Troops worry about hashtag war
I don’t know how much stock I put in this story, but NBC reports that “some commanders” of special forces troops are concerned that the #bringbackourgirls hashtag thing is going to get them bogged down in Nigeria;
According to two well-placed defense department sources, senior Special Operations commanders — those in charge of the Navy SEALs, Delta Force and the Ranger Regiment — have told their men to be ready, assuming that eventually “the hashtag will bring us out.”
“We’re being tweeted into combat,” said a military official who spoke to NBC News but asked not to be identified.
Like I said, I don’t think this is a real worry. As little regard as I have for the current administration, I don’t think they’re as susceptible to the calls from the slacktivists as the skinnyjeans crowd would like to think. I’m pretty sure that they’re well aware of how the historians would judge them…after all, that’s what they’re most worried about – their legacy.
Thanks to Pinto Nag for the link.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Terror War
Think that hash tag is more like a dogwhistle for the left and their blind followers…Or dog bone.
I seem to recall little interest in Bosnia until Rosie, Oprah, and the usual suspects started screaming about sending in troops in. Then it suddenly became a moral imperative.
+100 – my memory of it too
Wasn’t there also a presidential blowjob issue somewhere in there?
# unbelievable
#whatacrockofshit
Another Democratic administration, another piss poor reason to go to war, get a lot of good people killed, and have fuck all to show for it.
#anotherliberalquagmire
They’ve already sent what – eighty personnel to Nigeria, that’s EIGHTY MORE than they sent to rescue the US Ambassador to Libya!
They are said to be hanging in Chad. Yeah, that was easy. Thanks. Great group. Thursday. Veal.
I think they have reason to worry. You hear over and over again from Dem politicians that we can accomplish military objectives with “special forces and air power” because then they can fight objectively evil people with a small military footprint (and presumably without so many messy casualties).
But that seems to be predicated on some image of SF personnel as some sort of supermen and, if we remember Mogadishu, sometimes such a force is just big enough to get in trouble. Of course, since the administration knows that the media and the left (but I repeat myself) will cover for them until the bitter end, they know that they won’t have to answer too many difficult questions.
#Istillcallitapoundsign
#Itsstillanumbersigntome
I have always had the feeling that Obama wanted us involved in Africa. With Boko Haram’s links with Al-Qaida combined with the moral lure of kidnapped girls…I’m not sure this administration is going to be able to resist.
Ironic, considering his oft-repeated views on “colonialism.”
According to news reports, a Nigerian “top military official” says they know where the girls are but that force won’t be used or the girls would be harmed. No shit. So, they are negotiating through a former president of Nigeria. That’s nice. Negotiating with terrorists. When one side wants to kill all of the infidels, end western-style anything and everything in a country, and can justify rape and murder as due punishment, well, let’s just say that the other side may not get too very far with their offers.
Obama is batting his gums right now at West point. I lasted about five minutes but had to move on after he started talking about Burma as a shining example of something or over. He also says that the Nigerian girls have to be rescued “right away.” Um, pres baby, right away disappeared about five weeks ago. And he sounds like he’s talking to widdle kiddies. I am supremely confident that this foreign policy commencement address will provide hours of laughter for all of us in the coming days, beginning with what Big Media chooses to run with and chooses to ignore.
Obama, Michelle and the left have a “cause” now. Forget the thousands of American children kidnapped every year by other than family members. There’s no hash tag campaign for them. But for a relatively, compared to the American kids, very few Nigerian girls, Obama is ready to see body bags come home. I have never been able to suffer this fool in the Oval Office and my feelings have only become more jaded each time he opens his mouth. What the hell does Burma have to do with shit in the world? By the way Obama, did you miss the coup in Thailand recently? If you really, really try you could find a reason to go restore a democratic government there too. Bunghole Licker!!!
Same with Somalia. Wasn’t on the radar until Audrey Hepburn got sick doing aid over there. Then all the leftists were up in Bush’s face “new world order eh?”. So in we went, despite the fact that Angola had been much bloodier for much longer.