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2014-05-30 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Fred 2014-05-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 *cough*Libya*cough*

The EO prez doesn't seem to grasp that other components of not being weak, are decisiveness and effectiveness. The proverbial amateurish Chinese Fire Brigade approach to events comes across as, indeed, weak.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-05-30 08:21|| 2014-05-30 08:21|| Front Page Top

#2 "Tough talk often draws headlines but war rarely conforms to slogans," Obama said.

He must be referring to...."red lines."

Posted by Besoeker 2014-05-30 08:26|| 2014-05-30 08:26|| Front Page Top

Posted by Besoeker 2014-05-30 09:25|| 2014-05-30 09:25|| Front Page Top

#4 We will fight them on the platitudes. We will fight them on the hash tags. We will fight them in the fields of straw men.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-05-30 10:32|| 2014-05-30 10:32|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm using that (unless you're one of the Righthaven folks), swksvolFF.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2014-05-30 11:18|| 2014-05-30 11:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Take it.

As Bobby noted, this guy's speeches are never about the audience. If it were, he wouldn't be up there bragging about how he is going to arm the very people these graduates are about to go out and combat.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-05-30 12:26|| 2014-05-30 12:26|| Front Page Top

#7 And label them domestic terrorists when they return home.

Posted by Lowspark 2014-05-30 16:41|| 2014-05-30 16:41|| Front Page Top

#8 "The President is giving the American people what they want to hear. But this is not the job of the President."

Posted by newc 2014-05-30 16:42|| 2014-05-30 16:42|| Front Page Top

#9 We will fight them on the platitudes. We will fight them on the hash tags. We will fight them in the fields of straw men. We will never surrender without a vote. And if by no fault of ours we are overcome we will wait for the day when the new world is better able to adapt to diversity and gather our strength, which is our diversity, and regain the old. Or not, depends actually.

Posted by Shipman 2014-05-30 17:37|| 2014-05-30 17:37|| Front Page Top

#10 Well said, swksvolFF!

~~You left out "We shall always give up."~~

Posted by Barbara 2014-05-30 21:26|| 2014-05-30 21:26|| Front Page Top

#11 OTOH CHINA DAILY > [Daily Sheeple] USDOD SECRETARY HAGEL ADMITS, [21ST Century] "NEW WORLD ORDER BEING BUILT".

Title paraph for clarity.

* DRUDGEREPORT > [FT.com] FIGHTING TALK AMID SHRINKING OF AMERICAN MILITARY MIGHT, OBAMA SEEKING TO SCALE BACK US GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY WIDOUT SIGNALLING A RETREAT.

As a reminder, as the US retreats or pulls back across the world, it may decide to destroy stratgic Pacific isles, e.g. GUAM, ETAL., wid "Earthquake/Tectonic Bombs" in order to deny to enemies, ala so-called "A2/AREA-DENIAL".

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-05-30 23:10|| 2014-05-30 23:10|| Front Page Top

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