{"id":56172,"date":"2014-11-01T09:23:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T13:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56172"},"modified":"2014-11-01T09:57:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T13:57:04","slug":"its-official-infinite-resolve-is-part-of-the-war-on-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56172","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Official:  Inherent Resolve is Part of the War on Terror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that implicit &#8220;the GWOT is over &#8211; we ended it&#8221; claim of the \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">clueless DC clown <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/krewe\"><em>krewe<\/em><\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 current Administration?\u00a0 You know, when they quit using the GWOT title for military operations against Islamic terrorist enemies worldwide?<\/p>\n<p>Well, maybe not.\u00a0 Yesterday the Department of Defense &#8211; in a typical exercise of the &#8220;bury something you don&#8217;t want the public to notice in a Friday afternoon news release&#8221; principle &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/article\/20141031\/NEWS05\/310310058\/OIR-troops-eligible-GWOT-E-medal\">declared personnel deployed in support of Operation Inherent Resolve eligible for the GWOTEM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In case anyone&#8217;s forgotten:\u00a0 Operation Inherent Resolve is the recently-assigned name to operations in Iraq, Syria, and surrounding areas against ISIS\/ISIL\/whatever the hell those Islamic terrorist bastards are calling themselves these days. We currently have 1,400 troops in Iraq today that just became eligible for the GWOTEM &#8211; plus a bunch more in surrounding areas.<\/p>\n<p>Last time I checked, the acronym GWOTEM stands for &#8220;<strong>Global War on Terror<\/strong> Expeditionary Medal&#8221;. So much for that &#8220;end&#8221; of the Global War on Terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>But remember: the current Administration &#8220;got us out of Iraq on schedule&#8221;. They just did that by <em>fornicating Fido*<\/em> so badly negotiating our 2011 exit that we were virtually guaranteed to return in a few years. And now &#8211; less than 3 years later &#8211; it looks like our return is official.<\/p>\n<p>As Santayana said: &#8220;Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.&#8221;\u00a0 That&#8217;s true no matter what \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">outdated, erroneous Marxist dogma<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Progressive political theory says to the contrary.<\/p>\n<p>I guess they&#8217;ll try to blame Bush for this, too.\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, wait &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55779\">the\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <del>Communists<\/del>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <del>Socialists<\/del>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <del>useful idiots<\/del> \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Progressive fools have already started to try to do exactly that<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Even after it&#8217;s been proven that this developed during the current Administration&#8217;s watch, and they were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55523\">warned over a year ago<\/a> this could happen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Clueless idiocy.&#8221;\u00a0 Look it up in the dictionary, and I&#8217;ll give you three guesses as to the photo and illustration.<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n* &#8211; Politically-correct version of &#8220;screwed the pooch&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that implicit &#8220;the GWOT is over &#8211; we ended it&#8221; claim of the \u00a0 \u00a0 &hellip; <a title=\"It&#8217;s Official:  Inherent Resolve is Part of the War on Terror\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56172\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s Official:  Inherent Resolve is Part of the War on Terror<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,238,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-government-incompetence","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}