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epicsurvivorAfter eight years in the Illinois state legislature, and two years in the US Senate, Democrat Presidential hopeful Barack Obama now fancies himself as a war strategist.
“We cannot win a war against the terrorists if we’re on the wrong battlefield,” Obama said. “America must urgently begin deploying from Iraq and take the fight more effectively to the enemy’s home by destroying al-Qaida’s leadership along the Afghan-Pakistan border, eliminating their command and control networks and disrupting their funding.”
Obama has no military background. He has limited political experience. Despite this lack of gravitas, Obama has come to the conclusion that AQ in Iraq is not the enemy.
It is interesting that he would take this tack only days following a concerted effort by the elite media to make the claim that AQI is not really al Qaeda. It is also interesting that this very strategy was predicted by Bill Roggio at the 4th Rail:
The attempts to minimize the role played by al Qaeda in Iraq in the larger Sunni insurgency took a significant step over the past week. Clark Hoyt, the public editor of the New York Times, claimed that the media had become complicit in the government’s attempts to paint the entire Sunni insurgency with an al Qaeda brush. Also this week, Malcolm Nance published an article at the Small Wars Journal claiming al Qaeda is being given too much credit for the violence in Iraq. In the article, titled “Al Qaeda in Iraq–Heroes, Boogeymen or Puppets?,” Nance claims al Qaeda is but a bit player in the Iraqi insurgency and is largely controlled by the Baathist remnants of Saddam Hussein’s regime. To Nance, al Qaeda is both a U.S. Boogeyman and Baathist Puppet.
If taken seriously, these theories are likely to have a significant impact on the political battle over the war in Iraq as it is played out back here in the States.
Yesterday’s column from TIME‘s Joe Klein said much the same thing. The significant impact that Mr. Roggio wrote about has as a primary purpose, providing political cover for the democrat party to do what they have wanted to do for years: quit. My co-editor, n2l, had some choice words on this subject the other day:
Quitting is something much darker and uglier, than trying and losing. It’s the worst of all possible outcomes, and speaks clearly of the poor character of a man or a nation, that is willing to accept this as an outcome. My father told us boys, early on, that “once a quitter, always a quitter.” He was right. We are faced with threshold moments, all of our lives, and they are defined as those moments when our lives are irreversibly changed, and we can never be the person we were before, if we cross the threshold. Some examples are learning to ride a bike or drive a car, the first day of school, the first kiss, first love, and first child. Quitting has it’s own perilous threshold, and once it’s crossed, that person will find it much easier to quit, whenever faced with difficulty.
Obama seems like a nice enough fellow with a very promising political future, but he is not ready to be Commander In Chief. And, as I look at the democrat frontrunners, there is no one who is ready. John Edwards? Give me a break. Mrs. Clinton? An inexperienced opportunist.
How in the world do these people expect to be the leader of the Free World, and confront the threat posed by Iran, and al Qaeda when they are afraid to even appear on FOX News?
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From what I have observed about Barry Hussein, which is admittedly little, I can’t think of any area where he appears to have any experience.
I saw his speech at the Dhimmicrat Convention, and listened to him for a while, but by the time he announced he was running for POTUS, it had become clear to me, that he only speaks in platitudes, about populist issues. He is so weak as an individual, and so completely sold out to being a politician, that I can’t imagine what kind of world we have to live in, that could ever be safe enough, to allow some one like him the keys to the executive washroom.
HRT©?
I would put her in basically the same category, only she is more inclined to be ruthless for her personal ambitions. She has clearly exhibited her disdain for the common man, with her vile and profane outbursts on people that she can get fired.
Honestly, I’m not concerned, at this point in time, with fifteen months to go before the election, that the Dhimmicrats have a viable candidate that can beat the GOP front runners.
Heh. I listen to him speak and write him off as a typical moonbat. Long on feelings, short on skills.
Screaming profanity at subordinates is stupid to the extreme. Payback is a you-know-what.
Yep, especially when the ones she is screaming at and berating, are hired to stop bullets.
Well, that too, but I was thinking that were I in charge of diggin’ up dirt, I’d be interviewing former staff.
Dirt?
Dang, they done hit bottom, and sifted through all the loose dirt on that cow. She don’t care, as the LameStream won’t allow any of it to stick.
Speaking of the LameStream and Dhimmicrats, did you hear about the brush up an ABC reporter had with Hairless Reid, then with Hugh Hewitt, the other day?
Very interesting.
Yeah, there was certainly enough dirt on both of them wafting in the breeze in Arkansas to fill in the grand canyon. There’s a whole ‘nother medium out there, now. Kerry got away with his sh** the first time around; the Swiftboat vets were able to get their version out this time around.
Yeah, the dust storm from all their dirt, made the 1930′s Dust Bowl look like a dirt clod.
No, I didn’t, but I agree that patting somebody on the ass for doing the job that he is supposed to be doing is a little extreme.
Whaaaa?
Hugh got on him pretty good, while congratulating him for his question.
You might need to read parts 1 and 2, to get the full impact.
I meant I agree with Hugh.
I read some of the comments on that reporters site. Those “peace” people are insane.
Oh…okay, then.
Hugh is one of my favorites. He speaks calmly, can disagree most pleasantly, back up his assertions, and doesn’t get into ugly tirades or shouting matches.
A very smart man, and radio host.
I looked at a few.
Then I had to take a shower.
Well, there’s nutcases all over. A pro-life person asked SwampMan what his views were on abortion; SwampMan said he figured it was up to the pregnant woman, and he didn’t have an opinion at all. The right to lifer told him that if he had a gun, he’d kill him for that.
Nut-jobs.
Maybe it’s time to reintroduce the Anti-Idiotarian Manifesto.
Just saw a story, where 70yr old Alfonse D’Amato is going to be a new poppa.
/that ol’dog
Back in a few.
Open Range is just getting to the good parts, and I need some ice cream.
I could kill you for that!
/heh.
I was just reading at JunkFood Science where an 8-year-old girl who is “too tall” and “too heavy” for her age has been seized by the state from her parents because they must be guilty of something. (England naggy nannies, but the parents have no recourse.)
Yeah, it was really good when it got down to killin’ them what needed it.
Dang, what a world.
Just had the show down and speechifying in the bar, so we’re getting to the good part. I’ve seen it several times, and unfortunately, this time it’s on Hallmark, so there are lots of commercials. Still, one of the best westerns made in the last ten years or longer.
the HH Link was very good. Long, but good.
Did you read the comments of the reality challenged, Nuke?
It was long, fo’sho’.
I had been following a little, for the past couple of days, and went through part 3 in a before and after nap, mode.
I got through a dozen or so comments, but it was just more of the same bilge that has been spewed for the past 4 or 5 years. It gets boring after a while.
But those incredibly stupid comments are the engine driving the Democrat party to the left. That is what I do not understand.
they will live to regret their cowardice
I’d like to point out that the idea of getting tough with Pakistan is not limited to Democratic foreign policy rivalry on who’s tougher but can be found in influential think tanks around DC as well, e.g. in the Carnegie Endowment’s Report on Pakistan.
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