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Today is the anniversary of a date that will live in infamy…

Posted: December 7, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news, war
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…but enough about the birth of my older brother.

It is also happens to be Pearl Harbor day and there are still a few fellows who have unpleasant memories of the day:

Dabrowski is one of more than 15 Pearl Harbor survivors known to be living in the Rochester area. Some share a strong conviction that this date has a lesson of great relevance today — that a nation must be ever vigilant — and that the carnage of Dec. 7 in Hawaii is an unsettling reminder of the horrors of war.

Dabrowski was stationed on one of the battleships — the USS Maryland, which was hit by bombs but ready for a return to service in less than three months.

Now 92, Dabrowski’s recollection of the past has faded somewhat with time. But the shock of seeing 181 Japanese fighters and dive bombers fill the skies remains a haunting memory.

This began America’s official entry into World War II. My father, my father in law and most of my male relatives of his age fought in that war.

It was a war that we were unofficially aiding the allies before the first bomb dropped, a war where we had as one ally a government that was not only corrupt but even more murderous than the Nazi’s and a war that changed both the Germans and the Japanese who 65 years later STILL have American Troops on their shores.

How would the history of the last six decades be different if the same debates over the war and the same “morality” that those who are in a rush to leave where we are fighting now where in power back then?

Would Germany and Japan have re-armed and looked for revenge? Would there have been a 3rd world war with actual fighting rather than the cold version we fought?

There is a cost to American dominance and sometimes it’s annoying, but there is also a serious benefit that people forget. If we decide as a nation we will no longer pay it, we will enjoy both the savings and the costs of that decision.

I didn’t see the president’s speech because I was gaming last night…

Posted: December 2, 2009 by datechguy in Afghanistan war, war
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…but other than Chris Matthews saying publicly how some on the left consider the troops and West Point I don’t have a big issue here.

I don’t care if he gave a good speech, I don’t care about the politics of it all that much.

All I care about is the commanders are going to get the troops we need to win. It would be nice if he talked about victory but I’m much more interested if he actually MANAGES victory.

Eyes on the prize, he is a radical left wing president, domestically he is going to push a left wing agenda but his primary job is as commander in chief during wartime is to win the war and protect us from attack.

If he does that on balance this will be a successful presidency. A victory in Afghanistan is more important than a victory in 2010 or 2012.

There are plenty of reasons to oppose this president, but if we win, then the war won’t be one of them, and that’s good for America.

Sarah Palin has it exactly right:

As long as we’re in to win, and as long as troop level decisions are based on conditions on the ground and the advice of our military commanders, I support President Obama’s decision.

Eyes on the prize. If you can’t tell the difference between a political enemy and the real enemy you have to get your priorities straight.

Update: John McCain doesn’t like the timeline, neither do I, but not to worry; just remember the immortal words of Jim Gerathey at NRO’s the Campaign Spot:

All Barack Obama Statements Come With an Expiration Date. All Of Them.

That timeline is going to go the way of the Dodo.

Jodie Evans the successor to Jane Fonda

Posted: November 18, 2009 by datechguy in internet/free speech, war
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Seriously you can’t make stuff like this up:

Top Obama donor and fundraiser Jodie Evans met with the Taliban in Afghanistan on a recent trip there, according to a report by Jane Fonda of a discussion she had with Evans last month. The meeting with the Taliban took place just weeks before Evans was videotaped directly handing to President Barack Obama a package of information about her trip to Afghanistan at a high dollar fundraiser in San Francisco.

Let’s quote Fonda directly:

I sat next to Jodie who told me a little about her recent trip to Afghanistan with an American delegation that included a retired colonel, and member the State Department. While there, she met with people ranging from the brother of President Karzai, Afghan members of Parliament, activists, to warlords and members of the Taliban. Jodie is co-founder of the peace organization, Code Pink, and always willing to go to any lengths to try and find out what’s really going on.

Gee meeting with our enemies when we are at war with them. It looks like Jane hasn’t changed all that much in 40 years. I guess this is the new Vietnam after all.

The fact that I am seeing this just before going to a meeting concerning the eleven-eleven campaign breaks the irony meter and turns my stomach. Our failure to arrest Fonda for Treason 40 years ago is still paying dividends.

Just remember Evans is part of the Obama fund raising crew. Would she get away with it under President McCain?

Never forget we did this to ourselves and as always we get the government we deserve.

Update: Just to clarify my eleven-eleven meetings are all with local people about getting involved, they are not “national meetings” after all I’m just an unemployed tech guy.

Update 2: Gateway had this yesterday and I didn’t see it. Apparently neither did the MSM. (shock!)

Update 3: The president now says he’s restored America’s standing, are we standing up or bowing down. Combined with this I’m in danger or a going Kryten moment. Is Legal Insurrection right that this is his “Mission Accomplished” moment?

Update 4: Finally found an embeddable clip:

Oh joy let try Kalied Sheikh Mohammed in New York

Posted: November 13, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news, war
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Morning Joe is reporting that the Attorney General is reporting that the 9/11 mastermind is going to be moved to NYC and tried in a civilian court.

Lets forgetting that discovery is going to really hurt intelligence and compromise agents and tactics this is going to have an incredible effect on the battlefield.

Terrorists taken on the battlefield will of course assume and demand lawyers. People who are not even entitled to Geneva protections will get the protections of US law and the best lawyers that our liberal friends will can provide, and trust me they will proudly provide them.

There is a message to our troops, kill them, kill them all and don’t bother to take them alive because you might end up being deposed. If I’m a commander in the field I take the gloves off, I don’t worry about taking anybody alive, I don’t risk my troops for anything now, and I just hit hard, with any weapon I am allowed. If there are non-combatants in the area I don’t worry about it.

This is a policy that is going to cost American lives and the decision of this administration is one they should be ashamed of, if it had any shame.

I guess the decision to do this right after Ft. Hood is the hope of burying all the bad news at once. I guess they decided that the Ft. Hood attack wasn’t a big enough win for Al-Qaeda so they decided to give them another one.

Update: At the News conference he ducks the question. He is a disgrace to this office.

Never forget people, we as a nation did this to ourselves, it is our fault and we will pay for this in blood.

Update 2: Memeorandum doesn’t have it yet, somebody besides me must be writing about it somewhere.

Update 3: It’s up there now.

Update 4: Hotair brings up a good point:

What do we get from having the 9/11 plotters tried in criminal court in New York City? Well, we get to have the city painted as a big, bright target for terrorist action during the entirety of the trial. Thanks to press coverage, which should be an order of magnitude more obsessive than the OJ Simpson trial in LA fourteen years ago, jihadists will come out of the woodwork to make a big international splash, or more likely a boom. We also give KSM and his cohorts a big, juicy media platform for their bile. That was one of their motivations for conducting the attack in the first place, and we finally get to deliver it to them.

I wonder if we will also get a Lynne Stewart ready to pass on info to his friends on the other side. Actually she is out now isn’t she, or if not will be by the time of the trial, she can work for the defense team.

Glenn used to use the phrase, “they’re not anti war they are just on the other side.“. Will we see it return with an interesting twist in the near future?

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