Politico asks if Obama crowd is “Team of Bumblers”

Michael Hirsch at Politico asks if the Obama Administration is a “Team of Bumblers?” Specifically, Hirsch is wondering if Susan Rice and Chuck Hagel are having trouble communicating between the White House and the Pentagon in the opening days of the White House’s response to the ISIS crisis. His examination of the administration is too narrow. It’s not that just this group of Democrats is a bunch of bumblers, the whole ideology is bumbling.

The Democrats are too shortsighted and too idealistic to be responsible for a whole country. They think that by saying “No more war”, the whole concept of war will end worldwide. They think that by extending unemployment benefits, somehow that will cure unemployment. Yes, there’s a surge in employment this year – but that’s because unemployment benefits ran out and people have to go to work.

They think that they can treat the military like shit and recruitment and retention will remain constant, but now two years into it, they realize that it won’t. They think that by pulling all of the US troops from Iraq, there’d be no more war there. And here we are sending thousands of US troops back because al Qaeda and ISIS disagreed with their original contention.

This administration decided that the focus of the Pentagon should be on the Pacific Rim, again, al Qaeda and ISIS disagreed that should be the focus – so now we have troops returning to Iraq and a new front has opened in Africa.

They decided that withdrawing troops from Afghanistan would end the war there, too, but this year has been the most violent in that country for Afghanis than any prior year.

Jimmy Carter decided that all war had ended, too. He screwed the shit out of the troops and then, in 1979, when Iran made hostages of the Embassy staff in Tehran and the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, Carter had to reinstate draft registration after his Republican predecessor, Nixon had done away with the draft and after Carter had given amnesty to the previous war’s draft dodgers and the military was dangerously understaffed.

Democrats, for some reason, can’t see past the next election – that’s what the complete withdrawal from Iraq was all about, the 2012 presidential election. I remember in 1980, after screwing the troops’ pay for three years, Jimmy Carter gave us a 30% pay raise a month before the election hoping to reestablish his national security creds, but he was about three years, and one Desert One, too late.

Now we have a Pentagon which focuses on “climate change”, sexual preferences of the troops, opening up the combat arms specialties to people who clearly can’t make the standard, and planning for war in a part of the world that really isn’t an immediate threat. They raided retired vets $770 million Tricare surplus while raising their healthcare costs.

They are hurriedly trying to assemble a missile defense for eastern Europe after collapsing to Russian pressure just a few years ago.

They gave an entire continent the impression that they would welcome an influx of illegal immigrants if they’d just get here – causing another humanitarian crisis. They’re currently telling the American people how it’s difficult to catch the Ebola virus, while cases are popping up all over the country.

But, hey, they got their chance to prove how corrupted is their worldview and how inept they are at national security issues. Bumbling? I don’t think that term is strong enough.

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