{"id":16454,"date":"2010-01-02T08:46:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T13:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=16454"},"modified":"2010-01-02T08:46:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T13:46:55","slug":"the-depth-of-soltz-intellect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16454","title":{"rendered":"The depth of Soltz’ intellect"},"content":{"rendered":"

If ever there was someone who should be stripped of his veteran status, it’s Jon Soltz, the dork who is the public face of VoteVets, and mostly likely the guy who saddled the organization with it’s stupid name. The following is from his latest missive<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The failed bombing of a Detroit-bound airplane by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has raised a ton of questions – from what holes there are in airline security, to how he wasn’t picked up before on suspicion of terrorist activity. But, to me and the forces in or heading to Afghanistan, one of the most pressing questions is why we’re sending nearly every Marine and Soldier we have to Afghanistan, when Abdulmutallab and a Somali man arrested for plotting a similar attack last month apparently had no real connection to al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There you have – the depth of Soltz’ intellect. Because one guy almost bombed Detroit with his underwear, we should abandon the war in Afghanistan. Makes sense to me.<\/p>\n

…given the ability of al-Qaeda to spread and pop up in areas around the globe where we are not present, it simply doesn’t make sense anymore to engage in a long-term counter-insurgency strategy in Afghanistan, which focuses on beating back insurgents rather than al Qaeda, and securing the country at large.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, I was never a motor officer in a combat situation for over four months, so I don’t have the “big picture” skills necessary to see the war from that vantage point, but I don’t think that we should change our entire strategy against al Qaeda because of one attack. How much of a simpleton must one be to think we should? In fact, if Soltz’ presidential choice (who is not a veteran, by the way) had forced his administration to pay attention to the warning signs, the underwear bomber wouldn’t have gotten through the layers of security.<\/p>\n

Besides, in the grand strategy of Obama, troop deployment numbers don’t matter, because the war against terror is now fought by the Justice Department and the law enforcement agencies. Didn’t Soltz get the message?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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