The Obama High Command today issued a press release to inform the uninformed that it had now vanquished one of the major obstacles in the campaign to do something about ISIS: they found a name for the operation. Inherent Resolve. Could they have submitted a request to the ivory towers of academia to come up with a name for the operation that could possibly be less understood by the American public? It is doubtful that our assembled politically correct camp leadership could have done better than the focused circle of sycophants surrounding our C in C.
Take a microphone and a camera out in the streets and interview everyday folks as to their interpretation of “Inherent Resolve.” If you can find one in a hundred who knows both words and is familiar with their usage, you will have done quite well. Float that same term through faculty lounges across the country, and you will likely get a lot of approving nods and grunts of acceptance. Why is that? Well, it has the inherent capability of meaning whatever its creators want it to mean. That was likely the goal of those inside the administration who came up with this indefinable tag for an apparently pointless attempt to stem militant jihadists in their fervent drive to create a Muslim caliphate in the very regions this same ineffectual administration so recently abandoned, walking away from the battlefield, arrogantly proclaiming victory while the enemy cleverly lay low and rebuilt their martial capabilities.
What is a more laughably foolish way to initiate a battle campaign than to burden the efforts of your engaged warriors with a label that is inherently based upon your previous lack of resolve, and therefore absolutely laughable to your enemies? And to the world?
I’m an old combat infantryman who has no problem with an enemy who hates me with a deadly determination to destroy me. But I swear to all of you out there, I cannot support a commander in chief and his politically correct administration who subject our nation in general and our military in particular to this sort of international ridicule.
I do believe I am inherently resolved to oppose these silly Democrat fools who profess to lead us.
Thomas Lifson adds: “Resolve” cannot by its nature be “inherent.” Resolve is an act of will. The phrase is self-contradictory.
Crossposted at American Thinker
Since we are rolling with the oxymorons, maybe it could be termed: Operation Peace Force?
“Presidential Strength”? “Democratic Strategy”? I mean, as long as we are doing oxymorons.
OPERATION POLITICAL PUNT.
“Competent President”. I thought I would add my own oxymoron.
This President has resolved to cut our military to the bone, resolved to burden it with the unique liberal brand of social engineering and politically correct thought, resolved to turn out battlefield victories into defeats and resolved to deploy said military in a haphazard and illogical fashion. The naming convention that was chosen for this clusterfuck perfectly fits in my humble opinion.
Why don’t they just call it what they want – Operation White Flag?
Oh, never mind. It would have to be Operation Rainbow Flag. That just doesn’t do it for me.
How about Operation Incoherent Resolve!
Darn it! You beat me to it.
Operation Pregnant Pause.
Operation Incoherent Response.
Remember “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for”? What the hell was that supposed to mean?
Operation Nobel Prize
Good grief it took 6 weeks for that?
Guys! Guys! Guys!
We do not need to worry about the Middle East any more. I just got a junk e-mail from some guy over there in Libya, wanting to know if I’m interested in discussing business with him.
Anyone want his personal address? Or should I send his offer to the White House? He says he’s got $20 million to spare. His name is alhaji hussain. Should I send that on or trash it? Maybe the Pentagon could use his $20 million to buy up some new equipment for our troops over there.
Whaddaya think?
Sounds legit to me!
“Incompetent Retard”. So now we’re naming operations after CinCs?
Whoda thunkit?
Hahaha! I like that, except it’s an insult to retarded people. They have an excuse, being actually retarded and all. Our current CinC probably has a perfectly functioning brain, well above average in fact, but chose to fill it with failed ideologies, arrogant foolishness and wishful thinking (trifecta!). Unfortunately America, and much of the rest of the world, are the ones paying the price.
Incontinent Relapse
Ineffective Return.
That’s a good observation regarding resolve not being inherent. And I agree that most of the public has no clue as to what the words mean. (“Sure I know what inherent means! Do you think I’m stupid? It’s what somebody gets when they’re left something in a will. Oh. It can also refer to things like hair color and height that people inherent from their parents. And resolve? That’s when you can’t solve a problem the first time, so you try to solve it again. So there!”)
Operation Ineffectual Goat Screw
Constipated Vigor
Muddled Initiative
Flaccid Spearhead
Dashing Moratorium
Resolute Dawdle
Operation: (Taxpayer-funded) No Clue.
Operation Mahalo Brudda.
I’m sure if anyone ever asked B. Hussein 0bama himself or anybody in his administration what they mean by the name of that mission they’d give you a “definite maybe”.
Operation Incontinence, they’re as full of sh!t now as they’ve been from day one!!
We need a Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Cool Operation Code Names.