Then again logically he is a more valuable commodity alive than dead thus is it important for them to prove life. After all we now know such proof was worth the release of 20 terrorists.
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There are times when being wrong…
Posted: October 2, 2009 by datechguy in warTags: Gilad Shalit, Israel, War on Terror
Hey Chuck now that Yon has an interview on hot air…
Posted: September 30, 2009 by datechguy in internet/free speech, opinion/news, warTags: afghanistan, charles johnson, lgf, lgf jumps the shark, michael yon, War on Terror
…are you going to attack him for “associating” with people who have “racist friends?”
Just asking ya know.
Update: Snark on Charles not withstanding; anything Yon says is worth listening to.
Some memories from Jan 20th on Afghanistan
Posted: September 29, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news, warTags: afghanistan, history, just deserts, obama, reality, War on Terror
From a post on Jan 20th:
I remember Glenn Reynolds saying that the best part of the Democrats taking power is they will suddenly be willing to support the war on terror. Lets hope he is right.
I guess this was wrong as we see the cut and run left of the Bush administration suddenly deciding that Afghanistan is no longer the “good war”.
We are seeing posts like this:
No problem! The policy makers will find some way to get them there. Why at all send them to Afghanistan to die, why not recreate some ops. in mid-Manhattan and send them to their grave Mr. McChrystal? Or would that not be considered as dying for honor?
The title of that post was Wanted 40,000 more to die in Afghanistan is itself dishonest, but I don’t expect better.
It’s is just a bunch of Neo-cons:
Ignoring the overwhelming Democratic-voter opposition to the Afghanistan war threatens to cost Barack Obama the support of young people and anti-war voters who helped make him president. It could destroy any possibility of achieving his robust domestic agenda as well. President Obama needs an exit strategy instead of an escalation strategy.
It’s a graveyard I tell you:
From the time of Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan to the British, Soviets and now the US and NATO, Afghanistan’s poppy fields, barren plains and rugged mountains are filled with the ghosts and treasuries of would-be conquerors. Sooner or later, America, Canada and NATO will meet the same dismal fate as everyone who went before them.
On Morning Joe they are united in calling it Vietnam.
And of course there is Newsweek:
One of history’s enduring lessons is that Afghans don’t appreciate it when outsiders tell them how to govern their affairs—just ask the British or the Soviets. U.S. success in overthrowing the Taliban seemed to suggest this lesson no longer applied, at least to Americans. That quickly proved an illusion.
I remember when liberal blogs were even insulted by the suggestion that they advocated withdrawal:
Yesterday on The O’Reilly Factor, former administration official Dan Senor told guest host John Kasich that “many leftist centered activists, political activists” — such as MoveOn.org — believe “we would be better off” if the United States withdrew from Afghanistan.
But when pressed by Kasich, Senor couldn’t name any progressives who have advocated pulling out from Afghanistan and admitted that MoveOn.org has called for withdrawal from Iraq, not Afghanistan.
Doesn’t anyone remember what democrats were saying just one year ago?
Al Qaeda in Afghanistan:
Obama on Afghanistan
During the Debates:
Ya think we (as in the country) might have bought a candidate and a party that might not have meant what they said?
We always get the government we deserve
Ah Clinton Military Nostalgia…
Posted: September 22, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news, warTags: clinton, history, obama, reality, still angry left, War on Terror
The wonderful memories:
September 2007
But Clinton not only couldn’t bring herself to criticize it, she also attacked Petraeus’ honesty: “The reports that you provide to us really require the willing suspension of disbelief,” she huffed to the general Tuesday.
And she slammed him (and Ambassador Ryan Crocker) as “de facto spokesmen for a failed policy,” pointedly refusing to criticize the ad – which called him an outright liar who’d “betray” his nation.
Sept 2009:
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pushed back against the US military’s blunt warning that the battle against insurgents in Afghanistan would likely be lost within a year without more US troops.
Clinton’s comments in an interview with PBS television late Monday came amid reports that the Pentagon has asked General Stanley McChrystal, the top commander in Afghanistan, to delay a request for more troops.
Clinton expressed “respect” for McChrystal’s assessment that the United States would likely lose the war in Afghanistan within a year without more US forces.
“But I can only tell you there are other assessments from very expert military analysts who have worked in counter-insurgencies that are the exact opposite,”
Well at least she said it with a bit less venom.
Let’s hope this president gives Mrs. Clinton opinion the same weight that it was given the last time.
What is this thing with generals? Next thing you know she will be going after General Hospital.
The real sad thing is the politics of it all:
There’s this anonymous quote from one observer: “He can send more troops and it will be a disaster and he will destroy the Democratic party. Or he can send no more troops and it will be a disaster and the Republicans will say he lost the war.” Isn’t this extraordinary? Obama will roil the Democratic party by sending more troops to fight the war that Democrats have said for years is the “necessary war” (in Obama’s words), the central war in the fight against terror, etc., etc. It’s hard to imagine a starker demonstration of bad faith on an important issue of national security.
No sign of the idea of WINNING the “formerly necessary war“! Maybe they didn’t mean it. It was so bad like that on Morning Joe where they were saying the problem was the people stuck on the idea of winning I had to change the channel.
That’s liberals for you. Pass Obamacare and put the cost on our children and grandchildren, Concede defeat and pass the danger and the risks on to our children and grandchildren.
It is for this reason more than any other that Glenn Beck is all wet when it comes to McCain v Obama. He might have been poor on domestic issues but he damn well wouldn’t sell out the country when it comes to the war. We wouldn’t have to worry about defense being ignored period.
2010 & 2012 can’t come soon enough for me.
Update: I’ll wager Baldilocks would have given anything to not be able to take this victory lap
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