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.
Friday, April 18, 2014
“Unleashing the socks of war”
Jonah Goldberg has an amusing take on a serious subject.
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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.
ReplyDeleteIt must have been the Peeps from the Discount Mart talking.
Deborah...No! Not the sock strategy! Code Pink and MoveOn will surely protest!
ReplyDeleteIt must be the Peeps from the Discount Mart talking.
Obama is Putin's sock puppet.
Deborah...Sorry for the double post. It didn't look like it posted.
ReplyDelete"If Capone comes at you with a knife, you give his enemy socks!
ReplyDeleteIt's the Chicago way!"
Give me liberty, or give me 3 pairs of socks!
ReplyDeleteMadness? THESE ARE SOCKS!
ReplyDeleteI think 'socks' is a mistranslation. They really meant Obama's pantyhose. Unleashing the pantyhose of war. Sounds much better, you see.
ReplyDeleteWere they black or white socks?
ReplyDeleteOh, no, not the socks! Obama is escalating from strongly worded letters!
ReplyDeleteLet's just hope this doesn't escalate to jock straps!
ReplyDeleteDeborah... rman, can't do that. It would be too Bush.
ReplyDeleteJFK - We will put a man on the Moon by the end of the decade.
ReplyDeleteBHO - We will give the Ukrainians some socks next week. Or the week after. Maybe. I'm kind of busy with the golf right now.
Sock it to them, Obambi!
ReplyDeleteThe U.S. is the arsenal, or rather, the sock drawer of freedom.
ReplyDelete*sigh* We need to change that presidential limo to the presidential short bus.
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footwraps
ReplyDelete“Ein eigener Fusslappen ist besser als ein fremder Stiefel!” / “One's own footwrap is better than someone else's boot!”
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