking for.

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

Deborah....Not the socks strategy! Putin will certainly give up any thoughts of "old Russia". Surely Code Pink and MoveOn will decry the use of such draconian measures.

It must have been the Peeps from the Discount Mart talking.

Anonymous said...

Deborah...No! Not the sock strategy! Code Pink and MoveOn will surely protest!

It must be the Peeps from the Discount Mart talking.

Obama is Putin's sock puppet.

Anonymous said...

Deborah...Sorry for the double post. It didn't look like it posted.

Not Sean Connery said...

"If Capone comes at you with a knife, you give his enemy socks!
It's the Chicago way!"

Patrick Hussein Obama said...

Give me liberty, or give me 3 pairs of socks!

Obamanidas said...

Madness? THESE ARE SOCKS!

Anonymous said...

I think 'socks' is a mistranslation. They really meant Obama's pantyhose. Unleashing the pantyhose of war. Sounds much better, you see.

Robert of Ottawa said...

Were they black or white socks?

RebeccaH said...

Oh, no, not the socks! Obama is escalating from strongly worded letters!

rinardman said...

Let's just hope this doesn't escalate to jock straps!

Anonymous said...

Deborah... rman, can't do that. It would be too Bush.

Gregoryno6 said...

JFK - We will put a man on the Moon by the end of the decade.
BHO - We will give the Ukrainians some socks next week. Or the week after. Maybe. I'm kind of busy with the golf right now.

Robert of Ottawa said...

Sock it to them, Obambi!

Paco said...

The U.S. is the arsenal, or rather, the sock drawer of freedom.

SwampWoman said...

*sigh* We need to change that presidential limo to the presidential short bus.

bruce said...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footwraps

bruce said...

“Ein eigener Fusslappen ist besser als ein fremder Stiefel!” / “One's own footwrap is better than someone else's boot!”