tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12796551.post6555966889714714560..comments2024-03-26T05:18:53.709-04:00Comments on Pen and Sword: Obama’s High NoonJeff Huberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14146644937683409726noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12796551.post-29803141815026019592009-09-22T14:17:26.777-04:002009-09-22T14:17:26.777-04:00McClatchy story says.... he (McChrystal may resign...McClatchy story says.... he (McChrystal may resign if he doesn't get more "resources" --- read: troops.)<br /><br />We can only hope. Better that than he lie on the floor and kick and scream until he turns blue.<br /><br />After all, how dare the Commander-In-Chief override his ambitions to become so damned "big" he's too big to fail?<br /><br />Goldman Sachs --- he ain't.Elderladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02268520056042293783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12796551.post-6651549269373347002009-09-22T10:16:41.830-04:002009-09-22T10:16:41.830-04:00We've seen this episode before: "Leaving ...We've seen this episode before: "Leaving equals losing, so the troops will come home when we win, which we do by staying, and that is called <i> blowing your enemy's mind!</i>"<br /><br />Saw the news this week with McChrystal, and had Cdr. Huber's exact response: Defeating insurgencies is never possible.Jeff (no, the other one)https://www.blogger.com/profile/04030611459552848949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12796551.post-29749725340459151822009-09-22T09:53:46.359-04:002009-09-22T09:53:46.359-04:00I think Elderlady has hit the nail on the head the...I think Elderlady has hit the nail on the head there. Make-a-new-plan Stan's release was more than a little suspicious.<br /><br />If the "leak" was unintentional, then I'm the Sugar Plum Fairy.<br /><br />I don't think these guys have grasped the idea of propaganda, that it's supposed to be subtle, insidious, even subliminal.<br /><br />This stuff was accompanied by strobe lights and flashing arrows shouting "Look at me!".<br /><br />They did make one good propaganda move, though. They got their message out there first, before the agreed upon release date. They left the other side scrambling for a response.<br /><br />Hmmm...military and government on opposite sides. Doesn't sound good.Filostratohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04469903260877069258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12796551.post-83706704336835159572009-09-21T22:13:12.693-04:002009-09-21T22:13:12.693-04:00The president is showing more sense than I thought...The president is showing more sense than I thought. Just in case, I am sure Lieberman, Graham, Boehner and their press cheerleaders are cooking up the Dolchstosslegende for a new generation.khughes1963https://www.blogger.com/profile/16118365554189078448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12796551.post-56653371932291811332009-09-21T20:17:00.656-04:002009-09-21T20:17:00.656-04:00More hijinks from our unbeatable military:
An aut...More hijinks from our unbeatable military:<br /><br /><i>An autonomous fighter jet called a Reaper was shot down over Northern Afghanistan last weekend after it went AWOL and attempted to fly outside Afghan airspace.<br /><br />According to USAFCENT Public Affairs:<br /><br />The aircraft was flying a combat mission when positive control of the MQ-9 was lost. When the aircraft remained on a course that would depart Afghanistan's airspace, a US Air Force manned aircraft took proactive measures to down the Reaper in a remote area of northern Afghanistan.</i><br /><br />I always wonder how much these little "accidents" cost in dollars. They never seem to say, for some odd reason.jpwhitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17975430453557627368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12796551.post-21362456984204664762009-09-21T18:11:45.034-04:002009-09-21T18:11:45.034-04:00Afghanistan troop increases are to prevent the US ...Afghanistan troop increases are to prevent the US losing another no win situation (losing). Brought to you by war profiteers.<br /><br />Whatever losing means. Less money from poor kids for rich defense contracts.<br /><br />There is nothing in the pentagon troop commitment other than more cost with no strategy.<br /><br />That message is clear from the news coverage and will not be covered up by FOX blither or McCain/Boehner triatribes about why the corruption in the pentagon needs to be covered up by US kids dying in Afghanistan and children without health care.<br /><br />It is far overdue to demand a strategy to win, and forget this avoid defeat bluster.<br /><br />loggie20Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12796551.post-73356977356336296432009-09-21T16:05:25.659-04:002009-09-21T16:05:25.659-04:00Anybody really surprised that the "confidenti...Anybody really surprised that the "confidential McChrystal Report" was leaked to Bob Woodward, soon after the decision was announced by the White House, to discontinue the worthless "missle sheild" project in Europe?<br /><br />Me neither. <br /><br />How sweet it is to hear Lieberman, McCain, Graham, et al squeal.<br /><br />Maybe it's just taken a while for Obama to get around to remembering who elected him.... and why.<br /><br />We can only hope.Elderladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02268520056042293783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12796551.post-91528143043431667052009-09-21T14:01:19.079-04:002009-09-21T14:01:19.079-04:00And here we have vintage Obama, not that I object ...And here we have vintage Obama, not that I object in any way to what's been happening of late. But the fascists are wholly within their rights to express wonderment at Obama's Afghanistanian second thoughts. Its just that its been sympathetic "progressives" that have been on the receiving end of his have-it-both-ways deceptions until now. You know the sequence, out of "Eyerak", into Afghanistan, prosecute torturers but only those torturers that exceeded the limits of how a torturer should carry-out his torture. Never substance, always gesture. So today its no more Die Fahne Hoch on the Potomac? Can we hope?Lavrenti Berianoreply@blogger.com