Category: National Security

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The Fix Is In

What a sad, sad nation we become when the questions asked and the answers given are designed to conceal rather than reveal. There is so much propaganda embedded this clip it boggles the mind.

Let your eyes settle on the big red banner across the bottom of the clip. We didn’t respond. When we tell’ Iran not to attack Israel and then they do so anyway, the reporter calls it a win for the President because Israel has not (yet) responded. BTW, when they say that Israel has not ‘responded’ they purposely confuse the meaning of that word with the actions taken by the US (the word ‘response’ in the red banner). If they mean the the US is responding by using words (as the banner implies) then why are Israel’s words not a response as well?

When Iran attacks Israel and the question presented to the administrations slime-ball mouthpiece is about containing Israel (viewed as a win for the admin) rather than not being able to contain an Iranian attack on our ‘ally’ (viewed as a failure for the admin), you know the fix is in. The first question asked is how effective the President has been on dissuading Israel from attacking Iran. It should have been why was the President so ineffective at dissuading Iran from attacking Israel.

The idea that the US has sent a message to the world and strengthened security in the region by our actions (beginning at the 1:18 mark) is an obvious falling away of reality. But then again, your reality is not for you to form on your own.: the US government insists on participating in that endeavor.

With rare exception every time I hear a politician, or their mouthpiece (including their many mouthpieces in the press), use the word ‘bipartisan’ I know that we are being fed a line of crap. Kirby begins using it at about the 3 minute mark.

Up is down, right is wrong, the sky is green, and your an unpatriotic American if you don’t support this administrations balls-to-the-wall run at destroying the nation and setting fire to the world.

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Conditioning

The news release by Iran (via tweet) (far below) is designed to stop whatever response the west was going to exhibit. A rational person would give a sigh of relief and say ‘thank God that this did not escalate’.

And then it will happen again, a few more missiles than last time, and then stop. . . no big deal. Then again. And then soon Israel being directly attacked by Iran will become the new normal.

We are being ‘conditioned’ to accept Iran’s direct action against our allies.

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A Weakening Resolve

I’ve heard it said that the signs of a weakened nation include paradigms where their enemies no longer fear them and their ‘friends’ no longer trust them. It took a while, but we may have finally arrived. Rather than lament the fall of America, I’m going to spend a few moments in quiet contemplation over the ills that have befallen our friend and ally Israel.

Today Israel pulled its negotiators out of hostage talks after Hamas, encouraged by a UN Security Council resolution that calls for an unconditional ceasefire, toughened up its demands during negotiations. The US could have stopped the resolution but elected to roll over and toss this ally to the wolves.

Netanyahu canceled a meeting that the White House had sought with his advisers. He did release a statement however. It reads in part: Israel will not address Hamas’s delusional demands. Israel will pursue and achieve its just war objectives: Destroying Hamas’s military and governmental capacities, release of all the hostages, and ensuring Gaza will not pose a threat to the people of Israel in the future.

The future has just become that much more uncertain.

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Thinking Backward | Flawed Logic

I heard General Keane on Fox this morning trying to school the Trumpster on the error of his ways. Seems that Trump is going to bring home the folk in Afghanistan by Christmas. Keane kept touting a ‘conditions based withdrawal’. He said that the leverage we have over the Taliban goes away with a unilateral withdrawal. He kept saying that we would not be able to get them to agree to several things that we want if we withdraw.

Here is some late breaking news. When you adhere to a ‘conditions based withdrawal’ scheme it gives the Taliban the ability to control your actions (not the other way around). In other words they would now control when we left because they controlled the conditions. Because they are the aggressors, it also puts them in the position of deciding where/when we had to fight and at what level of intensity. Finally, because we were dumping truck-loads of cash into the country they became more interested in keeping us in the country and collecting the cash than in ending the violence.

I can’t believe that our senior military leaders are so friggin stupid. But then again, they make their bucks by fighting wars not bringing peace.

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They’ve Got My Dander Up

More than 200 retired generals and admirals endorsed Joe Biden for president in a letter published Thursday, saying he had the character and judgment to serve as commander-in-chief instead of President Donald Trump, who has failed “to meet challenges large or small.”

I’ve only a couple of questions for this august group:

  1. Where were your holier than thou politically tainted mouths when Benghazi went down. Not a fuckin peep from you or your high station. You could not have cared less about those hero’s on the roof top. You hid behind your stars and bars and said absolutely nothing in order to preserve or advance your career. Friggin cowards
  2. With wars blazing in the Middle East for almost your entire career the only advice you offered was to throw more troops and more arms into that sand lot. What the hell, it wasn’t your life on the line and the best way to ensure advancement was to be on the war bandwagon.
  3. When Obuthole slashed defense spending and hollowed out the military; weakened our nation while our enemies armed up, where was your outrage? Not a sound.

So now you feel it your duty to stab at the back of man who is guiding the nation to recovering from the mess you’ve left. Kiss my ass. And, oh by the way, don’t invoke McCain, Americans can see for themselves what a useless weasel of a man he was.