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| Napolitano: No War Here |
| 2009-12-30 |
| It's worth reading (don't worry, it's short) Janet Napolitano's op-ed in USA Today. As if to confirm Dick Cheney's claim that the Obama administration doesn't understand we're at war, Napolitano never uses the word...war. Nor does she mention Islam, Yemen or Nigeria -- nor any of the details of the incident, nor the particulars of the government failures over the last few months. Lots of op-eds ghost-written for cabinet secretaries are stupid. But this one may outdo them all in its vagueness and avoidance of substance, in its managing to be at once bureaucratic and cloying, and in speaking to the American people as if they are children. She attempts to reassure, and fails. By the way, since this was a plot hatched overseas by people whom our intelligence agencies are listening in on and trying to bump off -- is Napolitano really the appropriate lead official? It's revealing who the White House put out Sunday -- Napolitano and press secretary Robert Gibbs. For the Obama White House, it's all spin and TSA procedures. Do we still have a CIA director? I'd heard Panetta wasn't getting along with the White House...but is he even in the loop? |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #7 Its not 2012 [Nuc Iran] or 2013 yet [Nuclear Militancy-Terrorism]. IMO, when NATO Officio says that the US-NATO have ONE YEAR to turn things around in AFPAK = prove the merits of the POTUS Bammer's Afghan SUrge, methinks He = US-NATO realize the threat of 2013. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-12-30 19:20 |
| #6 Actually the photos of her always remind me of this scene from Charlie Wilson's War: Charlie Wilson: I stood in Harold Holt's office in Islamabad, and I offered him the keys to the safe. I said to him, "What do you need?" And I was apparently annoying him. Gust Avrakotos: Well, that's because Harold Holt is a tool. He's a cake-eater, he's a clown, he's a bad station chief, and I don't like to cast aspersions on a guy, but he's going to get us all killed. |
| Posted by: Matt 2009-12-30 16:52 |
| #5 Oh no, he got the reference right. I'm still snickering! |
| Posted by: Steve White 2009-12-30 14:44 |
| #4 "looks like General Bulkhalter" You misspelled "Bullsh*t," airandee. ;-p |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-12-30 14:26 |
| #3 Acts and sounds like Sargent Schultz but looks like General Bulkhalter. |
| Posted by: airandee 2009-12-30 14:06 |
| #2 The photo of Napolitano in the article needs to replace that of Sargeant Schultz. |
| Posted by: Hammerhead 2009-12-30 13:59 |
| #1 More idiotic statements uttered by incompetent idiots. By never mentioning the word the "W" [war] word, these bumblers are hoping it will go away. Naive stumbling, bumbling, ostriches. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2009-12-30 10:29 |