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Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden

  • The tin cup

    Yeah, to beat the critics to the punch, this has nothing to do with the military, I just thought it was funny;

    For the record, every week is a “fundraising deadline” in his emails to prospective donors. I think it’s just some arbitrary deadline for the media or something. Because I’m sure there’s no shortage of ri-tards who send him money hoping for a shot at a dinner with him, Michelle and Joe Biden. For the record, no one is getting my money this season for an election. Unless Reagan comes out of retirement.

  • Little America: Listening to Biden and that dick Eickenberry

    The Washington Post reveals an excerpt from Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s book due out this week entitled “Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan” which illustrates that which I’ve been saying from the beginning about Obama’s lack of commitment to the surge in Afghanistan causing it’s failure. From the Associated Press report on the book;

    Obama purposely did not read a grim CIA assessment of Afghanistan that found little measurable benefit from the 30,000 “surge” forces Obama eventually approved, the book quotes a U.S. official as saying.

    A previously undisclosed Biden memo to Obama in November 2009 reflects his view that military commanders were asking Obama to take a leap by adding tens of thousands of forces whose role was poorly defined.

    Although Biden’s doubts have become well known, the new book details how Biden used a months-long White House review of the war to question the basic premise that the same “counterinsurgency” strategy that had apparently worked in Iraq could be applied to Afghanistan.

    “I do not see how anyone who took part in our discussions could emerge without profound questions about the viability of counterinsurgency,” Biden wrote to Obama.

    The reason Bush’s surge in Iraq worked was because he demonstrated that the US was committed to winning in Iraq. Despite the fact that Republicans and Bush lost the 2006 election, Bush announced the surge days after the election. While Democrats, IVAW, Vote Vets, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi worked to undermine the impact of the troops against the insurgency, those insurgents realized that they couldn’t stand against the US determination to kill them and they decided their best bet was to join us in destroying the foreign fighters in Iraq.

    The Obama Administration lacked that determination. Eager to seek a political solution that wouldn’t anger their base too much, the Obama Administration sought a compromise on commitment instead, which signaled to the Taliban that they could wait us out. Despite the fact that the CIA said that 30,000 troops wouldn’t have that much impact on the Taliban, Biden, the smartest man in the room, wanted the number capped at 20,000. Even that dick Eikenberry gave the Taliban hope;

    [Ambassador to Afghanistan, that dick Karl] Eikenberry, a former top Army general who had served in Afghanistan, said more forces would only delay the time when Afghans would take over responsibility for their own security.

    The Eikenberry memo was leaked shortly after he sent it, and confirmed by U.S. officials. Biden was presumed to agree with it, but he stayed mum at the time.

    Obama’s compromise – 30,000 additional forces and a deadline to begin bringing them home – was intended to blunt the momentum of a resurgent Taliban insurgency without committing Obama to an open-ended war.

    Their strategy from the beginning was withdrawal – if the war had appeared open-ended, it might have dissuaded the Taliban from continuing a fight which had no end, as it looked to the Iraq insurgency in 2006. But Obama, Biden and Eikenberry blew it. they were more scared of an open-ended war than the Taliban. The Obama Administration blinked.

    The first wave of the insurgency surge, 17,000 Marines, were sent to Helmand. from the Washington Post’s excerpt;

    “Can someone tell me why the Marines were sent to Helmand?” the incredulous McChrystal asked his officers.

    The answer — not fully known at the time to McChrystal and his officers — would reveal the dysfunction of the U.S. war effort: a reliance on understaffed NATO partners for crucial intelligence, a misjudgment of Helmand’s importance to Afghanistan’s security, and tribal politics within the Pentagon that led the Marines to insist on confining themselves to a far less important patch of desert.

    Kind of reminds you of Lyndon Johnson plotting targets in Hanoi, doesn’t it? So the Obama Administration ignored the CIA recommendations along with the tactical expertise of their commander on the ground to fight the wrong war in the wrong way – depending on Joe Biden’s ninja robot zombies. Joe Biden who has been on the wrong side of every foreign policy debate since he got to the Senate. The smartest guy in his own head.

    Yeah, we need four more years of this crowd.

  • Bill Whittle on why you should care about Fast & Furious scandal

    Someone sent us this video by Bill Whittle who explains why you (and the media) should care about the Fast & Furious scandal, “Watergate with 300 dead people lying on the ground”;

  • Why Does Obama Bow?

    This is a topic rife with psychological and political implications, most of which will not be welcomed in the liberal world of Obama supporters. This supposedly most confident man we elected to lead our country to greatness back in 2008 seems to have some inherent tendency to show deference to foreign leaders of countries of far lesser global importance and strength than our own.

    Why is this, the average American might ask?

    My immediate assessment is that this is simply a manifestation of the huge fraud perpetrated against the American people in 2008 when we elected an inexperienced, first-term senator, whose major life accomplishment had been as a former community organizer, to be the president of the United States. He didn’t deserve the position nor the honor. Nor did he deserve the phony Nobel Prize for Peace bestowed for nothing more than being Europe’s loudest, leading, liberal barking dog. He well knew he didn’t deserve the office or the honor and now, in moments of meeting more intelligent, more accomplished and more deserving politicians in the world, men and women of actual accomplishment in their own countries, he simply can’t restrain himself from displaying his own acknowledgement of the fact that he is undeserving of being where he is. Call it Affirmative Action Induced Inferiority Syndrome, or AAIIS.
    We did not become the most wealthy, the most powerful, the most influential nation in the world by accident, as it appears this affirmative action president appears to believe. That achievement came through hard work and sacrifice and a willingness to show the world through our always determined and, yes, even sometimes belligerent, posture that we, the people of America, believe that we have found the path to freedom and prosperity for humanity through our capitalistic economy and our republican form of government. A president who had come up the hard way, without the preferential treatment Obama received because he was half-black, might better understand the truth of that. He might have a better sense of why his country leads the world in prosperity for our citizens and realize the fact that most Americans would love to lead all the other citizens of the world to the same levels of freedom and prosperity.

    But this guy, supposedly the most powerful man in the world, bows down? I’m of two minds here, the first being that he’s suffering from AAIIS and is simply insecure and unsure of himself. That would seem to be borne out by his wimpy acquiescence to the horrid disrespect shown him by the Russians on repeated occasions. The other, more sinister, view I must consider is that he intentionally seeks to debase our nation in the theater of world politics for purposes of advancing his socialist agenda. Remember the basic tenet of socialism: it is a leveling of all things, including nations.

    What more graphic demonstration of the leveling of geopolitical power could there be than the leader of the world’s most powerful nation-state bowing to third world tyrants?

    Crossposted at American Thinker

  • Eugene Robinson; spectacular ignorance

    I really avoid Eugene Robinson at the Washington Post because he’s so ignorant and partisan, that you can expect him to write things that you’d normally hear on a street corner from a homeless bum explaining his poverty. Robinson “won” a Pulitzer in 2009 for cutting and pasting Obama campaign talking points into the Washington Post. But today, I started reading his column before I realized that it was his. It’s Robinson’s illogical defense of the Attorney General, because, according to Robinson, it was the guns that killed Brian Terry not criminals, and the Justice Department that armed them.

    What should Congress be investigating? The obvious first step is learning how officials in two administrations convinced themselves it was sensible to stand back and watch as powerful weapons passed into the hands of Mexican drug smugglers.

    Then Congress should look into the overall flow of firearms from the United States into Mexico. The Fast and Furious weapons were just a small part of a much larger problem. Mexican officials have complained for years that lax U.S. gun laws have the effect of worsening drug-related violence along the border. The damage done by cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine smuggled north across the border is mirrored by the damage done by guns smuggled south.

    If Issa really wants to save U.S. and Mexican lives, he should convene hearings on banning the sale of high-powered weapons. I think Holder would be happy to testify.

    I’m more than sure that Holder would love to testify about high powered weapons – that was the whole point of F&F. It was a way to demonstrate that guns in the US were being used in the war across the border. But the Obama Administration is more than a little upset that we discovered that it was the Obama Administration that was sending weapons into Mexico by allowing criminals to bypass the laws we had in place to prevent that activity. And it was so that the Obama Administration could subvert the Second Amendment and justify more regulations targeted at legal gun buyers.

    Maybe Congress should also look into silverware exports to Mexico, too, because the way Mexicans are using spoons are making them fat.

  • Big Red One earmarked for Africa

    Those of you at Fort Riley, KS, who thought your deployment days were over once Iraq and Afghanistan ended have a another “think” coming. According to the Stars & Stripes, you guys are scheduled to support the special forces operations currently going on in Africa;

    The soldiers in the brigades will be trained on the culture and languages of the region using a training model similar to those used for Iraq and Afghanistan, said Col. Andrew Dennis, the Army’s chief of security cooperation policy and concepts.

    The Fort Riley brigade is the first to be aligned under the new strategy.

    “This does NOT mean 2-1 BCT is going to deploy, en masse, to Africa,” Dennis said.

    Rather, smaller units from the brigade may be called at different times to do security force assistance and partnership-building missions, then return to the home base in the United States, with about 60 to 70 percent of the brigade deploying over the course of the regional alignment period, Dennis said.

    So, I guess there will be squad-sized ice cream trucks for you to spread good humor throughout the region. It will probably involve no-bid contracts with Baskin-Robbins and Little Caesar’s Pizza (-Pizza). You’ll be supported by contractors from Chuck E. Cheese and will be charged with changing the meaning of “the happiest place on Earth”.

    I noticed that “nation-building” has been altered to “partnership-building”. The goal hasn’t changed, but the name makes me feel warm and fuzzy. And putting a half-of-a-brigade on the ground insures that the hippies will be pleased about it – it’s not enough to have an impact on the strategy in the region, and still enough of a force to be a target for local insurgents.

    By the way, where are the ANSWER creeps protesting our planned “occupation” of Africa? They were protesting a war in Afghanistan before we had one pair of boots on the ground there.

  • Actually Going After a Cartel

    Washington attorney and AT regular contributor, Clarice Feldman, did a masterful job of chopping Eric Holder and his politicized DoJ into mincemeat this past weekend for its many transgressions, with the Fast & Furious outrage being foremost in her article. What follows is an elaboration not on the details of the scandal but on the political motivation behind it.

    When BATF agents first blew the whistle on what is now known as Operation Fast and Furious, the rationale offered by DoJ for such an evidently foolish operation was that it was designed to allow BATF to track and prosecute the leaders of the Mexican drug cartels. As more information surfaced from the Mexican government and the BATF’s Mexican bureau chief that none of them knew anything of this operation, many of us who were paying a bit closer attention to the case immediately smelled the first foul scent of corruption.

    The fatal flaw in DoJ’s explanation was this: if the Mexican authorities had not been brought into the operation, nor even the BATF’s own agents authorized to operate in Mexico, then the proffered DoJ justification made utterly no sense, for the simple reason that once those walked guns hit the south side of that border there was absolutely no process in place to track them to their supposed targets. Therefore, DoJ was patently misrepresenting its motive. Why?
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  • So now they want to talk about human rights issues in Afghanistan?

    The New York Times writes today that some human rights groups are concerned about the future of women and girls in Afghanistan after the US pulls out in 2014. Seems that they would have thought about that before now;

    Over the past two days, women’s rights advocates and others have expressed outrage over comments by the Afghan justice minister in which he claimed that women’s shelters encouraged “immorality and prostitution,” according to news reports.

    That’s funny because Malalai Joya, the former Afghan legislator, has been trolling her way across the country telling Americans that Afghanistan would be better off without the Americans there. For a peek at what Afghanistan will look like after the Taliban take the country back, let’s look at what they’re doing in Pakistan. They’re preventing children from getting polio shots, holding their futures hostage until the CIA ends their drone program according to the New York Times;

    [Hafiz Gul Bahadur] said the decision had been taken by the shura-e-mujahedeen, a council that unites the myriad jihadi factions in the area, including Taliban, Qaeda and Punjabi extremists.

    The announcement, made over the weekend, is a blow to polio vaccination efforts in Pakistan, one of just three countries where the disease is still endemic, accounting for 198 new cases last year — the highest rate in the world, followed by Afghanistan and Nigeria.

    The Global Post reports that Afghan children are being used as weapons already as the US is focused on withdrawal more than combating the Taliban’s unique strategies to undermine good order in Afghanistan;

    Hundreds of students have fallen ill in recent weeks after their drinking water was apparently spiked and poison was sprayed into their classrooms.

    The attacks have intensified the debate about the Taliban’s reemergence and possible return to power. When the fundamentalist movement ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, girl’s education was severely restricted and only around one million children in total were enrolled in schools at all.

    The media is focused on US troops accidentally burning Korans, urinating on corpses and mugging for the cameras, and now that it’s apparent that our whole reason for going into Afghanistan – removing the Taliban – has failed, mainly due to this administration’s signals that we won’t be committed to the destruction of the Taliban and their allies, the Taliban isn’t bothering to disguise their intentions to rule with an iron fist. Back to the 1990s.