Posted on 12/17/2006 5:07:09 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, December 17th, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.; FedEx Corp. CEO Frederick Smith; retired Marine Corps Commandant Gen. P.X. Kelley, co-chairmen of the Energy Security Leadership Council; Morrill Worcester, president of Worcester Wreath.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.; retired Army Gen. Jack Keane; Rep.-elect Joe Sestak, D-Pa.; actor and activist Isaiah Washington.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi; Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Jack Reed, D-R.I.; Shibley Telhami, Brookings Institution; retired Army Gen. Daniel Christman; Vali Nasr, Council on Foreign Relations; John Podesta, Center for American Progress; Danielle Pletka, American Enterprise Institute.
I had a '66 LeMans convertible - midnight blue with a white top! and about 8mpg!
Here is a bit of what was covered This Week on FreeRepublic.com - The Threat Matrix:
WELCOME TO THE DECEMBER 2006 EDITION OF THE THREAT MATRIX
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts
A CLOSER LOOK
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=612#612
THE FROZEN BANK ACCOUNT
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=496#496
"MONEY LAUNDERING AND TERRORIST FINANCING"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=498#498
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=497#497
AN INTERESTING INTERVIEW
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=435#435
IT'S ON TV
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=468#468
HAVE YOU SEEN THESE GUYS? (Updated)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=504#504
"FREELANCE," "SELF-RECRUITED," "HOMEGROWN" JIHADISTS
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=704#704
HOW DO YOU STAY FIT?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=670#670
PENDING HOLIDAY ATTACKS?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=802#802
CHRISTMAS - MALL PLOT DISRUPTED
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=451#451
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=425#425
FAILED SHOPPING MALL BOMBER SENTENCED
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=729#729
"WARNING TO ISRAELIS: AL-QAEDA PLOTTING ATTACK IN GOA"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?q=1&&page=608#608
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=613#613
HAMAS
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=581#581
"...AUSCHWITZ, ANDAU AND DAUCHAU..." (Poster's personal memories)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=571#571
IRAN AND THE HOLOCAUST
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=791#791
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=637#637
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=547#547
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=546#546
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=529#529
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=475#475
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=414#414
IRAN AND AHMADINEJAD
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=806#806
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=639#639
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=759#759
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=490#490
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=436#436
"NEGOTIATE WITH IRAN?"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=413#413
SYRIA AND ISRAEL
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=491#491
THE CARTOON JIHAD AND A FATWA
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=740#740
RUMSFELD SAID IT
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=798#798
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=799#799
"BIN LADEN CHAMPAGNE" and "LASER POINTED AT COMMERCIAL JETS"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=783#783
THE FLYING IMAMS STILL IN THE NEWS & VIEWS
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=788#788
"ARE THE PLANES SAFE?"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=679#679
"CONFRONTING THE THREAT OF AN AL QAIDA WMD THREAT"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=537#537
SPECTER AND THE DEMOCRATS
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=807#807
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=753#753
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=611#611
DIA CLEARS IT UP
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=780#780
MORE ON THE IRAQ STUDY GROUP
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=739#739
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=446#446
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=447#447
"...READY TO INVESTIGATE"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=805#805
HE REALLY SAID THAT?!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=412#412
LOOKING AHEAD
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=555#555
FOLLOWING THE POISONED SPY TRAIL ON THE INTERNET
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=648#648
ECO-TERRORISTS: GUILTY
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=720#720
IDENTITY THEFT
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=730#730
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=722#722
GSPC
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=574#574
SOMALIA
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=682#682
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=578#578
PRINCE TURKI AL-FAISAL "ABRUPTLY FLEW OUT OF WASHINGTON"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=705#705
SHARING FOR "PEACEFUL PURPOSES"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=479#479
PEOPLE ARE STILL WATCHING THIS
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=532#532
Hmmmmmm....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=533#533
"BETHLEHEM NO LONGER SAFE FOR CHRISTIANS"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1747324/posts?page=808#808
:)
And yes as you say, "discriminating" has bitten the dust at the hands of the public schools and the libs.
Pretty sickening.
LOL. He was supposed to be finding out from them what he should be doing. I think the President has his own primary sources.
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"If you are going through hell, keep going." Winston Churchill
Sounds good to me.
Madame Hamhocks has them written on her ample thighs.
Hey Newt, We sent 500,000 troops to Vietnam at the height of our involvement. How did that work out for us?
Curious, did Newt say where he was going to get the 500,000 troops for Iraq?
Newt has become a perfect machine politician. He simply is picking up on what the DC Political-Media complex wants to hear and saying it. He and McCain are basically the singing the same one note DC Marching song. This way both of them can placate the Right by saying "See we are supporting the troops" and still suck up to the DC noise machine by being against how the Iraq mission is being run by the President.
It is short attention span theater time again. The American people simply lack the emotional or intellectually discipline to face anything that requires sustained effort. So as usually the political snake oil salesmen are crawling out of the slime with the usual simplistic answers and easy fixes. Only problem is what they are trying to selling on Iraq is pure poison. The DC "Conventional Wisdom" on Iraq is, as usual, neither conventional nor wisdom
What Newt SHOULD be doing is listening to what Gen Abizaid told the US Senate when he came back from Iraq to testify to the US Senate in mid November. Newt should become Gen Abizaids standard bearer. Position himself as the guy covering our troops back from the idiots in DC who STILL have learned nothing since LBJ screwed up "Nam.
For example, Newt could be raising the point that when asked specifically about troop levels by Sen McCain, Gen Abizaid (who only happens to be the actual commander on the Ground in Iraq) all but told McCain he is an utter idiot on Iraq. Gen Abizaid made it clear he did NOT need more troops. Newt should cut himself out of the 2008 pack by being the sane serious voice on Iraq backing up the Military rather then merely howling after the Junk Media pack. This "More Troops" propaganda line is both stupid political strategy and stupid military strategy.
There are 4 reasons why too many troops can be as bad as too few troops in a Counter Insurgency Mission.
Retardation, Marginalization, Friction and Unrealistic expectations.
Too many troops retards the locals efforts to develop their own military/political structure to govern . It takes time and effort to train and blood troops. It especially takes time to train up the cadre to run a serious military. Good NCOs and Officers are not born, they are made. This was on of the major US mistakes in Vietnam. It was easier to just have the US troops take over doing everything then work through the leaning curve of the locals. Problem was once the US no longer had the political will to carry on the mission they simply dumped the problem on an under developed Vietnamese political/military structure.
There is this odd American arrogance that seem to think ONLY Americans can do anything. Everyone else is incompetent and or corrupt. Only problem is the American public, like most spoiled brats, lacks the emotional or mental discipline to stick with unpleasant difficult tasks. Too many US troops would simply retards all efforts to get the locals to the point they can contain or break the Insurgents for themselves then when the petulant American people simply decided they wanted us to go home, there would be no one to pick up the bat for us.
Too many troops also marginalizes efforts to develop a counter political structure strong enough to break or contain the Insurgency. It deligitmizes the locals efforts and makes them simply look as lackeys of the occupying power. Having the US run everything marginalizes the political credibility of the local political structure and spurs the Insurgents propaganda and recruitment efforts.
The more troops the more friction with the locals. Face it, having a bunch of hyper aggressive mostly young mostly male Americans suddenly descend on you town is NO ones idea of a good time. Even in our own military towns there is a lot of friction between the locals and the military. Think how much worse that would be in an alien culture with a living memory of being a colony in everything but name? A heavily armed society with an exaggerated sense of male empowerment? Basically you have two aggressive testosterone drive heavily armed dominate male groups in close proximity.
Unrealistic Expectations. Send a lot troop and the expectation is you can quickly and easily solve all problems and bring the boys home. No, not in a Counter Insurgency. Counter Insurgency is evolutionary, not revolutionary. It takes time and lots of back breaking effort.. Sending a whole lot of troops simply exhausted your fiscal and military resources faster.
There are other things such as the added friction both on the locals and the US forces of having heavily armed, under trained conventional troops performing close combat operations in civilian areas. The counter productive results of a "kill people and wreck stuff" Conventional mentality in dealing with a Asymmetrical threat etc etc etc.
Frankly the DC Noise machine should simply shut up and get out of the US Military's way. They studied Vietnam hard and actually have the right answers here. As in Vietnam, the problem here is the "Washington Knows Best" mentality of the entrenched political media power structure who simply will sacrifice anything and anyone to avoid having to admit GW Bush has been right about Iraq all along.
And the lessons of history are ignored by those who hate this country with such a passion.
#459, actually I have it etched in my Mind by freepers and History that it was an Oldsmobile otherwise I could not tell unless I looked at the "oldsmobile" written on the front and rear ends. My youngest brother who was very quiet and shy could tell a "fitty nine" (59) Dodge Dart from half a mile away when he was three, and would climb into the bay window, point and announce it loudly to anyone that would listen. I remain clueless unless it is a vehicle that is really ugly or unique.
Jonah Goldberg has a nice, and I think correct, comment about Newt and his appearance today:
"Gingrich On Meet The Press [Jonah Goldberg]
I'm a critic of what appears to be his burgeoning front-porch strategy for the White House and I'm skeptical about his chances generally, but he really is the best conservative talker in America right now. He simply has no peer, save for Bill Clinton, in the ability to extemporaneously explain an idea or beat one back and sound perfectly reasonable in the process."
#464, that would be type casting in the Movies. He is a Juvenile, and never will grow up just like his fellow LIbs/Demrats.
I've never seen them all together at one time. This is the very template the Democrats have been using since 1992.
It worked perfectly in 2006. The GOP PTB better get their acts together, quick, and figure a way to counter it successfully because it is going to be "more of the same" in 2008 - this time for the Big Enchilada, once again.
Frankly, I doubt they even figured out how and what they were hit with in 2006. They still appear to me to be clueless.
Thanks Rodguy911.
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