Obama was going to avoid being another George Bush. He has succeeded.
Obama has made no effort to hide his antipathy to open-ended engagements in the Middle East, despite potent but limited campaigns against Al-Qaeda in Pakistan and in Libya.
Well he got us out of Iraq. And thereby opened the gates of hell.
There were actually some of us who knew this was very likely back in 2008 and we voted for Palin. With the side benefit of getting McCain. But the American people were tired of war. Evidently war is not tired of us.
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Fortunately, we don’t have a strategy that will fail.
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Well we actually don’t have a strategy. So technically you are correct.
What has happened is that the WW2 generation is gone and those lessons are being relearned by the usual methods.
The solution and strategy to finish off radical Islam is outlined by Angelo Codevilla in a Federalist article linked by Bill Quick. It’s basically the same solution Scipio used to annihilate Carthage.
http://www.dailypundit.com/?p=90893
“…benefit of getting McCain”
That phrase makes no sense in any context or language. Hell even if you appended “..in trade for a leaky douchebag” I wouldn’t consider it sensible.
Frank,
Thanks for that.
Gandi and dr. king are more dangerous then hitler? Man that must be some heavy stuff your smoking!
captain,
Try being a peacenik in an outlaw MC gang.
[…] Frank left a link to Bill Quick who had a link to Angelo […]
“What has happened is that the WW2 generation is gone and those lessons are being relearned by the usual methods.”
I keep in mind the the G.I. generation manned World War II. The World War I generation commanded it to victory–limited as that was, leaving half of Europe and most of China to the communists. When the World War II generation got the command, we got the Vietnam War.
They also sired and raised my generation of aptly named Baby Boomers, who have been, on the whole, bad for the nation.
The G.I. Generation was a very mixed bag. Their achievements can be attributed to their being born closer to the American Republic of individual liberty and limited government; the failure of their legacy to their having bought the Faustian bargain of the New Deal.
They were saner than most of my contemporaries. I really miss them.
You want Sanity? Hang with engineers.
Let’s not get carried away. Plenty of engineers are authoritarian statists in political philosophy, more took the money to establish the technical underpinnings of the National Security State, and few have the humanistic education to actually understand people and respect their rights. Other than that–sane, sane, sane.
The exceptions to my generalizations are, as always, excepted.
Brett,
Point acknowledged. Engineers are about 1/2 sane (as a group) as opposed to the general population (5% to 10% – maybe).