10.05.2009 5:26 pm
Our war strategy: Training others to kill
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
In a recent article by Tom Gallaher of Common Dreams, he wrote- “General Stanley McChrystal, the new commander of the Afghanistan invasion forces, has just assessed his need at 500,000 troops for five years - 350,000 of them to be Afghanis whom the US and other western powers would equip to keep “our” government - Karzai or his successor - in power. This would amount to a thirteen-year commitment to fight the return of a government that the US military overthrew in little more than a month in 2001, a commitment extending through a second Obama term, should he be elected to it.”
It is clear, that the newest strategy of our military , to win our wars, is to train the military of our former enemies how best to kill their own people. How profound of the greatest military might the world has ever known.
Bud Deraps
St. Louis
The Peter Principle is a special case of a ubiquitous observation: anything that works will be used in progressively more challenging applications until it fails.
By the historical standards of the office, Barack Obama is certainly at a level far above his level of incompetency.
Even the New York Times (!) is on it:
Losing out on the Olympics, of course, is not the sort of war-and-peace issue that defines a presidency, and the embarrassment will presumably fade in a news cycle or two. But it provides fodder for critics who are already using it as a metaphor for a president who, in their view, focuses on the wrong priorities and overestimates his capacity to persuade the world to follow his lead.
But that is what Peter Principle people do! At one’s level of incompetence, the manager or leader occupies his time with tasks below the level necessary for the office and hopes that staffs can pull success’s rabbit out of the hat. (This helps explains why Obama has so many czars.) Couple that with Obama’s inherent inability to measure success by any standard other than getting personal attention from as broad a swath as possible, and you see that the Oval office is occupied by a weak, ineffectual leader unable to perform at the level required.
As others have exhaustively pointed out, there is nothing at all in Obama’s resume that shows he ever made highly difficult decisions that depended, at the end, on his own personal reservoir of wisdom and experience. So he does not tackle the critical decision inbox because its contents are above his competence. (One is reminded of Obama telling Rick Warren that when an unborn child gets human rights is “above my pay grade.”) He tends instead to lesser matters that match his lower level of competence and gratifyingly feed the ego. And so he flies to Copenhagen to deliver a speech of no significance on a matter of no consequence. Why? Because he can do that - simply standing in front of a crowd reading eloquently from a teleprompter he can handle quite well.
The president’s failure in Copenhagen must be viewed in light of what else he might have been doing to address the growing unease with his presidency — his lack of apparent leadership where campaigning has become a substitute for making decisions, for instance. If the essence of leadership is the ability to decide the tough questions, the president is failing in that regard. His own party is wondering how strongly he supports the public option in health insurance reform. His commanding general in Afghanistan is wondering why he can’t get a straight answer on his request for thousands of more troops to stave off disaster.
And the American people are wondering when the president is going to address the growing unemployment figures and lack of economic activity that have everyone worried.
And further evidence of the president’s incompetence is offered by Charles Krauthammer:
On September 24, Obama ostentatiously presided over the Security Council. With 14 heads of state (or government) at the table, with an American president in the chair for the first time ever, with every news camera in the world trained on the meeting, it would garner unprecedented worldwide attention.
But Obama did not mention Iran’s just-confessed, secret nuclear-enrichment plant near Qom at the NSC meeting. Why? Charles cites the New York Times, which said that White House officials told them they “did not want to “dilute” his disarmament resolution “by diverting to Iran.”
Diversion? It’s the most serious security issue in the world. A diversion from what? From a worthless U.N. disarmament resolution?
Yes. And from Obama’s star turn as planetary visionary: “The administration told the French,” reports the Wall Street Journal, “that it didn’t want to ’spoil the image of success’ for Mr. Obama’s debut at the U.N.”
Dana Milbank of The Washington Post wonders:
Why isn’t the president more decisive and forceful? On many of the most pressing issues — the public option in health reform, troop levels in Afghanistan, sanctions against Iran — the administration has hewed to hemming and hawing.
The area in which Obama has been most forceful recently has been, of all things, his effort to win the Olympics for his home city of Chicago, which caused him to fly off Thursday evening on a quick lobbying trip to Copenhagen. The first lady announced that the Olympics campaign was a “take no prisoners” mission.
On Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House on Thursday, environmental activists were demanding to know why Obama wouldn’t, as they put it, “show the same foresight and commitment to our climate that he’s showing to Chicago with this emergency trip to Copenhagen for the 2016 Olympics.”
Why not? Because it’s too hard.
In Over Your Head,
David Sensing is a pretty good writer, huh?
correction: How best to keep their own people from being killed.
( not only does it sound more noble, it’s also accurate )
–More one-dimensional stupidity.
–Afghanistan, like most of the region, is fractured and factionalized.
The majority of Afghans, Iranians, Iraqis, and Pakistanis are in favor of
stopping the radical Islamists from taking over.
–The U.S. military and the American people are in favor of helping this cause.
–The Obama is not.
–Problem.
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Not exactly on topic, but very cool:
–I thought Robin Williams was a commie/lib. Maybe I was wrong, maybe he is finally growing up…
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HE MADE THIS SPEECH IN NEW YORK .
The Plan!
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Robin Williams, wearing a shirt that says ‘I love New York ‘ in Arabic.
You gotta love Robin Williams……Even if he’s nuts! Leave it to Robin Williams to come up with the perfect plan. What we need now is for our UN Ambassador to stand up and repeat this message.
Robin Williams’ plan…(Hard to argue with this logic!)
‘I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for peace. So, here’s one plan.’
1) ‘The US will apologize to the world for our ‘interference’ in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those ‘good ‘ole’ boys’, we will never ‘interfere’ again.
2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany , South Korea , the Middle East , and the Philippines . They don’t want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.
3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave We’ll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of whom or where they are. They’re illegal!!! France will welcome them.
4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don’t like it there, change it yourself and don’t hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don’t need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.
5) No foreign ’students’ over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don’t attend classes, they get a ‘D’ and it’s back home baby.
6) The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while
7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don’t like it, we go someplace else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)
9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don’t need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.
10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us ‘Ugly Americans’ any longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH..learn it..or LEAVE…Now, isn’t that a winner of a plan?
‘The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.’ She’s got a baseball bat and she’s yelling, ‘you want a piece of me?’ ‘
Yeah, a few thousand more troops, there’s light at the end of the tunnel, if this country falls the whole region falls, peace with honor. Where have I heard this all before?
Who said this:
“This is not a war of choice,” he said. “This is a war of necessity. Those who attacked America on 9/11 are plotting to do so again. If left unchecked, the Taliban insurgency will mean an even larger safe haven from which al-Qaeda would plot to kill more Americans.”
a) Bozo the Clown
b) Homer Simpson
c) Barrack Hussein Obama
d) Mr. Green Jeans
The failure to act is in itself a decision. And very likely a very bad one for the soldiers who pay the price for the decision with their lives. Priorities are wrong when the site of the Olympics is more important than spending time with his field commander in Afghanistan.
Also, we had to do ObamaCare by August, we had to force it through Congress even before anyone read the bill. Now, we need to take a cautious approach to the War in Afghanistan.
The One is a tool. Soon, someone on the Left will have to stand up and say a mistake was made on November 11, 2008. We elected a novice, an incompetent community organizer that has no experience making any type of decision. He can’t vote “Present” anymore. He’s the CIC but has no kahoonas. Men are dying because of his indecision. He wants health care passed no matter how many men die while Rome burns.
Why not draft all of the Illegals Aliens in this Country and send them to the fire front?.