Now you can worry.

The fact that apparently Barack Obama did not get in touch with his inner Lyndon B. Johnson and micromanage the incident is deserving of credit. Some national leaders, to their country’s detriment, have been unable to to simply stay out of the way.

“Once again, Ms. Rubin seems to hold out that endless, elusive hope that the Precedent will simply turn in to someone else.”

This is very unlikely to occur. President Obama is a poorly read and shallow individual. And he is too busy to get the time to get his act together. The man is not even close to being ready for prime time. Obama is also a graduate of Harvard University. Sadly, most Americans have been conned into thinking a liberal arts degree from this famous (infamous?) Ivy League institution is worthy of respect.

Everyone who fought in Iraq in order to defeat the terrorists and establish peace is a threat to Obama’s world view that you deal with evil by pretending it doesn’t exist. Or by appeasing it.

The President of the United States has the mentality of a naive 18 year old when it come to the enemies of America but he is Machiavelli when it comes to his domestic opponents. He is too strange for words. As is the phenomenon of his popularity.

But I just can’t grasp that they continue to do this and do it and do it….as though the lights are not on, as though we’re not all watching them embarrass themselves…

They absolutely remind me of a little kid who covers their eyes with their hands and then says, “you can’t see me!”

And now today we are informed by the illustrious Homeland Security that we right wingers are now (in print) identified as a central and serious threat to the security of the nation. Review the language of the release…they describe political dissent and then call us dangerous threats.

I guess we shouldn’t expect those who are “duck blind” to comment on the cannibalistic activities of Homeland Security and Janet Napalitano.

Peter writes: As has been pointed out by the military itself, the coast of Somolia is so large, it would require our entire Navy on full-time bloackade duty to effectively block the pirates from leaving port. (Especially since many of them are hidden away in small, isolated coves and not regular, populated working ports.)

What needs to be done is the Navy should protect American flagged ships. (One destroyer escorting a convoy of vessels in each direction into and out of the Red Sea should be sufficient.) Let all other countries do whatever they want to do, be it escort their own vessels or let them be captured and held ransom. Eventually shipping companies will get tired of their ships being targeted and US ships never are, and maybe ‘international consensus’ will finally turn against the pirates?

(I know. Don’t hold my breath.)

Peter writes: How about just calling them ‘Neutral Countries’?