Posted on 10/06/2009 12:45:37 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
"Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint." (Proverbs 29:18)
"…abandonment of strategic vision leads to policy decisions that damage the national security of the country." (The USA- a special nation with special responsibilities)
The headline at newsmax.com says "Obama Moves to Muzzle Top Military Commanders." The words call to mind the passage in the Plato's Republic where Socrates compares the warriors who keep watch over the city to guard dogs. The image of America's armed forces as guard dogs wearing muzzles can only give comfort to our enemies.
"The Administration's primary target: top Afghanistan commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal, whose speech in London last week apparently caught administration officials off guard….In his speech McChrystal defended his request for 40.000 more soldiers to wage a counter-insurgency campaign in Afghanistan, warning "a strategy that does not leave Afghanistan in a stable position is probably a shortsighted strategy….McChrystal said the vice-president's proposal to scale back the objectives for the war would lead to "chaos-istan."
Shallow pundits focus attention on Obama's failure to win Chicago the Olympic committee's nod as the location of the 2016 Olympic Games. Meanwhile, here's evidence that he's losing something far more crucial to the survival of the nation- the respect of the U.S. military. In the position he presently claims, he is supposed to represent civilian control of the military on behalf of the American people. Failure to do so competently raises the specter of chaos far closer to home than Afghanistan, as the United States enters the jungle of military disgust with civilian authority that has swallowed the governments and constitutions of many a "banana republic" in our neighborhood to the south.
(Excerpt) Read more at loyaltoliberty.com ...
Racist!!!! Oh, right......never mind.
Definitely worth reading the whole article.
At worst, they foster the suspicion that [Obama] regards the ultimate goal the Constitution sets for the U.S. government―to "secure the blessing of liberty"― with the same contempt he has shown for its provisions regarding the prerequisites for the office he purports to occupy by its authority.
Sadly, I think that's the case.
By designed incompetence.
LOL...
Brutha can’t be dissin anuthu brutha.
Keyes has it right. Obama is destroying the momentum that George Bush has built up in the war against terror.
Off guard. They weren't even paying attention. Getting the Olympic games were more important to guarding America's men and women on the front lines.
McCrystal said CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? how many times did this guy try to get an answer from the president.
Indeed. And American servicemen are paying for it with their lives.
The only question left is how many will have to die.
Couldn’t Obama just vote (Present) on this decision. /sarc
Clearly what is needed here is a war czar. Bammy has other things to do.
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