Category Archives: Iraq

Free world, you’re on your own

Posted on March 26, 2013 | Comments Off on Free world, you’re on your own

Mark Steyn has it pretty succinct, the reason why I will try to discourage Mr. B. from following his father, grandfathers, and other ancestors in joining the American military. It lately seems more interested in slotting women into the infantry and decrying the dangers of global warming than training and fighting to win wars.

“But there are ever fewer takers for a money-no-object global hegemon that spends 46 percent of the world’s military budget and can’t impress its will on a bunch of inbred goatherds.”

That would be a reference to Afghanistan, I presume. Fits Iraq as well and, if you go back far enough, those little Asian guys who regularly kicked our asses in Vietnam. Despite what you may have heard about the politicians losing it.

We do have a lot of generals and admirals, however, and their spiffy uniforms have chest candy that runs up and almost over their shoulders. With all sorts of other shiny doodads on their chests, and pockets, etc.

Other than that, we have a lot of crippled or dead men (including suicides) who believed Washington truly wanted to win this Global War on Terror thing. Only to find out W. wouldn’t fight it as hard as he could have and Barry wouldn’t fight it at all and not only withdrew (or is in process of retreating) but even sanitized the name. And will certainly leave Israel to its fate, along with the rest of the “free world.” Nope, not a good time to volunteer.

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The buck stops…elsewhere

Posted on March 17, 2013 | Comments Off on The buck stops…elsewhere

Via
Phase Line Birnam Wood

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Not a good time to be a soldier

Posted on February 13, 2013 | Comments Off on Not a good time to be a soldier

The soon-to-be-former defense secretary has decided that the military will get the smallest possible pay raise while King Putz has already submitted a fat hike for civilian federal employees.

As Darkwater so eloquently quotes from Kipling:

“God and the soldier we adore/In times of trouble, not before/When trouble’s gone and all things righted/God’s forgotten and the soldier slighted.”

Not that our unwise withdrawal from Iraq means “trouble’s gone” nor our impending skedaddle from Afghanistan, either. Both are starting to smell a lot like our defeat in Vietnam. To my old ‘Nammie’s nose, at any rate. Which brings to mind this other appropriate quote from Kipling:

“When you’re wounded out on Afghanistan’s plains/And the women come out to cut up what remains/Then just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains/And die like a good British soldier!”

Or an American one.

Meanwhile, back at Fort Hood, where 13 were killed and 32 others wounded in an obvious 2009 jihadi massacre, the civilian cops who stopped it have been laid off and are p.o.’ed that King Putz still insists that it was a case of  “workplace violence” with no politico-religious overtones.

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Muslim persecution of Christians

Posted on February 12, 2013 | Comments Off on Muslim persecution of Christians

“….the persecution of Christians in the Islamic world is on its way to reaching pandemic proportions...”

Strange how we never hear much about this in our snooze media, which always falls into deep slumber with a Democrat in the White House. Or, for that matter, from American Christian pulpits. Oh, they’d much rather talk about divesting from Israel.

A roundup of December killings, bombings and other blatant persecution (particularly back at Christmas) via Monkey In The Middle.

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Petraeus: A useful fool

Posted on November 19, 2012 | Comments Off on Petraeus: A useful fool

He went to Congress and repeated the lie about the nasty anti-Muslim video being the cause of the Benghazi attacks and murders. His usefulness done, he fell under the infidelity sword Barry’s AG had hanging over his head since before election day.

To at least one observer, retired Army Colonel Douglas MacGregor—a Desert Storm combat veteran whose caustic battle book Warrior’s Rage rants against careerist, non-combat generals like Petraeus—he had it coming.

“Petraeus is a remarkable piece of fiction created and promoted by neocons in government, the media and academia…Petraeus was always a useful fool in the Leninist sense for his political superiors….”

And when the fool was no longer useful, Barry exiled him in permanent shame. Now he seems to be telling a new story in Congressional hearings, setting Democrats and Republicans to arguing about what it means.

There’s a clue to the reason behind Gen. P.’s downfall in old photographs of him in uniform: the “chest candy” (once called “fruit salad” in a more modest epoch) that precedes his smile. He wears every ribbon for every paper-pusher medal he ever received as a staff officer and aide to generals, plus more shiny badges than even Colonel Qaddafi used to wear, if not as large. He did dispense with Daffy Duck’s sash. Who knows, in the egotistical, banana-republic style of today’s generals and admirals, he may have one.

Makes you think he wasn’t really very sure of himself, which may explain why he threw his marriage and his children to the winds for a fling with his nubile biographer. He may well have done it before but wasn’t caught.

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The horror ahead if Barry is re-elected

Posted on September 27, 2012 | Comments Off on The horror ahead if Barry is re-elected

Consider the damage President Obama already has done to the Middle East:

His removal of Egypt’s president Mubarak, Israel’s second best friend after Jordan’s monarchy which is now threatened by the Muslim Brotherhood;

His unackowledged complicity in the slaying of Libya’s Qaddafi who, for all his sins, was finally cooperating with the U.S.; and

His betrayal of the thousands of Americans who died or were crippled trying to bring democracy to Iraq, which promptly fell apart after our abrupt withdrawal and awaits Iran’s takeover.

Said Fouad Ajami of Stanford University after the murder of our Libya ambassador:  “Our foreign policy has been altered, as never before, to fit one man’s electoral needs. We hear from the presidential handlers only what they want us to believe about the temper of distant lands. It was only yesterday that our leader, we are told, had solved the riddle of our position in the world.”

Barack Hussein Obama has, in David Goldman’s words “done more to undermine America’s standing in the world than any president in history, and the consequences of his re-election are horrible to imagine.”

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Bring it on

Posted on September 19, 2012 | Comments Off on Bring it on

Spengler, at least, is ready and waiting for an Israeli bombing attack on Iran. He thinks regional war is inevitable and it might as well begin sooner than later in response to an Israeli attack.

Of course, he has the luxury of not sitting at ground zero. Or does he?

“An Israeli strike on Iran that achieved even limited success — a two-year delay in Iran’s nuclear weapons development — would arrest America’s precipitous decline as a superpower.”

I doubt the decline would continue if Obama is defeated in November. If he is re-elected, a two year delay wouldn’t be long enough. But regional war, Spengler (David P. Goldman) says, would resolve these looming problems:

  • A nuclear-armed Iran;
  • Iraq’s continued drift towards alliance with Iran;
  • An overtly hostile regime in Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood government will lean on jihadist elements to divert attention from the country’s economic collapse;
  • An Egyptian war with Libya for oil and with Sudan for water;
  • A radical Sunni regime controlling most of Syria, facing off an Iran-allied Alawistan ensconced in the coastal mountains;
  • A de facto or de jure Muslim Brotherhood takeover of the Kingdom of Jordan.

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    Rather daunting list there. Only problem I can see is that wars (and their results) are always unpredictable. The new arrangement could be worse.

    But neoconservatism, the moderate alternative between appeasement and war, certainly seems to be dead. Obama has tried appeasement and gotten a dead ambassador and trashed embassies. Being an ideologue, he may try more appeasement. But Spengler is right. War is inevitable.

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