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2011-03-07 Africa North

Debka: US, anti-Qaddafi forces lack military strength

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Posted by Pappy 2011-03-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 I basically take everything from DEBKA as fantasy. Yesterday they had Gates going to Cairo ... he's in Kabul.

Posted by crosspatch 2011-03-07 06:11|| 2011-03-07 06:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Save the AVGAS. Nothing he or anyone else can achieve in either Kabul or Cairo. He should have gone to Peoria. He might have learned something about fly-over country and real America. Knowledge he and his lazy assed boss are dreadfully lacking.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-03-07 09:04|| 2011-03-07 09:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Don't tar Gates with Obama's incompetent silliness.

Gates was the prexy at Texas A&M for a while. He was good friends with my family and he and I had a couple of chats. He wrote a letter to my son thanking him on his Eagle Scout.

Gates is the one person in the Obama regime I trust. He is basically a conservative and I think he is trying to continue Rummy's plans to rationalize the military from a cold war mentality in which most of the generals and feathermerchants are stuck into the Patreaus model of large numbers of special ops guys, light infantry, quick strike mobile forces and counter insurgency trained independent small units. Many of the generals still like strategic bombers, interceptors instead of attack aircraft and armor instead of light infantry. It took almost six years for the Army to get the message, hence the success in Iraq and the latest progress in Afghanistan.
Gates is going to continue to be painted as a blithering idiot by the press because he is a Bush guy. Isn't it interesting that Obama sent him instead of Biden or one of his other empty suits to Afghanistan.
AND wasn't it interesting that Gates is saying the military should stay awhile longer than originally planned.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2011-03-07 10:08|| 2011-03-07 10:08|| Front Page Top

#4 AND wasn't it interesting that Gates is saying the military should stay awhile longer than originally planned. Posted by Bill Clinton

No Bill, with due respect, it isn't at all "interesting" but rather, most unfortunate. There will be no "democratizing" or bringing civility to these ancient tribes, not in our lifetimes. Unfortunately, we find ourselves once again in a no-win Police Action, backing a vile and currupt regime of drug smugglers, warlords and highwaymen. Afghanistan is another planet, a distant planet that may never be re-shaped into anything which might sustain life and the rule of law as we know it. The faster we can get out of Afghanistan, the better for all concerned. Our president and the US State Department are giving it thier dead level best to extricate us I can assure you. The taxpayers and our brave soldiers are footing the bill and blood for that very costly effort.

If any good can be said for Secretary Gates it must surely be that he is loyal to a fault. I'll toss in the loyalty of the Chairman and Joint Chiefs as well. It takes an extreme amount of loyalty to remain silent or endorse with consent 'man buggering' and lesbianism as acceptable practices in our military. Men that possess this type of blind loyalty have throughout history been found at the right hand of tyrants. Sic Semper Tyrannis.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-03-07 12:50|| 2011-03-07 12:50|| Front Page Top

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