Jan 22
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Wall Street banker Hank Paulson, Bush’s Treasury Secretary, pulled in Timmie Geithner from the New York Fed bank to set up the beginning of the bailout scam. Obama made Geithner his Treasury Secretary to keep it going. The big banks were full of wealth that turned to air with the popping of the housing bubble; those [...]
Jan 7
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The sky is falling! The earth is warming! The End is here! The defense budget might be cut!!! Yeah right, we can only wish. Any currently touted cuts will likely disappear in the upcoming budget negotiations, or near enough not to matter. Too much in campaign contributions depends on keeping President Eisenhower’s “military-industrial complex” happy, [...]
Jan 6
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Noting how much money disappeared in the direction of government led to wondering what we’re getting for it. Unlike our governors, we have to earn our money; we can’t just point a jail at someone and demand it. A big item is military defense. Defense from who? A few Seals and drones have returned al-Qaeda to just [...]
Dec 6
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The aftermath of the so-called tragedy at Salala, Pakistan last month really brings forth their true colors, the true allegiances of our “ally” Pakistan. Although, I think calling them an ally might be stretching it a bit. In case you may have forgotten just what happened on that day, NATO fighter jets and helicopters fired [...]
Nov 5
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What is war? War is killing people and destroying property until you get your way. The people include babies, children, teens, mothers, fathers and the elderly; property includes anything of any use to man. War is industrialized waste of lives and goods to satisfy political desires. Argue that if you can… The United States has [...]
Oct 11
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“Do what I say, not what I do” takes on reality when the same government lawyers who accused the last President of exceeding his war powers eagerly justify his successor’s use of assassination against an American. White House Lawyers Who Drafted Secret Awlaki Kill Memo Were Critics of Bush’s War Powers will tell you more. So [...]
Oct 10
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AND THE RAT THOUGHT LIBERALS WERE THE BIGGEST HYPOCRITES ON THE PLANET The envelope, please. (drum roll) Ladies and gentlemen…the winner…of this century’s Huge Brass Balls Award…by unanimous decision…is…al-Qaeda! Yes, folks, al-Qaeda wins the el-large-o cojones award hands down for criticizing the killing of U.S.-born al-Qaeda terrorist, Anwar al-Awlaki. And I thought liberals were the most audacious hypocrites on [...]
Oct 7
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It’s a nice point: With Obama killing folks when and where he wishes, how can he deny that he is fair game himself? Islamic Website Asks: Is the Assassination of Obama Legal? It’s also interesting that there’s been no significant public interest or debate on rulers asserting the power of life or death at their whim. [...]
Sep 16
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Sarkozy and Cameron photo-op’d their U.S.- enabled recolonization attempt in Libya as the media flacks added that to the piled-up Egyptian, Syrian and Tunisian frosting on the Iraqi and Afghan cakes. The Palestinians meanwhile want their subsidized anti-Israel political fronts recognized as a country, while President Obama smiles beneficently over all. The cost to the U.S. so far is recently [...]
Sep 14
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1. Politicians can save the economy… False. Politicians can and repeatedly do trash it but only private enterprise can provide the wealth generation needed to to save a sick economy and to keep one healthy. The last President who said that–and proved it in the recession of 1920-1921–was Republican Warren Harding. He held off his [...]
Sep 2
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Our premier spy agency has expanded into industrialized assassination, killing over 2,000 “targets” and civilians over the last 10 years, as the Washington Post dryly puts it. CIA Shifts Focus To Killing Targets will tell you more. Is creation of an automated killing machine on such a scale wise? Is it moral? It’s too secret for those discussions to occur. [...]
Sep 1
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Feedng Civil War Fever in Afghanistan provides a small slice of the reality our leaders and our media never seem to think newsworthy. It’s a small story but it provides the big picture, a picture which leaves one wondering what there ever was to gain there for the U.S. The place seems good for grinding up [...]
Aug 26
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WANNA MARRY A SIX-YEAR-OLD? NO PROBLEM. WANNA PASS GAS? NO FREAKIN’ WAY. According to The Military Times Marine Corps blog, Battle Rattle, the Marine Corps has banned audible farting in Afghanistan because it is culturally offensive to civilians working with the military, as well as members of the Afghan National Army. The Military in Afghanistan had previously been ordered not to curse [...]
Aug 16
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Much could have been done with the money spent to now on those wars; What the Money Spent in Iraq and Afghanistan Could Have Bought at Home in America explains. Ask yourself: Did we get our money’s worth by spending it where we did? Are the present accomplishments there worth the lives lost? The two programs [...]
Reaction to Obama’s Afghanistan Speech.
I want to pull out of Afghanistan. But not the way Obama does it. The guy makes a speech about Afghanistan when he should be making a speech about Libya. To Congress. Because he is making war when the Congress has not agreed with him. Everything about what Obama says makes causes me pause with suspicion. Especially if he agrees with me. So, he wants to pull out of Afghanistan. Why? See, I think we have lost our way in Afghanistan. We no longer know what our mission is. When Bush attacked, the mission was #1) Punish those who perpetrated 9/11 and 2) to destroy, forever Al Qaeda. Especially their training camps. # 1 is done. #2 is a work in progress and will be so for some time to come. Sooo…. why are we there? It needs to be re-defined. I was waiting for Obama to outline our new focus. He did not do so. He simply told Al Qaeda when they could re-commence building political alliances and training camps.
Now, I am no dummy. I know we need to prevent further Al Qaeda training camps from growing in Afghanistan and from anywhere around the world. But do we need boots ..continue reading..
May 12
(Jamil Hilal, al-Shabaka) “The main message from the Arab uprisings to the Palestinian people is that the quest for national liberation, democracy, and social justice is intertwined.” When most other Arabs are complaining in the streets even under gunfire, the good folk in Gaza and the West Bank seem by that standard, to be content. With what [...]
Apr 27
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More news from Afghanistan, some good and some bad. – http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghan-prison-web-20110427,0,7314837.story – In a daring prison breakout, 488 inmates of the Sarposa Prison in Kandahar escaped the jail through a tunnel dug from the outside by insurgents. The 1000 foot tunnel which must have taken months to dig terminated in one of the cells, prisoners [...]
Another round of news, dear friends, as I enjoy the movie “Ivan’s Childhood” while I type this out…
Militancy and the U.S. Drawdown in Afghanistan by Scott Stewart, STRATFOR. Now that American troops are leaving Iraq (and sure to come back soon enough as chaos will ensure once the Baathists and Al-Qaeda remnants feel ‘brave’ enough to go on a nationwide killing spree), attention will be focused on the alleged ‘Good War’ in Afghanistan. The militants in Afghanistan will pose a far different challenge to the organized, but mainly secular, terrorists Iraq has to contend with. They are a wily bunch, and will fight tooth-and-nail until dead or victorious.
Afghanistan and the War Legend by Robert W. Merry, STRATFOR. Straight talk for President Obama regarding how to handle Afghanistan.
Václav Havel by Johan Goldberg, National Review. The legendary Czech playwright, president and Frank Zappa fan speaks out against government incompetence regarding economic matters.
Mass Extinction Threat: Earth on Verge of Huge Reset Button? by Jeremy Hsu, LiveScience.com. My retort to this silliness? Something along the lines of Chris Tucker’s comment to Jackie Chan: “We gonna diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie!”
Hamas leader rejects talks with Israel by Diaa Hadid and Karin Laub, Associated Press. A swat to the back of the head for anyone foolish enough to think that Palestinians were ever serious about peace. Shame on you. There were never serious, and would be going against their own raison d’etre if they altered their charter to make peace with Jews.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Some worthy reading:
America plays the fool in Pakistan’s double game by Ralph Peters. Colonel Peters is one of the large chorus of defense insiders who has had no illusions regarding Pakistan’s secret service treachery against this country. They are as much an enemy as the Taliban are, and the recently exposed paperwork confirms what a blind man could see.
From WikiLeaks to the Killing Fields by the Editorial Board at the Wall Street Journal. An interesting dichotomy is made between our situation in Afghanistan and Cambodia.
The AfPak Papers by the Editorial Board at the Wall Street Journal. All that trouble to make both President Bush’s and President Obama’s case for staying the course in Afghanistan. D’oh!
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
Here’s the contrarian view of the McChrystal fiasco. Though he took a lot of flak for his position, it looks like Michael Yon’s criticism of General Stanley McChrystal may have been warranted after all. He sees the former head of Afghan forces as incompetent. We’ll see what he feels of the new one soon enough.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
I’m not going to spend much time or effort on this one.
Obama has to fire McChrystal. McChrystal left him no other option. McChrystal did it on purpose. Obama was totally ignoring him, totally ignoring the war, and putting his men in harm’s way for no real purpose. He had no choice but to call out Obama.
McChrystal was a fool for accepting the position in the first place knowing how anti-military Obama was.
That’s it.
Let us face facts. We have no ally in Afghanistan. We have a whore who will sell his rump to the highest bidder, and keep playing the game against both camps. One of the greatest tragedies Afghanistan ever faced happened on September 10, 2001, when Ahmad Shah Masood, an honorable ban who was sure to end up leading the country, was assassinated by Taliban posing as an interview crew. I would have rather seen Abdullah Abdullah win the last election cycle, but the Afghan people now get to taste the fruits, bitter and otherwise, of their decisions.
Ralph Peters lambastes the fool running Afghanistan in an article posted at Real Clear Politics.
Cross-posted at RudyCarrera.com.
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