Posted on 09/08/2009 1:08:21 PM PDT by fiscon1
There's a saying that goes "death by a thousand paper cuts". This means that one individual makes a bunch of little mistakes that ultimately turn into a big mistake that they can't fix. The president is doing something similar but his mistakes aren't small individually but rather huge and taken together he's experiencing death by a thousand machetes.
(Excerpt) Read more at theeprovocateur.blogspot.com ...
And I thought this was an MS-13 reference...
I love the title, it’s both witty and fitting.
Near the end of the article the author says: “We’re about to lose in Afghanistan and we’re even starting to lose again in Iraq.”
This is totally unsurprising to me, when you get the politicians defining and re-defining operations constantly (i.e. micromanaging) it is absurdly easy to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Take the homeland defense mission “Operation Nobel Eagle 3” it was a mission guarding sensitive locations, in the continental US... the morale was hideously low at white Sands even though most the troops were less than 2 or 3 hours drive... why? because the command couldn’t logistic its way out of a paper bag AND couldn’t let the company/platoon commanders handle the scheduling (power struggle) and ONE day off every three weeks.
For Democrats foreign policy is merely a distraction from the Necessary Work that Must Be Done. Foreign policy distracts from the task of implementing Socialism. Foreign policy to a Democrat is periodic trips to receive adulation and recharge their batteries for the domestic battle. Anything else is irritating and mostly ignored.
Yeah Ms13 is Mama something right? not machetes...
Where are the forks and spoons?
Mara Salvatrucha - their favorite “tool” is the machete.
Ah machetes.
In 1976, my family spent a couple weeks in El Salvador. We came back with two beautiful chrome machetes in very ornately decorated leather cases. (souveneirs)
My brother and I (both kids) wore them on our belts during the airplane trip back.
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