Wormtongue isn’t really fighting ISIS, according to a retired Air Force general who ought to know. Even I can see that twelve airstrikes a day is piddlin’.
Not that you would expect more from the Great Divider. He only talks tough. And even then he’s usually lyin’.
Via PowerLine.
Posted in Blogosphere, Iraq, The War
No, not the one about keeping your doctor or your health insurance, blatant as those lies were. Rather, Our Little Barry’s decision to use Vietnam as a model and turn the presidential back on Iraq.
“President Obama’s 2011 abandonment of Iraq was a betrayal of America’s promises to millions of Iraqi men, women and children. The ISIS victories, and the horrors that follow them, are a direct result of that betrayal. As Ismail said to me: ‘They shouldn’t leave us like that.’”
It’s not just you, Ismail. It’s American soldiers who get left as well.
Via Instapundit.
Here richly, with ridiculous display,
The Politician’s corpse was laid away.
While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged
I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.
— Hilaire Belloc’s “Epitaph on the Politician.”
You can imagine who I’d like to see here. But you’ll have to imagine. I’m not going to sic the feds on myself.
UPDATE: Clarence Darrow was more circumspect: “I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”
Posted in Iraq, Obamalot, Obituaries, The War, Troops
Tagged Clarence Darrow, Epitaph On A Politician, Hilaire Belloc, Losing Iraq, Obamalot
This year we have the sad duty to observe Memorial Day in remembrance of two generations of American soldiers whose lives were thrown away on distant battlefields by American politicians: In Viet Nam and Iraq.
As Richard Fernandez explains: “The collapse in the Middle East feels like Black April, 1975, the month South Vietnam fell. And it should, because just as the collapse of Saigon did not happen in Black April, but in a political American decision to allow South Vietnam to fall after a ‘decent interval’, so also is the ongoing collapse rooted, not in the recent tactical mistakes of the White House, but in the grand strategic decision president Obama made when he assumed office…”
Militarily, the good old USA is not what it was and may never be again. Nobody, certainly not in the Middle East, trusts us anymore. Nor should they. Today, only about one half of 1 percent of the American population serves. Soldiers have no political clout whatsoever.
Indeed, joining the micro-managed, all-PC American military today—for any reason other than to repel a direct attack on the homeland—really isn’t advisable. It’s just slow-motion suicide. Deployment, perhaps, to the latest short-lived “commitment.” Some civilian flag-waving back home for a minute or two and then…forgotten.
Via ChicagoBoyz & Belmont Club.
UPDATE: Kept hearing Happy Memorial Day Weekend, a civilian salutation bespeaking bar-b-ques and whatnot. Memorial Day really is about dead soldiers. So it’s like hearing Happy Dead Soldiers day. Disgusting.
Posted in Iraq, Obamalot, The War, Troops, Viet Nam
Tagged Forgotten American soldiers, Iraq, Islamic Fascism, Viet Nam
Even when American presidents do
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Posted in Iraq, Obamalot, The Culture, The War, Troops
We’ve had troops in Germany since 1945. Troops in South Korea for sixty years. But the Democrats and their incompetent man-boy leader Little Barry couldn’t wait to cut-and-run from Iraq. They created the vacuum that gave rise to ISIS which has now taken back Mosul and Ramadi.
“The defeat is a major setback for the Iraqi government, which ordered a retreat to prevent a massacre of surrendering soldiers and their local tribal allies. If Iraqi forces can’t hold Ramadi, they are a long way from recapturing the city of Mosul, which has been under ISIS control for nearly a year.”
They’ll lose Baghdad next. Now all the families of the Americans who died capturing Ramadi will know what the families of dead Vietnam combat veterans felt when Saigon fell. How many more betrayals can American soldiers stand?
UPDATE: As Ramadi falls, our Little Barry goes golfing. He has his priorities.
Posted in Iraq, Obamalot, Viet Nam
Tagged betrayal of American soldiers, Ramadi falls, Saigon fell
I think it’s great all these Westerners winging off to Syria and Iraq to join ISIS. The boys will become cannon fodder for allied strike bombers and the girls will be sex slaves for the boys who are left.
It’s cool because it’s evolution in action, something you rarely see (except in finches). Nature is draining the swamp, the shallow end of the gene pool, and leaving things much nicer (and roomier) for the rest of us.
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