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Yet, in Afghanistan, we've put the bulk of our efforts into turning a vast flophouse into the Four Seasons instead of focusing ruthlessly on our terrorist enemies. It's politically correct madness.
keeps people like KBR anf Dynacorp in business tho
GEN. Stan McChrystal, an honorable soldier, has reported from Afghani stan: He wants more troops for a "classic" counterinsurgency strategy to secure the population, then win hearts and minds.
President Obama needs to make a decision: Either give the general the resources he believes he needs, or change the mission.
I'm for changing the mission. Concentrate on the continued destruction of al Qaeda and its allies. Nothing else matters in this mess.
Last spring, the president handed McChrystal an impossible mission: Turn Afghanistan into a prosperous, rule-of-law democracy cherished by its citizens. The general's doing his best. But we have zero chance -- zero -- of making that happen. The more I think about it, the more I feel that Peters' approach is the only one that makes sense.
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What we really need is just a compact, lethal force of special operators, intelligence resources and air assets, along with sufficient conventional forces for protection and punitive raids.
But Congress said its illegal! Peters makes a lot of sense--take the fight to them, wherever they may hide.
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Cut off the Paki jizya pipeline too. Of course the last time Clinton and Congress did that, we got 9/11 in response.
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As we would prolly need at least two decades in Afghanistan to fix the professional martial culture I think Peters is basically restating what many of us on here have already mentioned.
I'm pretty sure Gen McC has Sun Tzu memorized, I'm also pretty sure Obama thinks Sun Tzu is combo #8 at the local Chinese take-out.
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Last Friday night, OReilly and Beck had a back-and-forth about communism (inspired by Becks takedown of self-proclaimed communist and presidential adviser Van Jones). OReilly opined (I hate that word but he likes it, so there it is) that he was afraid of Islamo-fascists but not of communists. Like many Americans, OReilly thinks that because the communist party is almost a thing of the past (it exists but is not and will not be big enough to throw its weight around again), the communist idea is dead. It is not.
Its interesting that we have words like neo-Nazi to describe post-Hitler Nazis, and neo-conservative to describe liberals who left the Democratic Party when it took a sharp turn to the left, but not neo-Communist to describe the massive numbers of people on the left and among them very influential people who share, almost to the jot and tittle, the old communist view of capitalism, and are prepared to act on that perception.
Michael Moores new film promises to be a dramatization of this view of capitalism if his communist propaganda film Sicko is any indication). Neo-communists like Moore share the old communists antipathy for the United States and sympathy for its enemies, even enemies as evil as Iran and Hizbollah. Noam Chomsky, the self-hating MIT sociopath is a big fan of the Hizbollah and Hamas Nazis, so deep is his hatred for Jews and the United States.
Neo-communism is a view whose members consider themselves citizens of the world, not of America, and who therefore agitate for open borders and want the morally repulsive collection of autocracies, slaveocracies and kleptocracies called the United Nations to reign over us and the world.
A neo-communist is someone who believes that America is ruled by corporations who put profit over people and thereby show that they dont understand either profit or people. A neo-communist is someone who is convinced that race, class, and gender hierarchies make it not only legitimate but necessary to describe America as a white supremacist society. Neo-communists believe that a revolution is necessary (if not opportune at the moment), that the Constitution is a disposable document, and that Americas communist and Islamo-fascist enemies (Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Hizbollah, the PLO and Hamas), are freedom fighters or at least on the right side of the armageddon that faces us.
These are views shared by The Nation magazine, by Commonsense.org, by the Indymedia crowd, by the social justice movement, by the majority of the Black Caucus and the Progressive Caucus on the Democratic side in Congress, and by tens of thousands of university professors who indoctrinate their students in these pernicious ideologies every day. They are the views held by the leaders of ACORN, the SEIU, AFCSME and other leftwing unions, by radical feminists, by organizations like MALDEF and La Raza, by the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights who are working to support the Islamo-fascist agenda in America, by the major Muslim organizations including the Muslim Students Association, CAIR, and the Islamic Circle of North America. And I could continue, but why bother? (Those curious enough can pick up a copy of my book Unholy Alliance and read for themselves my views on The Mind of the Left and its global struggles.)
This coalition, which I have called the unholy alliance, presents a massive threat to Americas security and its individual freedoms and its free market system, and if someone who has been as gutsy in going after Americas enemies generally (and going after the ACLU in particular) as Bill OReilly has still doesnt see this, we have a lot of consciousness raising left to do.
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Lets look at ANTI-OBAMACARE PROTEST SIGNS shall we, as per the TV Tube...
To wit > "CONSERVATIVES/CAPITALISTS ARE NOW COMMUNISTS".
NO, then howzabout 1990's NET > "FASCISTS-FOR- COMMUNISM", "ANARCHISTS -FOR-CONSERVATISM", "NATIONALISTS-FOR-GLOBALISM, "FEDERALISTS-FOR-.................@
and VICEY VERSEYS.
* IIRC "BLOOM COUNTY" Skit > D *** NG IT, "CONTEMPORIZE, MAN, COMTEMPORIZE"!
Or how science will turn into a religion, which will need ever-increasing tithes to keep its priesthood in the splendor they automatically think they are entitled to.
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