Category Archives: Troops

Wagging the dog

Oh, good, another American war by presidential whim, another war we can’t possibly win, this time backing our own enemies.

The only possible explanation for this new catastrophe-in-the-making is that Wormtongue is wagging the dog, as the old movie title went, trying to divert attention from the scandals engulfing his administration.

UPDATE:  It will be amusing to see if congressional reassertion of its sole right to approve military force will have any effect on an administration already run amuck.

Our creepy president

Barry’s recent reactions to the multiple scandals of his administration are revealing the real man behind the passive “black” mask:

“It turns out that they have nothing to do with him: he has no idea what is going on in the Treasury Department, the Department of Justice, the State Department, the IRS, or, apparently, anywhere else, other than what he reads in the newspaper. He takes no responsibility…”

Not to mention his baldfaced lie (at the Defense University, of all places) that the Islamists are on the ropes and we can safely and immediately conclude the Bush war on terror. In fact, as Spengler rebuts:

“[W]e face tens of thousands–-perhaps millions–-of anonymous enemies armed with cheap weapons,  but advantaged by the element of surprise and the will to commit suicide in order to damage us. We have entered a new and terrible epoch of war–and the president has announced that the war is over.”

Of course President Pinocchio’s delusions are only surprising to those who have not been paying attention to the leader of the Choom Gang. His entire claim to fame all along has been race. How else could an opponent of bans on late-term abortions in the Illinois legislature have been elected U.S. senator and then president?

Otherwise, as Sultan Knish succinctly explains, Barry is no less than Grima Wormtongue:

“The man in the White House clawed his way to power by stabbing his mentor in the back, leaking the divorce records of his political opponents and throwing out the votes of Democrats in Florida and Michigan to claim the nomination. And he was just getting started.

“In the last election, Obama urged voters to punish our ‘enemies’. It was a window into the mindset of a man who moans and groans about partisan politics, but talks like Huey Long when he gets in front of the right audience.”

The Kingfish in black face, well, the tan man in “black” political cover. Our recipient of the politically-correct Nobel Peace Prize is anything but peaceful, just like his prize predecessor Yasser Arafat, the world’s then oldest terrorist. Although Arafat had the virtue of being open about it most of the time.

If the loyal Democrat stenographers of the snooze media hadn’t been diligently covering Barry’s sorry ass since 2008, his duplicity wouldn’t be keeping his polls up. He’d be as disgraced as he is disgraceful.

And then, briefly, his chief stenographer, the NYTimes, turned on him. Until Drudge used the line “has lost all credibility” in a headline and some NYTimes elves snuck in to their Web site and rewrote it to soften it. Still in the tank.

UPDATE:  More consequences of Wormtongue’s creepy lies

On Memorial Day

These seven men of 60th Company, OC 504-68, were killed in Viet Nam.

We graduates of that 1968 class at Infantry Officers Candidate School, Fort Benning, Georgia, commemorate the seven each Memorial Day.

One graduate:  1LT Jacob Lee Kinser, a Huey helicopter pilot.

Two Tactical Officers:  CPT Reese Michael Patrick and 1LT Daniel Lynn Neiswender, both infantry commanders.

Four class drop-outs:  SP4 Robert Chase,  SP4 Reese Currenti Elia Jr.CPL Sherry Joe Hadley, and PFC Jeffrey Sanders Tigner, all infantry riflemen.

Rest in peace.

Disrespected Jihadis

The Brit murderers made it absolutely plain they had run down the soldier and sawed his head off in the name of Islam. They even cited the Koran:

“There are ‘many, many ayat throughout the Koran,’ the man said [to the television cameras which, as usual, beat the armed police to the scene], citing the book’s ninth chapter, that encourage followers to ‘fight them as they fight us.'”

Likewise the surviving Boston bomber who wrote his own religious manifesto on the walls of the boat he was hiding in when he was found and arrested. It wasn’t quoted in full until recently. At the time it was briefly paraphrased and immediately subsumed in the official rush to censorship and the unbelievable pretense that the “reasons” for the murders were so, so obscure.

Try as they might, even yelling “Allahu Akbar” like the Brit slashers and the murderous major at Fort Hood, the Jihadis get no respect. Some of us complain about the official and media refusal to link these acts to the Islam that is the common thread joining these people.

Consider the disrespected Jihadis. They can’t cut through the PC malarky any better than we can.

Via Instapundit.

Has the day come?

A day may come when the courage of men fails,
when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day.
An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down,
but it is not this day!
This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth,
I bid you stand, Men of the West!
– Aragorn’s speech, before the Black Gates

With our feckless, lying president in full retreat from the Iranian and Islamist threats, it would seem the courage of Western men has failed.  Certainly with the London decapitation in full view of a crowd of Brit men— including unarmed and apparently cowardly cops– when only a woman had the cojones to confront the killers. While the cops watched from far enough away to be safe. Disgusting.

Via Sgt. Mom at Chicago Boyz

UPDATE:  OTOH, the authorities moved swiftly to punish a few Brits making connections between the Woolwich murder and Islam on Twitter and Facebook, while pretending to know nothing about such a connection.

Similar, as Richard Fernandez notes, to the WaPo pretending that the Muslim rioters in Sweden are merely “youths” protesting the “underprivilege” of the “foreign born.” The WaPo “knows what it means and we are supposed to know what it means but we are not supposed to admit that we know what it means.”

While Swedish police, using a “non-intervention policy” with the rioters,act to stop people defending their homes and vehicles.

Somolia’s 12th largest city: London

The near-beheading of the Brit soldier on a London street outside his base by apparent Somali Jihadis seems a little extreme until Sultan Knish informs you that the Brit government is rapidly turning  London into Somolia’s 12th (so far) largest city and providing lots of welfare checks for the new Muslim immigrants, some of which get sent home to the homegrown Jihadis.

“Multiculturalism has enriched the area with the Woolwich Manz, a Somali Muslim gang whose antics have led residents to fear walking the streets at night. The Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Social Inclusion and Justice Division informs us that there are thousands of Somalis in the borough, most of whom live in Woolwich Common and Woolwich Riverside.”

Of course British good guys aren’t allowed to carry weapons (like the cleavers and a rusty revolver the Jihadis had) much less firearms so all they could do was stand around and wait (and wait) for the coppers to arrive. Last I saw the coppers were still doing their paperwork. Paperwork is so much more important than policing in London these days. Mustn’t upset the Muslims.

UPDATE:  The throat slashing, BTW, is sanctioned by the Koran (“When you meet the unbelievers, smite their necks.”) and has become a common means of Islamic murder in the West.

MORE:  Mickey Kaus explains why murderous Muslims in the West are often on welfare. They are thus not assimilated and have little opportunity to be.

Lady Macbeth and her blood-soaked hands

Yeah the IRS thing is scary. But as Reason TV reports, the IRS has been used for political retribution by at least four other presidents, starting with Franklin Roosevelt. The rest were Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon. Three Democrats and one Republican.

If we had an honest federal government (you wish) we would not have an IRS in the first place nor a complicated annual income tax form with so many strokes and sticks. We’d have a flat tax for everyone. But that would eliminate a lot of jobs for the Democrats to fill and a favorite weapon against their political enemies as well as innumerable opportunities to shake down the lobby for more bribes.

Benghazi is far more important than the IRS scandal and not only because four Americans died. It demonstrates better than anything else how inept and venal the leader of the Choom Gang and his probable successor the Hildabeast are when it comes to foreign policy and genuine national security.

An American ambassador seems to have been used as an errand boy, to clean up Hellary’s mess: trying to buy back shoulder-fired Stinger anti-aircraft missiles she ordered given to Islamists fighting to overthrow Gaddafi after she realized (duh) they could be turned on civilian airliners.

Denying readily-available forces to protect the ambassador when he came under attack (and lying about it repeatedly afterwards) seems to have been done to avoid uncovering the missile operation. In other words, the ambassador (and two Navy SEALS) had to die to save Obozo’s dwindling credibility and Shillary’s political future.

Having political enemies audited is one thing. Turning your back on Americans under attack is Vietnam all over again. Or, more recently, Barry’s betrayal of our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

All we can do is hope that the otherwise-feckless Republicans don’t drop the ball on the Benghazi cover up. Or we’re very likely to get Lady Macbeth and her blood-soaked hands as the next occupant of the White House and much worse to come than selling guns to Mexican drug lords, harassment of the Tea Party and spying on the snooze media.

UPDATE: It’s been conventional wisdom for a long time that Nixon used the IRS on his enemies, but his biographers say he only tried to use the IRS. Being a hiring hall for the Democrat Party, the IRS refused to cooperate with a Republican president. Its retribution is for sale, certainly, but only for Democrats.