President Coward
After nine months of fatal prevarication – including the announcement of a previous but presumably then (privately) rejected strategy – Barry has finally settled on a plan for Afghanistan.
For this week, at any rate.
And it is as genius as you’d expect. Barry’s big idea to is protect Afghan cities and cede the countryside to the fanatical Talibana. Which, no matter which way you look at it, albeit with one important exception, is a guaranteed recipe for failure.
A sizable chunk of the problem in Afghanistan at the moment is that the European countries there – the Brits and Dutch aside – do nothing except stay in their urban HQs. The national caveats that Germany, France, etc, have placed on the deployment of their troops prohibit them from doing anything at night, and allow their soldiers to fire their weapons only in self-defense.
Which means that they’re not soldiers, but lightly-armed social workers.
This is war.
We should reward whoever kills the most Taliban every month. Promise the victor a new Ford F-150, or such like.
Barry has chosen this path because it poses the least political risk. True, less troops will hopefully die or be injured – although amassing them in cities surely makes for an easier target -, which is indubitably good, but this self-restraint will make achieving any decent objective in Afghanistan almost impossible (and our chances of succeeding were already remote enough). Barry is preparing us for a retreat, and he’s rehearsing the Blame Bush Doctrine already.
This supposed “strategy” didn’t work against the Vietcong, and it’s not going to work here, either.
October 29th, 2009 at 10:02
This man is evil.
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October 29th, 2009 at 10:49
Well… I disagree with your elucidation on the current military situation (personally, I think the biggest problem is a lack of united control between the UN forces, US military, and US marines, meaning target distribution is not done well, and communications are terrible between the three groups).
However, I cannot argue with your characterization of Obama’s actions. What a schmuck. *sigh*
October 29th, 2009 at 11:09
From what I’ve been reading, this is turning into another Vietnam. I don’t say that lightly either. My brother was in Vietnam as a medic and he still refuses to talk about his experiences. They have so many restrictions on these soldiers, that if it is true that morale is down, it’s no wonder. Per a UN resolution, our soldiers are not allowed to fire upon the enemy if there are children present in the vicinity. Even if they are being attacked, they are not allowed to return fire. Not long ago 4 soldiers were killed because of this stupid as hell rule. I don’t mean to sound hard-hearted, but war is hell. We are in a fight not only for our lives, but for our very culture. What caring parent would allow a child in war zone to begin with? And we all know that these children end up being terrorists. I’m just sayin’….
I’ll try to dig up the article that I got this info from, and I’ll post the link.
October 29th, 2009 at 11:15
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/opinion/29sebestyen.html
We are as dumb as the USSR was. And according to Bin Laden, the real reason for 9/11 was to bankrupt the West, which he is going to do if we don’t wise up.
October 29th, 2009 at 11:51
Here’s AN article about it. It’s not the one I originally read. The one I read went into the ROE (Rules of Engagement) which is why they are being restricted in the first place.
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Hope this works. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn’t.
October 29th, 2009 at 15:06
I’m going to take that Dutch set-aside as a shout-out to me, just to let you know. The Ma Dukes is Dutch, if you recall.
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October 30th, 2009 at 20:01
Is that the picture of the Lion King?
Have you all ever read CS Lewis’s “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.”?
Didn’t Lewis’s Lion King, also have a way with words?
October 31st, 2009 at 03:22
I think you short-changed the Danes here … They’ve got to be kicking at least as much ass as the Dutch.
December 2nd, 2009 at 13:50
The lion had a heart, Barry does not.
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