Today’s shocking headline
Well, it’s not so shocking as it is completely expected. Not to mention nauseating and completely unnecessary. Jon Soltz spends nearly 600 words telling us what we already knew – he prays at the alter of Barack Obama, loves the smell of Barack Obama’s feet, and wishes he could be Michelle Obama and bear Barack’s children.
The Motor Pool Queen who dispatched trucks and drivers from the safety of Kuwait to Iraq for four months has the nerve to write;
For those of us who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq….
Fought what? Gerbil and dung beetle invasions? Boredom? The overwhelming sense of self satisfaction at being an insufferable prick?
Oh, and to show the types of people who pray at the altar of Jon Soltz, this bonehead, Jim Staro, (a VFP loudmouth, by the way – more evidence of the incestuous relationship between IVAW, VFP, VoteVets, etc…) in the comments quotes one of the biggest military failures of recent history;
Yes, Lyndon Johnson is in vogue again as a military philosopher. That’s how I got this red mark on my forehead.
Now, I’m not saying that I disagree with the President, I don’t on this particular issue – I told Kokesh that on video last week. But coming from Soltz – it just sounds like “Duh”.
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I was befuddled too. I totally support our commander in chief on this one. My question is this: If Vote Vets and IAVA were all for the Dwell Time requirements of the Webb bill before because the military was overworked, why is it they support an increase in troops in Afghanistan now, as opposed to when we actually draw down in Iraq?
Again, I totally support my CinC on this one, and think it is the proper route. But, won’t increased forces mean longer tours/shorter dwell times? Especially since the DoD shitcanned Stop/Loss.
No problem they support him, big problem that they don’t bring up any of the issues ancillary to this tactic, which they only do if there is an (R) located somewhere in close proximity to the name of the Commander.
Bear in mind also that VFP believes that National Guard should not be used over there, so I am wondering who Jim Staro thinks should be deployed? Doesn’t VFP also oppose A-stan?
I believe I read on the wire today that the US is finally getting smart about Afghan, and is sending in civilians to help these people, not soldiers to kill them. We will finally do what should have been the first tactic and have people trained in well digging, agriculture, medicine, schooling, all sorts of benificial programs that will help to bring the people of Afghanistan out of the hole we drove them into.
With improved agricultural technologies, they can grow crops in that environment that are benificial to the masses and not rely on the poppy that the US Govt allowed to be grown and smuggled into our country.
This surge will be of peace, and will help millions!
Lyndon Freakin Johnson? OMG, these people really are moonbats. Because he did such a great job with HIS war?
SD,
overdoing it…
Southern Democrat…Is that what folks refer to as satire where you come from? Seriously,if you truly feel that strong about the causes that you espouse…What is keeping you from going overseas (notably Afghanistan)and work in whatever field you specialize in to help these people? This is a sincere question!
Sorry TSO: Anything that cites LBJ SHOULD be suspect. Even in this bizzaro world who’d a thunk it?
Reckon I’m an anachronism. I expected our new Prez to act the warrior, but only to placate folks. It don’t mean nothin’. Diddle the language, play the part, dance on the graves. Or maybe I’m just paranoid?
Some of my folks hate Jane Fonda… to me – LBJ, McNamara, and Kissinger are the stereotypes.
We’ve got Obama and Clinton. BOHICA!
SD
That is what the military has been doing in both countries. Contrary to popular belief the military is not all combat arms.
“This surge will be of peace, and will help millions!”…
Ummm…you might ought to check your leg and the floor, SD. Don’t want ya slipping and falling on the puddle of *piddle* you may have left behind.
Pons? The adage “Say No to War….Unless a Democrat is President” comes to mind.
*snerk*
I say let’s take up a collection to send brother Syph Drip to help his Afghani peeps, who – when left to their own devices – seem to have stopped evolving or improving societally since about 1100 A.D. Granted, Al Gore may swoon in his pretty pink panties at the thought of people cooking their local roadkill rodent meat over a camel-shit fire, screwing their ten year old kids and gutting their women for wanting to speak, or go to school… but most of civilization found that a less than satifactory lifetsyle a few centuries back.
OH –
And LBJ???? Yessir, everyone in MY age group SURE remembers what a fine, effin’-A job that POS did for us in Nam – I think he had to order overtime shifts at the body-bag factories to accomodate his CinC leadership….. yippe ki yay….
Why is it that countries dont have the right to, as you say, evolve into what they want to be. We have to go in and tell someone they have to watch HBO, or tell them they have to become a slave to the salesmen of the crap China and the US produces?
You see a country, and a people that is different and you decide we have to go in and change them?
Where in the constitution does it say we’re the world police?
Where does it say we’re the friendly aliens that come in and give the poor low class people the amazing technology from the future that will change their lives…it doesnt. We should leave well enough alone.
Hmmm, I see a thread here, Syph Drippings posted at 2:32am, he got shot down at the bar. All the hairy hippy chicks knew better and found someone nearing manhood, leaving SD to pound his pud and go home to momma’s basement to post his drivel yet again.
SD…You still have not responded to post #6.My question that I posed to you was not sarcasm or a joke! I truly would like to know your opinion on a peaceful-“civil” surge and the role that you would take in this new “fuzzy” shift of our strategy?
Perhaps you have heard of the old saying…Leadership by example?