Posted on 10/14/2009 3:19:12 PM PDT by Syncro
NATURAL-BORN LOSERS
October 14, 2009
The question of whether President Obama should send more troops to Afghanistan misses the point.
What Obama really needs to do is: Invent a time machine, go back to the 2008 presidential campaign and not say, over and over and over again, that Afghanistan was a "war of necessity" while the war in Iraq was a "war of choice." (Oh, and as long as you're back there, ditch Van Jones, Valerie Jarrett and that gay "school safety" czar.)
The most important part of warfare is picking your battlefield, and President Bush picked Iraq for a reason.
Neither Iraq nor Afghanistan attacked us on 9/11 -- or the dozen other times American embassies, barracks and buildings came under jihadist onslaught since Jimmy Carter presided over "regime change" in Iran in 1979. Both countries -- and others -- gave succor to terrorists who had attacked the U.S. repeatedly, and would do so again.
As liberals endlessly reminded us during the three weeks of war in Afghanistan before the U.S. military swept into Kabul, Afghanistan has all the makings of a military disaster. It is mountainous, cave-pocked, tribal, has no resources worth fighting for and a populace that makes Khalid Sheikh Mohammed look like Alistair Cooke.
By contrast, Iraq had a relatively educated, pro-Western populace, but was ruled by a brutal third-world despot.
It's always something with the Muslims. You either have mostly sane people governed by a crazy dictator -- Iraq, Iran and Syria (also California and Michigan) -- or a crazy people governed by relatively sane leaders -- Pakistan and Afghanistan, post-U.S. invasion (also Vermont and Minnesota). There are also insane people ruled by insane leaders (but enough about the House Democratic Caucus). Sane people with sane rulers has not been fully tried yet.
Not only could regime change in Iraq work, but Iraq's countryside was susceptible to America's overwhelming air power. Also, Iraq has fabulous natural resources. Once the U.S. got control of Iraq's oil fields, the Shia, Sunni and Kurds could decide to either prosper together or starve together. (And it's not just oil: They're basically sitting on top of most of the world's proven reserves of cab drivers.)
By contrast, there aren't a lot of sticks that can be used in a wasteland like Afghanistan, where the people live in caves and scratch out a living in the dirt. The only "carrot" we might be able to offer them would be actual carrots.
But Democrats couldn't care less about military strategy -- at least any "strategy" that doesn't involve allowing soldiers to date one another. To the extent you can get liberals to focus on national security at all, you will find they are rooting against their own country.
Read more at AnnCoulter.Com
Now nearly all denizens of the Middle East want the U.S. to invade them, so they can live in democracy, too. As Thomas Friedman inadvertently admitted, Lebanese voters credit their recent free election, in which the voters threw out Hezbollah, to President Bush. (American liberals, naturally, gave the credit to Obama, who they also believe is responsible for the sun rising every morning.)Read the rest at AnnCoulter.Com
Gee! Ann, what’s this you’re say?
I guess I am feeling too “cranky” to pay attention to you.
It was Obama's meaningless blather about Afghanistan being a "war of necessity" during the campaign that has moved the central front in the war on terrorism from Iraq -- a good battleground for the U.S. -- to Afghanistan -- a lousy battlefront for the U.S.Obama wee wee'd out on this one.
Damn, is she good!
"...It's always something with the Muslims."Multiple target" ZING!You either have mostly sane people governed by a crazy dictator -- Iraq, Iran and Syria (also California and Michigan) --
or a crazy people governed by relatively sane leaders -- Pakistan and Afghanistan, post-U.S. invasion (also Vermont and Minnesota)." - Ann Coulter
LOL yup she nailed it!
I guess I am feeling too "cranky" to pay attention to you.C'mon, wintertime!
Ann is obviously TRYING to extend the olive branch to the "Show us your Birth Certificate" crowd.The title of her column this week has "Natural Born" in it!
Get it, NATURAL BORN -- as in Natural Born CITIZEN!It looks like Ann wants to "move on" (as it were) beyond our past differences. :o)
Truce?
"...What Obama really needs to do is: Invent a time machine,It's been done.go back to the 2008 presidential campaign and not say, over and over and over again, thatAfghanistan was a 'war of necessity' while the war in Iraq was a 'war of choice.'" - Ann Coulter
From www.timetravelreviews.com:
Natural Born Losers?
Is Ann coming to a different conclusion and using the title as a method of inference about the credibility of Barry O.’s Certificate?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2361028/posts?page=8#8
Obama’s eligibility has revealed the true slimy and cowardly character of our loud mouthed, so-called, conservative talk show hosts and commentators.
Rush, Beck, Hannity, OReilly, Coulter, Boortz, Medved, Malkin, the entire Fox News stable of beauties, et. al. ...Weenie pond scum! All of them!
When tyranny comes these so-call conservative talk show cowards will **eagerly** lick the boots of the oligarchs and spit shine tyranny and oppress their fellow Americans with their smooth tongued propaganda.
Some issues are deal breakers. Some issues peel the veneer off the rot. Obama’s eligibility is one of those issues. I now know how deep Rush's (and the rest of the yapping weenies’) commitment is to the Constitution.
May God bless Rev. Manning. May God save our nation and raise up more brave and true men like him who will defend our Constitution.
The baby is gasping for air.
You gonna save it?
You missed the best of the targets...
“You either have mostly sane people governed by a crazy dictator — Iraq, Iran and Syria (also California and Michigan)”
Being in MI, she sure hit home!
The quote in Number 8
Was good
No it was GRATE!
What Obama really needs to do is: Invent a time machine, go back to the 2008 presidential campaign and not say, over and over and over again, that Afghanistan was a "war of necessity" while the war in Iraq was a "war of choice." (Oh, and as long as you're back there, ditch Van Jones, Valerie Jarrett and that gay "school safety" czar.) ...President Bush picked Iraq for a reason. Neither Iraq nor Afghanistan attacked us on 9/11 -- or the dozen other times American embassies, barracks and buildings came under jihadist onslaught since Jimmy Carter presided over "regime change" in Iran in 1979. Both countries -- and others -- gave succor to terrorists who had attacked the U.S. repeatedly, and would do so again... It's always something with the Muslims. You either have mostly sane people governed by a crazy dictator -- Iraq, Iran and Syria (also California and Michigan) -- or a crazy people governed by relatively sane leaders -- Pakistan and Afghanistan, post-U.S. invasion (also Vermont and Minnesota). There are also insane people ruled by insane leaders (but enough about the House Democratic Caucus). Sane people with sane rulers has not been fully tried yet... there aren't a lot of sticks that can be used in a wasteland like Afghanistan, where the people live in caves and scratch out a living in the dirt. The only "carrot" we might be able to offer them would be actual carrots.
Is Ann coming to a different conclusion and using the title as a method of inference about the credibility of Barry O.’s Certificate?Either that, or she just got tired of using the "LIBERAL LIES" meme in her column titles.
Thank God!From Orange_you_glad_I_didn't_say_banana:
Knock, knock!
Who's there?
Banana!
Banana who?Knock, knock!
Who's there?
Banana!
Banana who?Knock, knock!
Who's there?
Banana!
Banana who?Knock, knock!
Who's there?
Orange!
Orange who?Orange you glad that I didn't say LIBERAL LIES ABOUT NATIONAL HEALTH CARE?
No offense Ann, but a lot of people weren't clicking on Syncro's NEW threads about your columns, because they thought (from the similar TITLE) that it was still an OLD thread -- with the same name, IMHO.
Rev. Manning can save nothing.
Rush, Beck and Levin are at least educating the populace so the clowns can be voted out. Obama has sealed all his records. There is no way to force O to prove he is a citizen. NO WAY. Anyone can demand but all he has to do is say no. See what is happening with Orly. Do you think that anyone of the MSM will push the issue?
Levin’s Landmark Legal foundation is fighting Cap and Trade legally. Rush is pushing the limits and Beck is reaching so many people, the regime is not laughing (I watch him on TikiLive. His numbers there have gone from the hundreds to the thousands) We can’t win by trying to prove Barry is not eligible. But we can do what we can.
Great article!
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