Posted on 03/24/2011 7:18:11 AM PDT by Strategy
The United States has started the deployment of more than 4,000 marines and sailors to the Mediterranean Sea to support the ongoing military operation in Libya, the U.S. Navy news service said.
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This guy is utterly clueless and got dragged into this by the Europeans. Daffy has been an ally of his mentor Wright and odds are put money into electing the little dweeb. He beat around the Bush until the French (for God’s sade) stepped up and took action. They still haven’t decided exactly what they want from all this.
Rush has been on fire with this folly. Hilarious, brutally truthful and right on target his damn gold and even the NFL have been totally on the back burner.
BTW my elder boy left the Navy a year ago. He was a nuke on the USS Ohio.
” I wish for a military coup in the USA. “
roger that
The lower echelons and true combat leaders have the balls
but the career oriented brass and JAG types at the top will never think of such a thing
I doubt this is an invasion force. Remember Haiti? Obama’s expecting Kadaffy to surrender quietly so that he can send a handful of troops in to do nation building.
Russian news source? Anyone else confirming it?
Where have I seen this before ... ?
We send in “military advisors” but no “combat” troops, so no problem. Then we increase the number of “military advisors” substantially. Eventually we can’t hide the fact that we’ve got a substantial armed force “in country” ready to handle any contingency including ... whoops ... combat.
Gulf of Tonkin ... Gulf of Sidra ... sure sounds familiar.
This is madness!! WHAT ARE WE DOING?????????
God be with your brother.
One of my x soccer players just got back for the 3rd time. Said, no more smoking, I'm outta here. Will collect $36,000 for two years on the GI bill for golf school.
“What’s getting short-changed?”
Everything. Next we will have to start sending Boy Scouts.
WHAT ARE WE DOING?????????”
we are all suffering from letting rampant voter fraud carry the last Presidential election ,without resistance or much complaint . We also chose the wrong guy last time and got no help from the outgoing Admin .
We are suffering from the higher levels of the Mil being penetrated and now controlled by politically motivated career oriented types that are willing to just go along with whatever the suits are fumbling around with .
Notice how many hard core combat leaders are retiring .
There’s a reason for that , to our great detriment.
We laid down for what the evil Libs and progressives
successfully foisted on us . We have not challenged the fact that an insane mastermind financial wizard is behind much of what is going on . We just let them all get away with it .
Instead of serious push-back, we are relying on masses of disgruntled Tea Partiers , many of whom are octogenarians. What happened to the supposed militias ?
Granted , it’s a mess .
RC2 wrote:”They know that our most valuable natural resource is our kids and will continue sending them to war. We keep pumping them out and they keep killing them.......and for what? A bunch of sand bunnys.”
I agree with what you say. However, in this instance, there is no “they”. We, the American people, nor our duly elected representatives in Congress have been consulted about any of this. Our so-called Commander and Chief has sent our military into harm’s way without even the respect to do it from our own soil, or to postpone his festivities on a foreign vacation. The manner in which he has done this proves that he has no respect for or value on our soldier’s lives. And now, it appears that he will hand them over to a foreign nation to command and direct into battle for causes that are clear to nobody except, possibly, to Obama himself.
Obama will also expect us to believe that he is doing this to “save” Libyan lives by destroying Libyan lives, while strengthening an opposition force that none of us have any idea what to name.
Obama has all the emotion and empathy of a reptile. God help us and guard our troops! They are being sent off like stepchildren by an uncaring step-parent, which indeed he is. He can’t protect us in the border states with Mexico from the drug cartels and criminal aliens but he can spend millions of dollars to bomb a sovereign nation on behalf of other countries. His actions are inexcusable!
what's that old joke about French tanks...equipped with a six speed transmission...one forward gear and six in reverse...
France has lost a lot more lives in war than the US has since our undependence; one group was killed in Afghanistan defending an American base under attack. The US would never fight a war as the French did in WWI, losing 1.7 million men; that is more than we’ve lost in all of our wars combined.
I prefer the ARVN rifle - “never fired, only dropped once”.
In fairness to the ARVN, they lost a LOT of people in that war, and were treated like sh!t after the South fell in ‘75. They never overcame the morale problems of serving a succession of corrupt governments.
Obama lied....
Getting ready for a reprise of Blackhawk Down?
Not to worry. We still don’t have an appropriations bill, so all the supplies we are using don’t have any permanent acquisition mechanism to resupply old stocks being consumed.
Budgets will be swung to meet higher priority demands, but when it comes back to balancing the budget, which has a higher priority from UN guidance?
Here are some early 21st century ‘buzzwords’ recently used to summarize Obama’s meetings in Brazil:
“They agreed on the importance of a green economy in the context of sustainable development as a means for generating economic growth, creating decent jobs, eradicating poverty and protecting the environment. In this sense, they agreed to initiate a dialogue on a joint initiative on urban sustainability cooperation which will serve as a platform for actions addressing the challenges and opportunities of developing urban infrastructure that promotes sustainable development with concrete economic, social and environmental benefits.”
This statement manifests the thinking of this Administration. When the numbers don’t support their desires, they will work to change the management of the numbers such that 50 will control the resources of 5000, focusing only on the 50 and ignoring the other 4950.
If they leave the military budget relatively untouched due to operational tempo, I suspect they will migrate their social programs of environmental regulation, eradication of poverty, and economic growth more into the military, promoting equality while diminishing freedom, and will become even more proud than they arrogantly manifest today.
Such a program is, in their eyes, a moderate position. Those to their extreme left consider the eradication of poverty and developing sustainable urban infrastructure concurrent with wilderness programs, will imply the formation of ghettos for those who do not comply with their edicts and execution of their elimination. If they can corner all capitalists into concentrated areas, take their resources, then slaughter them, they will have eradicated poverty from their perspective.
Who is today's Lafayette or George Washington? (or Churchill or Thatcher?)
Unfortunately neither of our countries is ruled by people of the caliber of the past, and it seems the character of the nation that made such sacrifices in the past is also slipping away or being diluted in a different, lesser genetic pool
And also each county must battle unfortunate stereotypes, which may have some basis in fact. America as cowboys, and France as effete cheese sniffers who don't play well with others
Back in 2008 a coworker told me not to vote Republican because McCain is another George Bush and we will be bogged down in war for years.
Was he ever a genius! I voted for McCain against his advice and look what is happening.
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