Unintentionally Funny Columnist: Obama Is Tough, Reagan Was Weak

There is alot of dumbass going around these days in the MSM as they frantically try to save Obama's hide in the wake of his entire mideast policy cratering into a smoldering heap.  My candidate for dumbest is by somebody named Steve Chapman, who attempts to exonerate the Lightworker for foreign policy weakness - not by saying that Dear Leader isn't weak, but by saying criticism over weakness is weak.  He doesn't address the substance of Obama's foreign policy, but rather compares it to a vignette of the Reagan era:

On Aug. 31, 1983, a South Korean airliner flying from New York to Seoul drifted off course and entered Soviet airspace. After tracking the civilian plane for more than two hours, Soviet fighter pilots were told to shoot it down. They did, killing 269 people, including 60 Americans. It was one of the most shocking atrocities of the Cold War. 

It occurred during the first term of perhaps the most staunchly anti-Communist president America has ever had, Ronald Reagan, an advocate of robust military power. And how did Reagan respond? He called it a "crime against humanity," and then, um, postponed some cultural exchanges with the Soviets.

Naturally, this is daft.   Yes, Reagan may have appeared to do nothing militarily in immediate response to the Soviet atrocity, but by 1983 Reagan had already declared that the Soviet Union would be relegated to "the ash heap of history", that Communism was "another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages even now are being written", and rendered elite opinion verklempt with his characterization of the USSR as "an evil empire".   In response to the KAL bombing Reagan simply continued the economic war of attrition that was a central tactic of his anti-USSR strategy.  Furthermore, he was busy building up arms agreements and placing missiles in Europe, arming/helping the Mujahadeen fight the Soviets in Afghanistan, and was undermining Soviet satellite states in Africa, Latin America and Asia.  In 1983, Reagan was also busy invading Grenada and launching the Strategic Defense Initiative.  In other words, Reagan was busy implementing a long term strategy to defeat the Soviet Union, he didn't need to respond with a "fly swat" when his aim was to bring the whole house of cards down.  Within a few years, Reagan would be bombing Soviet-aligned Libya.  Chapman either never learned or conveniently forgot this history.  But now that we've setup the false narrative, Chapman delivers the howler:

Barack Obama has never done anything that could compare to Reagan's limp response to this wanton slaughter of innocents. But conservatives with short memories regard Obama as the most feeble, weak-kneed president since ... well, since Jimmy Carter.

How many times have we heard of Reagan the "war-monger" in the elite liberal telling?  Yet, magically, Steve Chapman has transformed Reagan into a veritable puppy dog on the world stage for the sake of making Obama look tough.