From Comedy to Farce

Victor Davis Hanson

"It was tragically comical that the commander in chief in just a few weeks could go from referring to ISIS as “jayvee” and a manageable problem to declaring it an existential threat, in the same manner he upgraded the Free Syrian Army from amateurs and a fantasy to our ground linchpin in the new air war. All that tragic comedy was a continuance of his previous untruths, such as the assurance that existing health plans and doctors would not change under the Affordable Care Act or that there was not a smidgeon of corruption at the IRS.

 

"But lately the Obama confusion has descended into the territory not of tragedy or even tragic comedy, but rather of outright farce." ....

A War For Show

Politico

 

"Compared with President Barack Obama, even Jimmy Carter is John McCain. The former president practically synonymous with American weakness and retreat thinks Obama was too slow to act against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and gives his current strategy only “a possibility of success,” provided it involves (unspecified) ground troops.

"When you are too passive for Jimmy Carter, it’s time for some soul-searching in the Situation Room. The late-1970s are calling and want their foreign policy back." ... Read more:

Rich Lowry is editor of National Review.
                   

Obama's Vietnam

American Thinker   "Vietnam has long been recognized as a failure caused by political meddling in military operations, coupled with lying by Democrat presidents anxious to protect their image and popularity. 

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"The “grand strategy” of Obama in the Middle East is an indecent flux of poll numbers and sound bites.  It is to react to crises that affect American public opinion until the media and the voters are lulled into thinking that he has done something.  The purpose of American national security policy is to make Barry look good. 

 

"The price for such selfishness is that innocent blood is spilt for ignoble vanities.  Today it is Kurdish blood, but because ISIS is the sort of existential threat to Western values that in time will demand either its defeat or our surrender, inevitably it will be the blood of our best and bravest that will wash away the venality of Obama and his Vietnam." Read more:
 

No, Turkey has not given us permission to use their air bases to attack ISIS  ... "What an astounding level of incompetence. When the national security advisor goes on TV and claims something that is demonstrably false, is it because she was misinformed? How can you not know the status of such important negotiations?" ...  Rick Moran

Women in the Combat Arms

Blackfive   "So, the Marine Corps has been running some tests.  I know you've read about the top-line ones, such as women testing at the Infantry Officers' Course.  But it's a much broader effort, and some of the results have begun to be analyzed by independent agencies.

"Now, remember that these are women who have already succeeded in becoming Marines, and have further self-selected by volunteering to be tested as examples of female strength and endurance.  They're the very best, in other words, and deserve a great deal of respect both for achieving the title of Marine and for putting themselves forward in this way.

"So look at the results*, and let's talk about whether this policy is the right one for the US military."

Posted by Grim on October 08, 2014 at 10:35 PM in Caring For The Defenders, Current Affairs, Military | Permalink

 

*U.S. Marines' tests undermine women-in-combat agenda    "Artillery simulation revealed 28 times as many females as males failed". 

... "The results were found in Marine Corps documentation by the Center for Military Readiness, which issued a report called “U.S. Marine Corps Research Findings: Where is the Case for Co-Ed Ground Combat?”

 

"According to CMR, a non-profit think tank, the Obama administration expects the Marine Corps to find a way to assign women to ground combat units without lowering standards.

 

“In the independent view of CMR, quantitative research done so far indicates that these expectations cannot be met,” the group said." ...   Read more

But...but, in the cop shows the women are in command and can beat men up with little effort. In TV commercials and sit-coms the women are the intelligent ones and the men are shallow nincompoops, often told by women to go back to their caves. 

OBAMA FORBIDS FBI TO USE RELIGION IN IDENTIFYING TERROR THREATS, AS ISIS RECRUITS OPENLY IN U.S. MOSQUES!

Karin McQuillan   This post originally ran at the American Thinker (courtesy of the Investigative Project on Terrorism).

... "It is not an exaggeration to say that because of Democrat political correctness hamstringing our FBI agents, they could not combat the Islamists in our midst without Steven Emerson.  Oliver “Buck” Revell, former head of FBI Investigations and Counter-Terrorism, said as much in these words:  “The Investigative Project has been one of the most important sources of accurate and timely information on the real goals and objectives of the wide spread and powerful Islamist movement.”

 

"The FBI turns to Emerson to find out what is happening.  So does AT.  This is what Emerson told us:" ...

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"Question for our Congress:  Obama will do nothing to revoke the passports of American ISIS maniacs.  What are you doing about it?"

Hat tip to Teri Key, Lompoc, CA. 

 

 

The riddle of black America’s rising woes under Obama

Financial Times

 

"Those who have fared worst under this president are the ones who love him the most "