Posted on 11/23/2015 3:57:56 AM PST by HomerBohn
"(1st Lt. Norman) Dike wasn't a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions." -- 2001 HBO TV miniseries "Band of Brothers."
For the first time in generations, America needs a strong president, a wartime president. Instead we have President Barack Obama, a limp noodle who sits in the Oval Office; he's mostly busy working on his legacy as a black man who was once a Muslim boy and is today a defender of that religion.
Obama doesn't even have the sense to surround himself with good advisers, only sycophants who sing his praises as Heinrich Himmler sang them to Adolf Hitler.
Just hours after the bloody assault on Paris last Friday, Obama's secretary of state, John Kerry, was giving his practical solutions to the global Islamic terrorists pouring out of Syria. Kerry said the way to stop the bloodlust is to set up a transitional government for Syria in the next six months and elections in just 18 months. Who knows? Kerry may believe that by decade's end, Damascus, Syria, will turn into Monte Carlo, Monaco. But the Bush neocons thought this magic would happen in Iraq and only later found out it was a tribal country where order was kept by an ironfisted dictator. When Saddam Hussein went, not only did the trains not run on time, they didn't run at all.
Syria has another problem: The exponential growth of terrorist fighters in the region has rendered its borders meaningless. Kerry's idea of fixing Syria and arresting ISIS is tantamount to painting the Titanic as it rests on the bottom of the Atlantic.
Please bring infantry
Obama said Monday at the close of the G-20 meeting in Turkey that sending troops into Syria to fight ISIS, aka ISIL, would be a "would be a mistake -- not because our military could not march into Mosul (Iraq) or Raqqa (Syria) or Ramadi (Iraq) and temporarily clear out ISIL, but because we would see a repetition of what we've seen before ..."
It would be nice if Obama were to pick up a history book, especially since he is commander in chief of the United States and is the de facto leader of the free world.
In World War II, British Air Marshal Arthur "Butcher" Harris declared to Allied leaders that his fleet of heavy bombers alone would bring about a quick end to the war. Hermann Goering, Hitler's commander and chief of the Luftwaffe, believed the same thing a few years earlier and promised Hitler the Battle of Britain would be over before winter set in and his bombers had had their run. Both were proven dreadfully wrong because the people of England and Germany dug themselves out from the rubble each morning more determined than ever to fight on.
What any successful conclusion to a war depends on is infantry that take and hold ground. As it stands now, Obama does not want to make such a fateful decision because he wants to bookend his legacy as the peace president, between George W. Bush and next November's winner. I suppose he believes that his unsullied Nobel Peace Prize is more important to him than living up to his oath of office to "... preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
What he has done instead is preach to the American people on the virtues of Islam. In contrast, French President Francois Hollande said over the weekend that the attack that killed at least 129 and injured more than 300 civilians in Paris was an "act of war."
If it is a war, Obama has no commitment to win it. He demands the world understand that enemy combatants are terrorists or extremists that are no way associated with Islam. To hear Obama speak, these executions of women and children may be the work of Buddhists.
A Jimmy Carter speech from the White House would have sounded uncompromising compared to Obama's olive-branch gesture over the weekend to Muslims around the world. Where are men like Gen. George S. Patton with his Colt .45 revolver and leather gloves when you need him?
It gets worse. On Monday, Obama stated he is committed to allowing 10,000 Syrian refugees to come to America. Can you imagine President Franklin D. Roosevelt allowing thousands of Japanese sanctuary in the United States? Instead, FDR interned 120,000 Japanese Americans behind barbed-wired internment camps. Of course, that was a war; and that is the last thing on Obama and his Democratic cronies' minds.
Instead, Democratic presidential candidates like Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are not bothered by the growing Islamic radicalism. The six people who watched the Democratic debate heard what worried Sanders 24 hours after the Paris attack. When asked whether he still believed climate change to be "the greatest threat to national security," Sanders replied: "Absolutely."
Comedian Larry David, the co-creator of "Seinfeld" who has played Sanders on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" would be a better president. Man-made global warming is a theory that is a stretch, at best, and does not come close to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Yet to Sanders, global warming could destroy Planet Earth. Imagine the laughter around the ISIS camel tent when people like Sanders say such ridiculous pronouncements. For that matter, Clinton, the shoe-in for the Democratic nomination, isn't much better.
When pushed by the debate moderator during the same debate, Clinton said the fight is against violent extremists and not Islam (it must just be coincidence that the terrorists kill over a cartoon of Muhammad and can be heard screaming "Allahu Akbar" in the middle of a killing spree.
What are the chances that if Democrats elect Clinton as the next president, she will be more like the grand appeaser, Neville Chamberlain, and not the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher? America is stuck for now with Obama for at least another year, and the only serious Democratic contender, Clinton, is of the same ilk.
If elected president, she will put America in a grave situation. But the graves will be filled with the very people she too will have sworn to protect
Baring impeachment, resignation or assassination we have another year of this feckless a-hole of a president to suffer through. There will be another attack by the Saracen bastards somewhere and it will pale in comparison to Paris. God help us all.
Bad dope, in more ways than one...
He is not inept. These are deliberate acts on his part, on behalf of his agenda.
Check out Judge Pirro’s scathing take down of
our feckless leader.
A MUST SEE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sorpTOyJXf8
This ‘administration’ is a crime in progress and there’s no other way to describe it.
Obama is a successful treasonous Moslem.
It is the US Congress which is inept, evil, lying,
corrupt, and will go down in history for its
neglect of the Oaths these “people” took.
Half of that is true.
We have needed a wartime President since 8:46 am on September 11, 2001, and we've only been punished with "Obama" since noon on January 20, 2009.
Only error. It was “Bomber” Harris. Where he got the nickname “Butcher”, I have no idea.
The blood of innocent Americans will be on their hands if they let this criminal continue with his strategic placing of Muslims throughout this nation.
They should be tried as accomplices to a crazed and evil despot.
Was it worth it, Ryan and McConnell. Standing by and doing nothing while knowing the carnage that will ensue makes you two willing accomplices to murder.
Cuff ‘em Dano.
Because the stupid voters in the country outnumbered the smart ones and gave him the job. Twice.
1) Following the Charlie Hebdo Attack in January of this year, No senior US Official joined the Paris solidarity march against terrorism that DID include 40 world leaders. Instead, the US Ambassador to France represented our nation.
2) The White House demonstrated its lighting technology on June 29th when it 'painted' the White House in the Rainbow GLBT... colors following the US Supreme Court strike-down of DOMA (Gay Marriage!) On other occasions it has done pink for breast cancer and other color schemes as well. ... Yet, following the 11/13 terrorist Paris attack, when MULTIPLE nations on 11/14 lit their landmarks with the colors of the French Flag, 'The Tricolor', nobody, so far as I can find out, made the effort at the White House. Of course Obama and party were traveling and I'm sure that the carrier pigeon got lost!
BO is just the symptom of the problem with this country. The real problem is that there are useful idiots in this country who had him elected TWICE. ...and they’re still around here somewhere (probably stuffing ballot boxes and preparing to defraud the next election). THIS is what some people want.
It’s amazing how many don’t realize that.
Lighting up the White House in red, white and blue was suggested by an aid, but Valarie Jerrett nixed it because it would look “too patriotic” and bolster the right wing.
Revisionist historians changed “Bomber” to “Butcher” because of all the collateral damage caused by R A F Bomber Command.
The White Hut pays a lighting technician $75K annually to perform this function vital to America.
Is this in print somewhere? I can easily see the ignoble leftist saying it but would love to see the full context. Of course, it would be the French Tricolor of "Blue, White and Red", but then again they at the White House are backwards so idiocy will out!
I see. WWII was all our fault, afterall!
Thanks for the info. I will stick with “Bomber”.
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