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| VDH: The Un-Midas touch |
| 2014-08-12 |
| [PJ Media] "Tell me, doc. Why do all these bad things keep happening to me?" Rhetorical question of course, everyone knows as a half-black I've been racially targeted. Thanks doc. Everything that Champ touches seems to turn to dross. Think of it for a minute. He inherited a quiet Iraq (no American combat deaths at all in December 2009). Joe Biden bragged of the calm that it would be the administration's "greatest achievement." But by pulling out all U.S. peacekeepers -- mostly for a 2012 reelection talking point -- Obama ensured an ISIS wasteland. He put his promised eye on Afghanistan at last, and we have lost more soldiers there than during the Bush administration and a Taliban victory seems likely after more than a decade of lost American blood and treasure. The message seems to be that it is better for Obama to have his eye off something than on it. Remember those threats to Syria? After the U.S. threatened and backed off, the violence only escalated and spilled into Iraq. Libya was no paradise under Gadhafi, but it is now Mogadishu on the Mediterranean. Not even the president's supporters believe that he told the truth about Benghazi. Reset with Russia green-lighted Putin, as he sized up Champ as a Israel? We never have been more estranged from the Jewish state. Open mic outbursts against Netanyahu define our true policies. The terrorist state run by Hamas is now a partner for peace -- tunnels, missiles, syringes, handcuffs and all. Did outreach to Hamas lessen or spike violence? Did the "special relationship" with the Islamist Recep Erdogan lead to regional calm, and does it still exist? The war on terror? Champ has derided most anti-terrorism protocols, even as he kept some Bush-Darth Cheney policies -- to the incoherent point that no one has any idea what the U.S. is doing. Jihad a personal odyssey? Muslim Brotherhood largely secular? Major Hasan's murdering mere workplace violence? Outreach to Islam NASA's primary mission? Remember overseas contingency operations and man-caused disasters? In the Champ's war on terror, waterboarding three architects of 9/11 is our "folks" torturing their "folks"; but judge/jury/executioner drone strikes that blow up 2,000-plus suspected (not confessed) terrorists -- and anyone in the general vicinity when the missile hits -- are far more moral. Out of sight, out of mind. When CIA Director John Brennan speaks, we all Ditto for the DNI and with the exception of General Mike Flynn and his former deputy at DIA, nearly everyone else in intelligence community senior positions. Past cabinet heads? No one knows exactly the circumstances under which Lisa Jackson, Hilda Solis -- and even David Petraeus -- left their offices. No one knows? How about their utility as throne sniffing, 'useful idiots' had expired ? |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 And as I said the other day, we don't need another Reagan, we need another Calvin Coolidge. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2014-08-12 15:00 |
| #5 From your lips to God's ears, RJ. I wish I could be so sure. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2014-08-12 14:59 |
| #4 no mo uro, I'm not sure I agree. The electorate feels very similar to what we had during Carter. Oil prices are worse but we are better positioned. Our international enemies are crazier but patheticaly weak compared to the Soviets. If we had another Reagan this whole thing could be turned around for another couple of decades until the folks forgot and the rot accumulated again. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-08-12 14:53 |
| #3 |
| Posted by: Big Thromoth3646 2014-08-12 06:26 |
| #2 The electorate became so risk-averse, so obsessed with comfort and living anxiety-free and status-obsessed, that it believed electing someone like this was at best harmless but in most cases really awesome. Too many have e had it too good for too long not on skill and hard work but on borrowed money and promises of crappy politicians, educators, and entertainers that they started believing in the proverbial never-melting, self-licking ice cream cone. Damned fools. Obama is a symptom, not a cause, of the malady that affects the U.S. and really the West in general. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2014-08-12 05:23 |
| #1 Every VDH article is a must read IMOA. |
| Posted by: borgboy 2014-08-12 03:53 |