Political Extremism Infiltrates the Pentagon
Every once in a while something happens so shocking, so inconceivable, that it threatens to remove the last bastions of confidence I have in the federal government. The appointment of Rosa Brooks, the radical left-wing Los Angeles Times columnist, as an advisor to Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michelle Fluornoy is one of those moments. And by advisor, I don’t mean someone who talks on an informal basis — I mean a full-time advisor so committed to helping formulate policy that she had to leave her position as a fire-breathing partisan columnist.
It’s frighteningly unclear what caused Brooks to receive the appointment. She’s the author of a book about civil liberties during wartime, is a law professor, and is the director of Georgetown University Law Center’s Human Rights Institute. But why was Brooks, out of the thousands of legal experts in the country, chosen to become a high-level advisor? What made her so attractive? It can’t be her admittedly impressive resume, as there surely are other equally prestigious advisors available in this country of 300 million people.
Brooks could only have been chosen for the opinions she’s voiced, so it’s fair to ask what positions she has that made her catch the eye of Fluornoy and whoever else recommended her.
Was it her attitude towards the previous administration, which she described as “local authoritarians”? On more than one occasion, she’s questioned the sanity of President Bush, hardly the tone of respect President Obama sought to bring to today’s “broken politics.” In her piece titled “Straightjacket Bush,” Brooks says that the president and vice president should “be treated like psychotics who need treatment.”
Even more alarming are her stances on important national security issues. She opposed the surge, which she says “someday the history books will have harsh words” for. She also charges the Bush administration with exaggerating the threat from al-Qaeda. “At the time, most experts say, this description of al-Qaeda simply wasn’t true. It was little more than an obscure group of extremist thugs, well financed and intermittently lethal but relatively limited in their global and regional political pull. On 9/11, they got lucky,” she writes.
The American public has been fooled once again into thinking that freedom comes at no cost. The mere fact that we have not been attacked since 9/11 is not equated to the actions of the Bush administration, rather the incompetence or lack of will of the enemy. As we dismantle our defense and intelligence apparatus in the name of appeasing the Left, we will inevitably be exposed to the unnecessary risk of attack. Who will we blame once this happens? Will Obama have enough political capital to spin himself out of that one?
Unfortunately, nothing shocks me now when it comes to this administration, Obama could appoint Cindy Sheehan as Secretary of Defense and I would not double take. What does shock me is the level of blind partisanship that allows Obama to maintain favorable popularity. It makes no sense to “give him a chance” if off the bat he has exposed himself as the most radical anti-business, anti-productivity, anti-security president this side of a century.
His appointments are laughable, and the lack of media attention and scrutiny is beyond incomprehensible. Hopefully this first 100 days crap wears off and the media decides to its job.
The LA Times opinion writers (outside of Jonah Goldberg and maybe George Skelton) are useless hacks. Ugh, good riddance, readers were happy to see her go.
Ryan, this has to be a joke. Almost too absurd to really believe. Thanks for this article — I haven’t read this anywhere else.
It’s only fair we try some other ideology. We have tried the extreme right wing kind and look where that has gotten us.
Jordan, you’re kidding, right? You are devoid of all principle.
I wonder how long it’ll take before the uncomfortable urge to scream “Baby killer!” and throw red paint on anybody in unfiorm at the Pentagon will drive someone like her nuts.
The USA can welcome itself to Eurabia. The EU is today run by left wing, anti capitalist, anti imperial post modern, multi cultral ideologues who are loyal to a political ideology and not to the state (so yesterday). To undo the misdeeds and spaghetti tenticles of these people could be near impossible in the intermediate future.
We could be witnessing the beginning of the fall of the USA as we know it today. I hope I am wrong.
The lady doth project too much. The crazy lady is calling the sane ones crazy. Here she is on what to do about the moribund msm:
“Years of foolish policies have left us with a choice: We can bail out journalism, using tax dollars and granting licenses in ways that encourage robust and independent reporting and commentary, or we can watch, wringing our hands, as more and more top journalists are laid off.”
Frightening to think that a mind so out of touch with the imperatives of human nature will now be advising our top military planners.
1. cannedjam:
“Obama could appoint Cindy Sheehan as Secretary of Defense and I would not double take.”
What a great idea!
Mauro:
“With Brooks’ appointment, this sentiment has gone from simply foolish and disrespectful to dangerous, as her hyper-partisanship has caused her to assume that one must be mentally ill in order to agree with President Bush’s positions.”
That’s right.
Were you expecting Rush Limbo to be appointed here?
Are you kidding? We “tried the extreme right wing”? Do you know your right from left? And what a mindless mantra–it’s only “fair”. Sounds like you have some serious convictions, dude. Please, read the article next time. Sorry, Jordan, but ya know, the cool aid would wear off eventually if you didn’t keep drinking it. One day you’ll wake up and smell the refried beans, but it’ll be too late then.
By the way, great article. Unreal the people he’s appointing. Every day is another slap in America’s face with this guy. Giving our Rockstar Obama “time” and “the benefit of the doubt” is like waiting for a velociraptor to domesticate himself–while it trashes your home! God help us.
Jordan, you are a tool. Or are you Ms. Brooks under a different name? Hard to tell. She is to advise the Undersecretary of Defense.There is no room of military hating left wing moonbats in that position. The Pentagon in not the place to try “ideologies” Defense should not be a target for social engineering. If you understood of that which you speak of, you would realize that the Pentagon and Defense must be, by the it’s very nature, “right wing”. If you want to think of it as “extreme”, it show how little you know about the topic. To give you an example of a good adviser to Defense, this lady comes to mind. http://www.ktmcfarland.com/
Obama tears our walls down and paints targets on our backs…he’s fixing to release 44 photos of the abuse at Abu Gharib..hold on to your hats and watch your back
I guess I know which side Brooks will be on when society collapses. Hopefully, I’ll get to discuss all these issues with her in a cold, dark alley.
“Brooks is also a member of the paranoid opposition — the type of political activist who so dislikes their rivals that they become convinced they are capable of all kinds of evil, reduced to an almost subhuman cornucopia of insanity and deceit.”
AKA, every neo-con poster on the jammies. Also, pronoun vagueness for the loss.
TO: Ryan Mauro[on]
RE: Heh
You consider THIS, THAT!
Are you down off of the drug of choice you were using the other day defending DHS’s claims that I and every other white, conservative military vet were threats to national security?
How very odd…..
Regards,
Chuck(le)
P.S. What color of crayon were you smoking the other day?
Makes one want to cry, like Henry II “will no one rid us of these tiresome marxist multiculturalists” — and start thinking truly unthinkable thoughts about saner military heads prevailing. It’s a fantasy that no one would dare harbor for real – the military sweeping the leftists and statists of all parties out of the government, the judiciary, the universities and the schools, reestablishing the republic on traditional principles, with a franchise that excludes those who feed at the public trough, and getting on with the business of protecting life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness!
The price we are going to pay for this administration is going to be staggering. I hope we get our collective sanity back and get these people out of power before it is too late.
Goes to show the Obama administration is dragging us back to the two worst administrations on defense in recent memory; the Carter and the Clinton.
The Carter admin essentially created the hollow military of the late 70′s with low funding and no new weapons system to keep pace with the USSR.
Obama is also recreating the Clinton Military, “the meals on wheels” military, where the military exists to do humanitarian mission and provide social services, but NOT to hurt people and break things in defense of America and our way of life.
Ryan,
You’re a funny man — interesting and witty.
Brooks is hyper partisan: OK. Look at what Obama did when he was head of the Harvard Law Review. This kind of appointment is pretty characteristic of him, which is why no one is truly surprised by it.
And you do pay some homage to talk radio. But, I guess we all do when talking in these kind of mud slinging articles.
The undisclosed advisor is Rush Limbaugh.
Good points. DoD
These liberal women hags are all smoke and mirrors.
Dingy Pelosi- “I didn’t receive a memo for torture”-
Janet Nepotiolan- “X- military men and women are probably suicide bombers waiting to jump on us”-
And this Witch.
The magical one uses these for his propaganda tools while he moves behind closed doors talking socialized medicine and trillions of nodollar pay outs.
Don’t be fooled by the Bikini clad botox riding babes marching in front of you.
That last sentence just made me sick!
I gotta go puke.
Sorry, Charlie, it was established under George XLIII of blessèd memory that matters of foreign and aggression policy are the concern of nobody outside the Unitary Executive Branch.
Happy days.
“The American public has been fooled once again into thinking that freedom comes at no cost.”
Fear mongering at its best. There are very, very few countries on this planet that might have the ability right now to take our freedoms away through invasion. The organization known as Al Qaeda will never come close. All they can do is attack us, and then have Americnas vote to have their freedoms taken away. Which, of course, is dumb.
The surge? If history is hard on a huge success and if this continues and history is allowed to exist ABO (after Barack Obama), what it will not be kind to, is his administration. Carter set a high bar for stupid but it took nearly his entire four year term. This vaults completely over that mark in a mere 100 days. Impressive stuff!
14. Boris:
“Brooks is also a member of the paranoid opposition — the type of political activist who so dislikes their rivals that they become convinced they are capable of all kinds of evil, reduced to an almost subhuman cornucopia of insanity and deceit.”
AKA, every neo-con poster on the jammies.
When I read that, I thought, yeah, that’s about what I think of Brooks. Difference is, it’s historically documented where her ideology ends up.
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Book-Communism-Crimes-Repression/dp/0674076087/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240579642&sr=8-1
I mean, come on, her whole “Bush and Cheney need to be treated as mentally ill” is straight out of the Communist “reeducation” handbook.
vivo, I see that the medication has worn off again, you really need to take those pills every six hours. Cindy Sheehan, really?
What do you think the job of Defense is? I, for one, think their job is to crush the enemies of my nation, by whatever means. This crazy woman thinks that our enemies are our friends.
Maybe we should send her undercover to Iran for a little while, I’m sure they would listen politely to her strident opinions. Or perhaps she should level the same criticisms against Lil’ Kim from inside the lunatic asylum that North Korea has become, or does she think he is a swell guy.
This is typical Lefty nonsense; shrilly screaming about the people that are protecting them from the safe haven of the US that they hate so much.
And “Mr. Ready To Lead” (who claimed to have everyone he needed to run the country already lined up) cannot find anyone better. I am fairly certain that Rosa Brooks doesn’t know an M-16 from an M-1, what sort of “advice” can she possibly provide? This stinks of Chicago-style payoffs to partisan supporters (heck, she will still have a job after the paper goes under).
Oh my God – Sound the alarm! Chicken Little – The sky is falling! The next thing you know Obama will be shaking hands with dictators just like Nixon, Eisenhouer and Bush! The end is coming!
@26. Robert Hurley
You miss the difference between shaking hands as a matter of formal politeness between diplomats and leaders and the sort of subservient abasement that Obama has been serving up. He grovels, they adressed annother leader ina formal manner.
this is going to work out so well….i can just feel the sunshine shooting out of my arse….it’s all good now….a unicorn just frolicked past my window….puppy dogs are running all over the lawn…..the peoples really bad republic of mass murder maybe has nuke tipped missles…..the please talibone me in my rectum in pokestain is close to over running alot of ready to go nukes….oh yeah….i can feel the warmth…..this is going horribly wrong….when is enough enough….WHEN WILL WE MARCH ON DC EN MASSE…..WHEN….WHEN IS IT GOING TO BE BAD ENOUGH…..i’m done
Yet more proof that Carter II is on a mission to dismantle the military. It would be funny if it weren’t true and happening right before our eyes.
Glad people like Robert Hurley can muster up enough mental function to push YES for an empty suit but can’t work up enough mental capacity to take anything seriously. No wonder they voted for Carter II. Guess we know who’s been buying all of the Sham-Wow’s off of those late night infomercials.
Now that we have emasculated the Intelligence Services we can start on the Military. “Welcome back Carter.”
anton: “You miss the difference between shaking hands as a matter of formal politeness between diplomats and leaders and the sort of subservient abasement that Obama has been serving up. He grovels, they adressed annother leader ina formal manner.”
Dude, Bush kissed Saudi leaders. Kissed them.
Picture right here:
http://www.americablog.com/2009/04/why-is-bush-permitted-to-kiss-man-but.html
Please come back when you have a legitimate opinion.
#28 jjkrn: It’s almost bad enough friend, almost. With the massive amount of casualties in Iraq today, the world is now watching to see how our lame-duck President responds. Carter II has almost worn out his campaign rhetoric with his own party as witnessed by harsh questions now coming from MSM reporters that Gibbs cannot answer to their satisfaction. Increasing unemployment in the face of an almost doubled budget full of pork straight from Carter II’s desk is snapping more back to reality. The southern states are begging for the military to be sent in to help with the violence that is spilling over the border to no avail from Carter II. Americans watching as Carter II is potentially going to hold another administration up for charges for things that happened legally during a Congressionally sanctioned war. Yes, friend. The seething is increasing and the fury is just beginning to bubble to the surface. I shudder to think what will be the straw that finally breaks the proverbial camels back. God Help Us All.
Code Pink, Code Pink, this is a Code Pink alert. The prophesies of the 12th Iman are coming true and the Great Satan of the West is destroying itself from within. In this reverse of logic surrendering the police will decrease criminals and removing the nukes will cause rouge nations to become peaceful. Someone joked about this nations policies being a Hollywood to Harvard ideal,with a Chicago ward boss arm twist, and it wasn’t a joke. John Lennon’s drug induced song, “Imagination” becomes the national anthem. Will the further left finally give farm animals the right to vote? Code Pink president, resign now before we are all killed.
Rosa was fired from the Times. Even they got tired paying money for her screeds. Woman is truly unbalanced.
Horrifying. Al Quaeda just a bunch of rich dumbos who got lucky. What’s her take on the greatest threat facing the US and the west – the infiltration of a crude nuke into NYC or London?
#31 Pastor of Muppets: Kissing has always been a sign of friendship between human beings whether it be on the lips between lovers or on each cheek in a greeting. A BOW has always been shown as a sign of subservience. Sorry, not getting around that one no matter how much Liberal lipstick you put on it.
Pastor: While Bush’s man kiss was deplorable, I do believe that man kissing is appropriate behavior between equals among the sandpeople. Bowing is a sign of submission among them. So Bush bromancing with the Tusken Raiders is ick, but Hussien Obama putting his mouth at crotch level is an automatic revocation of the man card. Perhaps next time he can try bending over for the King pedophile worshipper.
I suppose if you lived in Signal Hill, Newfoundland, everyone else would look pretty much “leftist” in different degrees, eh? Obama is just dustpanning the right wing “D Teamers” who collected at the different agencies over the past 8 yrs. While I do wish he would spend more time first with that train wreck known as DHS, I guess the Pentagon’s issues are more pressing (if you don’t know what some of those “issues” might be, try this for starters:
http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,178531,00.html)
Our President is an empty suit.
If he appointed the highly qualified, he would be intimidated.
As an immature campus rebel, obama is still appointing people to stimulate a disgusting reaction from his adversaries. he doesn’t select on track record. He selects on how much he can trigger disgust.
Remember he appointed a homosexual to the Faith based innitiative something opr other.
Pastor,
It appears that you are using one bad action to justify another. That would indicate to me that you are implying that the Bush Kiss is equivalent to the Obama Bow. They were both wrong.
“Please come back when you have a legitimate opinion.”
This comment section is all about opinion. I see that you may see yourself as the self appointed Opinion Czar. That’s really heavy, dude. Your disagreement (and attempted banishment) with one of the commenters should not delegitimize the commenter. Isn’t your wish a bit totalitarian?
Tells you everything you need to know.
As I stated on a different site yesterday, over the next 10-20 years, we narcissistic, pampered Westerners are going to get an extremely harsh lesson in what happens to a free civilization that hands over control of it’s culture to artists, academics and other utopian idealists.
TO: venividivici
RE: Don’t….
…as I suspect when that DOES happen, she’s going to be one of the early victims.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[Feminism collapsed one milli-second after the first impact. -- Niven & Pournelle, Lucifer's Hammer]
She did not infiltrate, she was appointed by a Marxist president whos only goal is the destruction of the United States of America.
TO: jjkrn
RE: When?
I think the TEA Party group is planning a march on DC for Independence Day.
Hope that helps….
Regards,
Chuck(le)
P.S. You’re not ‘done’. But you might be ‘history’…..
4. Jordan wrote:
It’s only fair we try some other ideology. We have tried the extreme right wing kind and look where that has gotten us.
Peter asks: Where has it gotten us? Let’s see… Nearly 8 years without a terrorist attack on US soil… al Qaeda almost completely wiped out in Iraq and close to needing life-support elsewhere in the world… Perhaps not total love and adoration, but at least some semblence of cooperation from a good portion of the world…
Now let’s try the left’s ideology… National security tossed out the door… Threats to prosecute people for doing things that were legal at the time, and prompting many of them to submit resignations becuase they were, until this administration took over, doing their job to keep our country safe… Other nations laughing at the US both behind our backs and to our faces as the leader of our country goes on a world-wide apology tour and they refuse to cooperate with us in any manner what-so-ever…
Have I missed anything? Oh yeah, this ideology change is going to do wonders for this country!
History will not judge the surge in a negative manner, either. It will judge the people behind the surge in a negative manner when they try and figure out why the surge didn’t happen in 2003 when everyone but the top defense civilians knew more troops were needed.
22. RV wrote:
The organization known as Al Qaeda will never come close.
Peter writes: You just keep telling yourself that over and over when it is you standing in the building a terrorist blows up, thus depriving you of your rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
24 venividivici:
“I mean, come on, her whole “Bush and Cheney need to be treated as mentally ill” is straight out of the Communist “reeducation” handbook.”
Which is followed beautifully by anton:
“vivo, I see that the medication has worn off again, you really need to take those pills every six hours.”
So, anton is a commie?
@31. Pastor of Muppets
Yep, that is a formal method of greeting in that part of the world, or go to France, Italy, Belgium etc and the formal kiss (one on each cheek) is a mode of greeting between diplomats, freinds etc. And your point was………
My point is the TONE of what is being done/said. I can shake hands with a man before a football game and then do my best to crush him during the game, the hand-shaking does not impede my efforts. Now, if I bowed down before him and then did my best not to win the game that would be a different matter, my team-mates would have questions. If it developed into a pattern of behavior I would be off the team (or at least on the bench until I was traded).
What I would like to know is how anyone thinks it is a good thing to have an ultra partisan hack like this woman having any official involvement in national security. Can you imagine the screams of terror that would have followed Ann Coulter being tapped as a senior advisor?
This just goes to show you how this administration has put partisanship and protection of their power above all else. This is an ultra extremist administration that we will be paying for for a long, long time.
@48. Boris
Well, all the trolls are now here, I was referring to the little pills that they give to prevent the psychotic reaction the comes about from the inability to reconcile the facts in front of you with your preconceived veiw of the world.
vivo supports Obama who thinks that if we are nice to murderous thugs they will be nice back, this is simply madness.
If we are nice to murderous thugs then the job of thuggishly murdering us is simply that much easier. They (Obama and vivo)both seem to be unable to reconcile their view of the world with the reality they are in contact with. This is a symptom of mental illness, it is common in cult-type religions like Wahhabbism and Marxism where ever greater efforts must be made to mask the irreconcilable nature of reality and cult-belief. Often a complete breakdown can be avoided with proper treatment and medication.
This is what led me to beleive that vivo was taking little pills.
Bush and Cheney weren’t crazy, they got some things wrong and a lot of people didn’t like their answers, but at least they understood that if a crazy guy says he wants to kill you it would be a good adea to pay attention.
I often come on this site to get an insight into the views of people I disagree with. What I find both fascinating and disturbing is the amount of hatred and vitriol that gets sprayed so liberally [!] in all directions. Everything seems predicated on confrontation and struggle. You’ll hate me saying this [cue abuse] but that is pure Marx. It’s that very Hegelian struggle which has caused so much misery over the last hundred years. What’s so wrong with listening? What’s so bad about entering into dialogue with people you disagree with? I can already predict the response. ‘It’s no good talking to terrorists – there’s only one thing they understand.’ Well actually, no. Look at Northern Ireland. IRA men once vilified as evil scum are now sharing power very successfully. Ask the people of Norther Ireland which they preferred. War war or jaw jaw. That is a no brainer
TO: Dave
RE: What ‘Good’ Is It?
It depends on what one defines as ‘good’. Just ask Bill Clinton to define ‘is’.
I’m certain that those who wish to destroy the country by weakening it’s defenses to the point of being ‘negligable’ think it’s VERY ‘good’.
The crucial point will arrive if someone pops a nuke in NYC or LA or Chicago or SanFran or some other such place. Then the question will become, what will the rest of US do about this mess?
Regards,
Chuck(le)
P.S. If you live in a major metro area, I’d suggest NOW would be a good time to consider moving elsewhere…..
Despite the nonsensical blatherings of the left; despite the evidence to the contrary about America’s involvement in 9/11; despite the fact that they have no recollection of the Clinton maladministration, they’re sure of one thing:
It’s all Bush’s fault!
From global warming to Katrina, and even to events that took place prior to Jan. 20, 2001…anyone remember that whole “6 degrees of Kevin Bacon”? It’s like that, only even less relevant & more inane.
You see, the GOP, Bush, conservatives et al, are always – ALWAYS – responsible for the mistakes made by both major parties (aka America in general), while the protofascist left is never to blame for their own. Not even when they acknowledge them, which is rare.
It must be nice to be a liberal; the irresponsibility of a teenager’s mentality never fades. No matter how much trouble you cause or get into, it’s always someone else’s fault!
1.cannedjam “The American public has been fooled”
May I suggest an encouraging edit: “SOME OF the American public….” The tea parties (sorry to wave that flag in front of the lefties on board) were the tip of the iceberg representing millions of Americans who are increasingly arguing conservative ideas in a way that is significant.
What kind of jam? Love homemade jam. (Espially strawberry-rhubarb)
Get this hack out of the Defense Dept. I feel less and less safe the more Obama and his anti-American wack jobs get into and stay in office.
Back to the original point; does anybody have anything to suggest that this person has anything worthwhile to offer as advice in defense matters?
#56 Roark gets the crux of the matter here. Carter II’s appointments have taken away that feeling of safety and security we used to enjoy as Americans.
Interesting observation from afar:
The imposition of Bolshevik Marxist totalitarianism never happened peacefully at anyplace;- everywhere it encountered popular resistance or civil war, even in the URSS or Cuba.
To my absolute stupefaction the USA is the FIRST country where the hard, Stalinist left took over overnight, with considerable public support and the rest succumbed.
I concur with poster #7 dmgold that
“We could be witnessing the beginning of the fall of the USA as we know it today.
You’re right, it’s over. No “Tea-parties” or honking your car’s horn 24/7 will loosen the iron grip of the “Bolshevik Buddhists” on this country.
They laugh at anybody who is parroting slogans originating in 1776 – they will rule by decree: all these guys have ethnic relatives who performed the same way like, Lazar Kaganovich in 1917.
They supply the ideology, the mind, the money and the Proletarians like this vivo guy and the ACORN, the homos, the Hex#993300 grup will follow them enthusiastically.
It’s over folks.
TO:Chuck
RE: TEA light march/dance on DC
i had in mind something a bit different….but i am mentally ill….just ask DHS…or Janine of course i Swallow…..now…back to filling the moat..and i just gotta sight in that 50 cal sniper thingy……..i’m soon to be history…i’m old…i would however like my kids to live a free life…..i just married the oldest daughter off to her beau…she works for a large euro defense contractor in DC(I know…euro defense contractor, a oxymoron)..i will be visiting her for the 4th…and i am attending the TEA dance….hopefully we can all network and come up with a coherent strategy of peaceful discourse and maybe we can talk this thing to death….naaaw….i’m all about pitchforks and torches….no violence…yet…but it will come to that…..prior to becoming a RN i worked for years in the nuclear business…mostly commercial..but alot of defence stuff…hush hush things…DOE ultra ultra uber i have to kill you if i tell you stuff…one thing i learned..that the detonation of even a small nuke device…or a so called dirty bomb.(believe me, there all dirty)…that the fabric of society would be changed forever….i have seen the plans for these events…they are very scary…mostly involving a total government takeover of everything until the crisis is sorted out….troops..curfews…etc..etc…and….if there is exchange of nukes somewhere in the world..say india or china/pokestain…or israel..et al…..the same plans exsist…because of the glowing radioactive fallout that will come our way..and it will…when Chernobyl blowed up..i was doing work at a commercial nuke…our out side air samples were so frickin hot…we were forbidden to count and test them….this administration is begging for this scenario…drooling….chomping at the bit…anyone who believes these “people” wouldn’t slap marshall law on this country are ….well…..mistaken…i’m not done
By the time eight years rolls around I think you will all have been fitted for straight jackets.
If this job requires confirmation, someone may stop it. But I don’t believe it does.
America is in the iron grip of a man who hates his own country, intends to destroy it, and build a repressive prison state on the ruins.
Everyone needs to turn his eyes to health care, because if that gets through the war is lost (really, not in Harry Reid terms.)We cannot count on the republicans to do anything; they are weak and cowardly and don’t really stand for anything except office. Someone needs to step up, though, and I can’t see yet who that is going to be.
#61 Robert Hurl: Eight years? LOL!!
CHAOS IS THE ORDER OF THE DAY
Democrat uni-party government is a leftist dream.
http://greensrealworld.blogspot.com/2009/04/america-is-in-full-disconnect.html
#59 Thomas: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooo! My gut tells me you may be right, but my heart demands that you be wrong. This is sickening stuff. I still cannot wrap my head around what Carter II’s real intent is. Is he smart/evil enough to be doing this damage to the US on purpose? Is he stupid enough to actually believe that he’s making good decisions? Either way it’s a lose/lose situation for us all.
61. Robert Hurley
You are right.
Many of the critics of the Bolshevik Russia ended up in psychiatric detention: according to your Marxist logic, anyone who disagree with the current “Great Leader’s” “vision” must be eliminated or branded as “insane”.
FYI: I was Eastern European at birth so we had 70 years of misfortune to get to know your mindset, mentality, practice, ideology: we are ahead of most Americans in knowing the Hell in and out.
Putting Brooks at the Pentagon is like placing Chuck Pelto in Code Pink, Bilgeman in Hugo Chavez’s security detail, placing Delia in charge of the public employee unions, or John Walker Lind’s parents as heads of a pre-school. You know the type that felt a stab of pain or annoyance on 9-11–at seeing American flags? She’s the type.
Even worse, she is impervious to reason or thought: (The most common reaction to her departure was pretty much “thank god!” and the second “lock the doors before she changes her mind!”). Any of the liberals at the Times –Rainey, Hiltzik, Skelton–or George McGovern–would be superior. At least they can think and write and be reasoned with. They have a weird love of country but at least they don’t despise it. Not good.
Folks,
I implore everybody to stop the direct debate-style engagement with Boris, Robert Hurley, Kermit the Frog, et al. Logical arguments and the citing of empirical data has not and will not EVER persuade them to “see the light.” A lib must muster their own courage to swallow the red pill. If employed, perhaps it is a close look at the withholding section of a W-2, while his deadbeat roomate sits on his ass collecting disability because of intermittent “headaches.” Maybe its the denial letter of admission from that elite college and realizing that the scholastically inferior “victim-status” classmate got accepted. The point is that these are people who couldn’t think their way out of a wet paper bag. I mean, they actually endorse President Stymie’s “spending/borrowing your way out of debt” stimulus plan; that using a culture’s ritual of formal greeting between two dignitaries of EQUAL status is the same as subjugating oneself by bowing. The best approach is dismissive ridicule and condescension. As for Vivo, well, he is simply an utter retard and merits no response whatsoever.
65. AThinkingPerson
Permit me to say this:
If some strange cult, religion, sect – like the mass suicidal Jim Jones – would take over this country I would be reluctant to express a resolute opinion because those aliens are unknown quantities to most normal people.
With this Obama situation however all the protagonist are well known to learned people since the first Communist takeover in Paris, Fr. 1871.
Alinsky, Axelrod, Soros etc. are not mysterious figures but descendant of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and there are stupendous Marxist literature, publication, books available for those interested in the History of Marxism.
If an abstract study of Marxist treatise is not enough, you can see its practical implementation in various European, Asian and Latin American countries where they tried a number of variants but all of them ended up in various level of genocide and economical ruin.
Got it? All of them.
To conclude, one doesn’t need to be an astute “intellectual” to seize up the Commies in a fraction of a second if one had to spend decades under their pernicious, corrosive rule.
And the disorganized, direction-less and extremely naive masses will not be able to reverse the path.
#68Don’tTreadonme:
Diasagree: this place shouldn’t be an echo chamber for agreeable people patting each other on the back. If ideas are worth discussing, they are worth explaining and defending to people who don’t agree. The more discussion, the better. Besides, one day 2 years from now, once of the people you didn’t call a “retard,” and who is rethinking might be a convert based on what he remembers from here. Dismissive ridicule, fun as it might be, converts no one.
It’s so early in this new administration, but it is painfully apparent that Obama and Congress leadership are so far over their head that this country is headed for major catastrophic upheavel. Everyday brings appalling appointments and news. This is not what I thought this election would bring this country in such a short period of time.
#69 Thomas: I’m starting to get sick here. Are we sheeps to the slaughter already? Surely there are enough patriots left to take back the country from the clutches of our current oppressive administration. I’m just wondering if the world sees what’s going on or are they also still starry eyed with our new President and blind to what is happening under our noses?
This appointment just illustrates how those in the present administration didn’t spend enough time when they were little playing with that toy where you put round blocks into round holes and square blocks into square holes. Right now they are trying to put a square block into a round hole. A better fit for her would be:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqhlQfXUk7w
@73 Sunglasses, it wasn’t that they didn’t try putting that peg in the wrong hole, it is just that they went to one of those idiot schools where it was OK to try to push the square peg into the round hole all day long and ignore the adjoining square hole the whole time. Nobody want them to feel “wrong” so they were never given any direction in critical thinking.
Why Brooks? Because the Dems have to supply the goods ordered by the chief bank roller of the party: George Soros. He who pays the bills calls the tunes.
Can somebody please explain to me what Rosa Brooks knows about the Pentagon or the military? She is going to the PENTAGON as an advisor on MILITARY POLICY, so what does this person know about military strategy, global military analysis, or, for that matter, anything about any of the armed services (let alone their capabilities)? Aside from the fact that she was writer for a newspaper, what credibility does she have in military matters to serve effectively as a top advisor (let alone strategist) at the Pentagon? These are the questions that should really, really, scare all Americans.
The military won’t listen to her advice…they’ll humor her and make her sit off to the side and keep quiet. The men and women with stars on their collars know how to keep us safe, I have faith in them.
70. Blackwell wrote:
Diasagree: this place shouldn’t be an echo chamber for agreeable people patting each other on the back. If ideas are worth discussing, they are worth explaining and defending to people who don’t agree.
Peter writes: I would agree with you in most circumstances. But the trolls that donttreadonme cited do not discuss ideas worth discussing. They ridicule, provoke, act like 2 year olds and basically contribute nothing of any relevance to the discussion. So like Tread, I would recommend ignoring them. I do. When I come across their monikers on a thread, I simply pass over them and move on to the next posting, confident that I am missing nothing that would move the topic along in an adult conversation.
72. AThinkingPerson wrote:
I’m just wondering if the world sees what’s going on or are they also still starry eyed with our new President and blind to what is happening under our noses?
Peter writes: Not only does the rest of the world see what is happening, they are rubbing their hands in glee over what they think they can now get away with or steal from us with the Empty-Suit-in-Chief now in control.
@72. AThinkingPerson
No. Americans are not sheeps. Simply the two ocean protected them from the onslaught and the harsh torrent of History which engulfed every other Continent. They were never exposed to evil at home for long but this protective bubble is about to burst; the Classical America where I had received political asylum some 35 years ago is no longer exist.
We Europeans always revolted violently against oppressive regimes: – I can see in the news that peoples from Paris as far as the Baltics are constantly protesting and the clashes can turn really bloody at times.
Americans now taking their first, elementary political lessons about the New World that is waiting for them out there.
First time they have non-American leaders and ideologues; a Kenyan, a Hungarian Jew Soros* who directs the show and other dubious characters.
I cannot foretell the outcome for I don’t have a good grip on the American political pulse.
*The title of this thread, Rosa Brooks is a Soros employee!!
Obama, clearly, is appointing deranged nut cases into positions of influence. Brooks is one case in point. I no longer wonder about Obama’s suitability for Presidency. He is clearly not suitable or qualified. In time, he will fail. How many of us will die because of him?
TO: Thomas
RE: [Semi-OT] Uuuuuuuhhhhh…..
….maybe. And then again…..Maybe NOT.
The situation, if this report is accurate, is about to become OBE [Overcome By Events].
But keep in mind, that old Army axiom….
At any rate, doing the math, if the report IS ‘accurate’, the mortality rate looks to be around 45%.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
P.S. Wasn’t that minister in New York ‘prophesying’ something about a imminent catastrophe?
Not that THIS is ‘it’, but I’d keep an eye on the situation and see how it develops…..
Putting an anti-American Leftist like Rosa Brooks inside the Pentagon speaks volumes of where Barry’s head is at – UP HIS @SS!!!!!!!!!! For the sake of our country, hopefully Ms. Brooks will one day disappear.
Why the hell would any American vote for a Manchurian candidate like Barry!!!?? For Christ’s sake, the only real job the fraud had was as a community agitator!!!!!!!!!!!!
It gets worse every day. The President, when he was campaigning last Fall, promised “Hope” and “Change”, terms which he never defined. It appears that he may have meant “hope” for Russia, Iran, Syria et al. “Change” appears to mean abandonment of Israel. We are learning daily that his oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America” means little to him. He has embarked on a reckless course. He is placing the citizens of this country at risk.
Take a good look at Fluornoy, the mutt who appointed Rosa Brooks:
“http://www.daylife.com/photo/0g9g1pu5ub537″
Subject: FW: Fw: Letter to our President (it’s perfect)
Help pass it on. Unless you agree with the current staff.
April 17, 2009
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Mr. Obama:
I have had it with you and your administration, sir. Your conduct on your recent trip overseas has convinced me that you are not an adequate representative of the United States of America collectively or of me personally.
You are so obsessed with appeasing the Europeans and the Muslim world that you have abdicated the responsibilities of the President of the United States of America. You are responsible to the citizens of the United States. You are not responsible to the peoples of any other country on earth.
I personally resent that you go around the world apologizing for the United States telling Europeans that we are arrogant and do not care about their status in the world. Sir, what do you think the First World War and the Second World War were all about if not the consideration of the peoples of Europe? Are you brain dead? What do you think the Marshall Plan was all about? Do you not understand or know the history of the 20th century?
Where do you get off telling a Muslim country that the United States does not consider itself a Christian country? Have you not read the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution of the United States? This country was founded on Judeo-Christian ethics and the principles governing this country, at least until you came along, come directly from this heritage. Do you not understand this?
Your bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia is an affront to all Americans. Our President does not bow down to anyone, let alone the king of Saudi Arabia. You don’t show Great Britain, our best and one of our oldest allies, the respect they deserve yet you bow down to the king of Saudi Arabia. How dare you, sir! How dare you!
You can’t find the time to visit the graves of our greatest generation because you don’t want to offend the Germans but make time to visit a mosque in Turkey. You offended our dead and every veteran when you give the Germans more respect than the people who saved the German people from themselves. What’s the matter with you?
I am convinced that you and the members of your administration have the historical and intellectual depth of a mud puddle and should be ashamed of yourselves, all of you.
You are so self-righteously offended by the big bankers and the American automobile manufacturers yet do nothing about the real thieves in this situation, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Frank, Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelic, the Fannie Mae bonuses, and the Freddie Mac bonuses. What do you intend to do about them? Anything? I seriously doubt it.
What about the U.S. House members passing out $9.1 million in bonuses to their staff members – on top of the $2.5 million in automatic pay raises that lawmakers gave themselves? I understand the average House aide got a 17% bonus. I took a 5% cut in my pay to save jobs with my employer. You haven’t said anything about that. Who authorized that? I surely didn’t!Executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be receiving $210 million in bonuses over an eighteen-month period, that’s $45 million more than the AIG bonuses. In fact, Fannie and Freddie executives have already been awarded $51 million – not a bad take. Who authorized that and why haven’t you expressed your outrage at this group who are largely responsible for the economic mess we have right now.
I resent that you take me and my fellow citizens as brain-dead and not caring about what you idiots do. We are watching what you are doing and we are getting increasingly fed up with all of you. I also want you to know that I personally find just about everything you do and say to be offensive to every one of my sensibilities. I promise you that I will work tirelessly to see that you do not get a chance to spend two terms destroying my beautiful country.
Sincerely,
Every real American
TO: Ms Attitude
RE: Heh
All of those people of flag-grade rank are ALL ‘political appointees’.
I have more faith in the officers of 0-5 and below. The 0-6 types are trying to achieve a ‘flag’ of their own, i.e., political-appointee wannabes, so they’re kind of ‘iffy’, in my professional opinion and experience.
I’ve known more flag-grades who I didn’t think highly of than I’ve know who were REAL professionals. And even the ‘professionals’ can be ‘turned’.
Look at Powell. I was a captain at 4ID(M) when he was Assistant Division Commander. He was GREAT there. But when he got to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, something went bad in his mind. And when he was SecState, it only got worse….in my professional opinion.
Hope that helps….
Regards,
Chuck(le)
P.S. If you want to see a fairly accurate representation of the mentality of ‘flag-grade’ officers, I recommend Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Every time an ‘admiral’ showed up, more than likely, things went ‘bad’. Not always, but more often than not. I suspect the writers or producers had some keen observations, there…..
cannedjam (1):
I work on a military base, and get the required FBI security briefings every year. Since 9/11/01 the U.S. has successfully blocked over 500 terrorist attacks against it! The fact that we have not been successfully attacked is not because the enemy hasn’t tried.
45. Peter the Bubblehead:
You truly have a bubble-head. What are you people smoking? Wake up and stop living under the rock for godsake.
Pastor of Muppets (31)
(banging head against wall)
I’ll say this is small words.
President’s should meet other national leaders, in most circumstances, as equals. Thus, when visiting another country you use the greeting that is appropriate to the situation. The White House has an entire office that specializes in this stuff. In Saudi Arabia, equals do not shake hands. A kiss of the kind that President Bush gave is the traditional greeting between equals. In Japan, he would bow slightly – receiving an equal bow in return.
This, BTW, is why Obama’s bow to the King Abdullah was so reprehensible. He was greeting the king as a subject, not as a leader with equal standing.
61. Robert Hurley:
“By the time eight years rolls around I think you will all have been fitted for straight jackets.”
Well, that’s a relief to know. I was afraid you were going to say “strait jackets”.
Thomas (66):
That’s what’s so disturbing about all of this. I’ve heard innumerable callers to Rush, Hannity, and the other conservative talk shows say “I’m from Eastern Europe/Russia/some other communist country” and this is exactly what happened there!”
TO: Jordan
RE: Heh
Look who’s ‘talking’.
Whose more likely to be ‘smoking’ something? People who are ‘starry-eyed’, as Peter suggests? Or people who see reality?
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[Drugs are for people who cannot handle reality.]
TO: Meryl
RE: Another ‘Slice o Knife’….a la Katana
“Well, that’s a relief to know. I was afraid you were going to say “strait jackets”.” — Meryl
It’s the durgs, ya know…..
Either that or the ‘wonderful’ education that they got. I suspect Robert graduated from high school within the last ten years.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[Keep up the fire!]
FWIW, Rosa Brooks is the daughter of Barbara Erenreich, a twice-divorced old moonbat and open socialist. So I guess Rosa comes by her anger at authority figures like Bush and Cheney naturally. Poor thing. Now we will be paying for her angst. He might as well have appointed the orphaned Rosie O’Donnell.
@92. Paul of Alexandria
Your sharp observation gives me a sad satisfaction, namely that I am not the only one who recognizes the lurking disaster: for most of you – who are native to the land – all these peoples who are controlling our life appear as innocuous, “decent” other Americans working for the average Joe one way or other.
No wonder we got immediately alarmed by the likes of Axelrod, Soros, Pritzker, Emmanuel etc. because we recognize them – even against the wind – by their stench and their look: 70 years of sheer terror was the best teacher ever.
On the side note: their treasonous campaign to willfully dismantle the country protection is jaw dropping: they did not have the temerity to do that in Europe…
In the light of your absolute paralysis, impotence, helplessness I believe they will feel encouraged to speed up the destruction process….
Good read: A. Solzhenitsyn in his Harvard Address (June 8, 1978) warned Americans to the tribulation what lies ahead.
Uh, #31, What would you have Bush do-insult the cultural sensitivities of the Saudi’s?
48 Boris
I don’t speak for Anton. Ask him.
I will say this, though. You have your opinions. I have mine. You can talk until you’re blue in the face and you won’t convince me of your opinions and vice versa. This is clearly unsustainable in a political context. North and South Korea are split for a reason.
4. Jordan: Said
It’s only fair we try some other ideology. We have tried the extreme right wing kind and look where that has gotten us.
Sorry Jordan We have not try anarchy, that’s the extreme right wing… Bush was a centrist
There is a small, a very small hope that when this jerk gets to see the actual numbers and facts she will come to her senses. It’s not the sort of thing that we should be the ranch on … but it seems the chips have already been laid.
96 Thomas
I notice that none of the trolls will respond to your posts, but I hear you loud and clear. Deep down, they know what the “endgame” is and they hope that they will be rewarded for their service. The irony, which they may or may not understand, is that even the biggest suck-ups in the Eastern bloc sometimes ended up in the gulags at the whims of the leadership. I’m sure at least half of the prisoners in the gulags at any one time had no earthly idea what they did wrong.
Thomas
You bring up good points and are fun to read. However, your anti-Semitism wells up every time. Is there anything you can do about it? Not every Jew is a left leaning Bolshevik bent on killing you. I don’t see every Ukrainian as a Nazi camp guard. I agree with you on so many things, yet you make me twitch.
Valerie
Bush was just horny. He just saw something that reminded him of home.
You can’t fault him for that.
Jordan
SIUYA
Don’t worry, everybody. The next time we are attacked, the American public will have the good sense to throw out those who are not deadly serious about government’s first and fundamental obligation to protect our society and its borders, and replace them with those who are. Then Newt or Mitt will be in there and a new sheriff will be in town, and the cost of the people’s decision to put Obama in office will simply be the lives that are lost before this happens. Hopefully it doesn’t go down like that, I know he wouldn’t want that on his conscience.
Obama really does not intend ill. I’m convinced he means well. Remember he was a state senator a few short years ago. But he’s a liberal democrat, and it is in his nature to live in a world he desires rather than the world that actually exists, and to seek the approval of others. As is usually the case with such a person, he will not have his epiphany until he has to personally witness carnage that he perceives himself to be responsible for. One almost hopes that he has the capacity to pretend that ultimately the blame for such an event rests with the right, and do nothing, rather than grow some late-hour courage and unwittingly overreact and destabilize the world with even graver consequences.
I would like to think that this appointment to DoD is merely window dressing to appease the far left, and that stealthily, Obama is in fact serious about protecting our nation. But in my heart, I fear he really, genuinely doesn’t get it. A man who goes around apologizing for his powerful country when he is its leader, and presenting weakness to dictators while justifying it after the fact with oblique references to their proportional defense budget, is either dangerously naive and incompetent, or a completely Machiavellian deceiver. But right now, I think the former. I think he is not capable of doing what is necessary to solve a national security problem. I do however think he would act if and only if he believes that inaction will be measured by the American public as him being weak and incompetent. Not the kind of guy you want in there, sure, but, hopefully if and when the time comes he’s got the ability to make a decision he knows will kill American troops. That being the president’s job, and all.
Does anyone here think he might actually be intelligent enough to know Carter’s legacy and political enough not to want to repeat it, or rather, be seen as repeating it?
Shades of Samantha Powers.
Chuck 87….thanks for that background info which, unfortunately, documents some of what we sense. I have found similar comments in some of the monographs my older brother wrote in the last couple of years of his life.
He enlisted in the Navy as a high school “drop out” in 1945, as did many of the farm boys from Montana. He went up through the enlisted ranks. He retired after 28 years as a Commander.
He was involved in combat photography in Korea, the IGY (1958) in Antarctica, reconnaisance flights over Cuba and the Finland/Russia borders (as both photographer and navigator), etc.
The comments that military professionals are bringing to the table on sites like this are important, even if we don’t catch all the significant aspects. Your discipline in sharing in a targeted and restrained way is a fine thing. We realize you’re not telling all you know, but thank you for telling what you can.
You have simply misunderstood. When the Democrats say Obama is post-partisan, they mean you will not be allowed to disagree with him.
Chris H. #52
The IRA v. Islamic terrorism are not analogous. We have not sought to change their nations or internal beliefs unless they have exported violence. Nor should we.
It is the Islamic Terrorists who insist you and I either convert to Islam or become Dhimmi. A dhimmi is a second class person with reduced rights living under Sharia law.
Even full rights under Sharia would be shocking to most of us. No free speech. No right to arms. Women have no rights at all, and are routinely tortured and killed for “offenses” like driving, being alone with a non-relative male, etc. Homosexuals are killed. Genocide of Jews, practicing or not.
Our demand: just don’t kill our people.
Their demand: total surrender to them, and total subjugation.
Chris, which of YOUR freedoms are you willing to part with? Which of the women you know are you willing to see stoned to death? Have any homosexual friends?
At least most of those who want unilateral disarmament vis a vis the terorists typically live in the very cities that are most likely to be the targets of a terrorist attack. Payback can be hell.
89. Jordan wrote:
45. Peter the Bubblehead:
You truly have a bubble-head. What are you people smoking? Wake up and stop living under the rock for godsake.
Peter writes: And as is typical of the lefty loonies, when they can’t refute facts, they stoop to the level of 2 year old name-callers.
Sticks and stones, lefty.
As Frank J. told us, Borat Obama strikes again! The punking of America continues…
Oh please stop whining! The Pentagon didn’t get armour to troops in time; took unarmoured Humvees, wanted that idiotic Crusader system that even Rumsfeld nixed, and spend more time in the officer’s club than talking to front line troops. Just like WWII where the officers club at Pearl Harbor served steak twice per day.
She’ll be a breath of fresh air amidst a bunch of old fogies.
Chuck Pelto (#87): Regarding military officers who are venal careerists who no longer serve the interests of the nation and those they lead, but instead themselves, I like what the late Colonel David Hackworth said. Hackworth, one of America’s most decorated soldiers and a peerless combat leader, called them “perfumed princes.” My favorite example 9there are many) is former General Wesley Clark; there’s a butt-kisser if I ever saw one. I am also lately very disappointed in Colin Powell, who has revealed himself to be a turncoat and a political opportunist. The simple fact is that one does not rise that high in the military, to flag rank (or the most senior flag rank of all, Chairman of JCS) without being an intensely political animal, and something of a self promoter.
The late Colonel John Boyd – an infamous firebrand both during and after his career in the USAF – often said to rising young officers with stars in their futures, ‘You face a choice to be or to do, to be promoted or to do something of lasting value.” He was acknowledging the fact that it is a very rare person who can do both. Taking ethical stands on principle and not “going alone to get along” can cost you that promotion to flag rank.
And yes, to confirm what you said, promotions to flag rank are essentially political in nature, since they are done with “the advice and consent” of Congress.
“The Pentagon didn’t get armour to troops in time; took unarmoured Humvees”
Lies! White hat, you read to much MSM. The Troops HAD body Armor, they have BETTER body armor today. Body armor is something that is updated continually. What the troops have today is better then what they had last year and not as good as what they will have next year.
HMMWV (High Mobility Multi Wheeled Vehicle AKA Hummer) are NOT supposed to be armored. The Army has SEVERAL different ypes of Armored vehicles, none of which were available in the numbers needed because a really stooooooopid Army General decide to spend money on a gold-plated BTR clone.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/future/interviews/shinseki.html
Gen Shinski is a classic ‘Perfumed Prince’ and the stupidist SOB to wear Stars on his Army Uniform since General McNeal, the ‘genius’ that gave us the tank destroyer and the 2.36″ Bazooka. Eric is the darling of the left.
Clinton loved him…… but we won’t go there.
Well, she has top security clearances so whatever the old Pentagon fogies are working on, other old fogies in Beijing, Moscow, Tehran, Pyongyang, Havana and Caracas will hear all about it, with dispatch and beaucoup alacrity.
But it’s only the Pentagon, so why worry?
Well, i only got as far as #39 where ‘seven’ proposes that President Obama’s appointments seem almost to be some sort of personal joke on the nation’s institutional structures. that hit a nerve, well two nerves, read on, so before i got too demoralized to type i came here to the bottom to make sure that anyone reading this knows that the Clinton CIA chief John Deutch, who was, while Director of the CIA, caught with some 17,000 top secret files (vot, you never hoid?) loaded onto his unprotected, open-to-the-world home computer. He had this AOL account, y’see, and tho he was supervising the CIA’s programmatic cyber security build, he somehow at 5:00 PM sharp occasionally forgot what the term meant –tho he was the boss, crazy huh? –and went and goofily, like that scamp Sandy Berger, secretly took all that stuff home and inexplicably, maybe to take a Super Mario Brothers break, put the CIA’s top secrets on the internet. Well, long/short, he was (yawn, by this time, late 90s) fired, then charged, then pardoned by President Clinton, then disappeared from public view awhile, then reappeared and was just now by jingo whaddaya know been hired by President Obama as his, no, not gardner or personal trainer, but spy satellite adviser –the man with the pencil on our first line of defense against well, whatcha got? A full scale ICBM launch? Or maybe nothing. But, since there’s only 320,000,000 non spy-scandalized Americans available, it makes perfect sense that John Deutsch would be Obama’s main man on this critical outpost; right, my liberal gibbering lunatic fellow citizens and fellow potential or maybe pre crispy critters?
Oh, and for Deputy Attorney General, with only a five million lawyers to choose from, it makes perfect sense that President Obama would reach into multi-Fannie Mae-millionairess Mistress of Double Doom (skyscrapers and global financial systems tremble) Jamie Gorelick’s new law firm and tap the bright young legal eagle who owes his position to his first-rate First-Amendment defenses of the kiddie and adult porn industry on behalf of those nice goodfellas over at the mob, one Mr. David Ogden.
No, my lovely droolingly lugubrious liberal fellow occupants of our fast-becoming-sick-of-you planet, i’m not making this up. You should take a look (“search” the “web”) sometime. Y’know, to build up some actual data with which to validate your “feelings” so to speak.
Would anyone on the left defend Ann Coulter being appointed to the Justice Department (she is a lawyer after all) in a Republican Administration? I think not…
25. anton:
“vivo, I see that the medication has worn off again, you really need to take those pills every six hours. Cindy Sheehan, really?”
It was a joke. Lighten up.
51. anton:
“They (Obama and vivo)both seem to be unable to reconcile their view of the world with the reality they are in contact with.”
Your “reality” is negative and defeatist. You have to be smarter than your enemies, not just blabbering threats.
” This is a symptom of mental illness, it is common in cult-type religions like Wahhabbism and Marxism where ever greater efforts must be made to mask the irreconcilable nature of reality and cult-belief. Often a complete breakdown can be avoided with proper treatment and medication.
This is what led me to beleive that vivo was taking little pills.”
Your paranoia is curable. You need some pills.
59. Thomas:
“I concur with poster #7 dmgold that
“We could be witnessing the beginning of the fall of the USA as we know it today.”
Change is constant. This the 21st century. You are 1 among 6 billion people. What do you expect? The fall of oppressive capitalism, maybe. The rise of a better country, hopefully. The World has a better opinion of the USA now than you do, isn’t it ironic? We’re going in the right direction. Did I say “right”? Ironic.
TO: DavidN
RE: The ‘Coulter’ Analogy
It’s a poor analogy. And breaks down at first glance.
Why?
Because whereas there is good reason to believe that Brooks will stand in the way of the military doing what the military is SUPPOSED to do, e.g., her background as a ‘human rights activist’, there is no reason to suspect that Coulter would stand in the way of Justice doing what it’s supposed to do.
And a similar arg could be made vis-a-vis Rush Limbaugh being put as chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under a Republican administration.
The big difference is, as buddy larson points out (above), TRUE conservatives do not go about destroying the country. Whereas that is EXACTLY what these so called ‘liberals’ do, as attested to by buddy larson.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[The Truth will out....]
TO: All
RE: [OT] Lighten Up
“It was a joke. Lighten up.” — vivo
He/she is only 11 years old….according to his/her report in another thread.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
The military needs to consider arresting Obama and his cronies for the sake of the America that they’re destroying.
Gee, Rosa Brooks sounds as bad as Dick Cheney. Extremist, paranoid, hateful – it’s Dick Cheney and the Bush White house team of crazies back at us.
And, yes, Al Qaeda got lucky. Maybe there were things we could have done to have made 9/11 less likely, but even assassinating bin Laden would probably not have stopped the entire plot. Not without giving up some of the civil liberties that make our country worth defending.
@102. Oscar the Grump
You are off the mark:
I NEVER made a generalized remark affecting your peoples: I always use qualifying adjectives that separate individuals or group of peoples from other group of peoples.
I clearly see the difference between the Hungarian Soros and the Hungarian Edward Teller but YOU DON’T. I denounce the the first and revere the second.
I see the difference between the self-loathing ones and those who support their Nation but you don’t.
I do not conflate Haaretz with Arutz Sheva but you do.
I don’t know a single ethnicity on earth which abhors more to look into their own kin’s deeds than yours;- may be the Turks relative to the Armenians.
Let me quote from Solzhenitsyn:
“For if we release ourselves from any responsibility for the actions of our national kin, the very concept of a people loses any real meaning”
(Two Hundred Years Together)
@118. vivo
I could never understand the mindset of those Neo-Nazis who used to parade – clad in full SS regalia, SS helmet, shirts etc. – in the streets of Skokie Il. or let say, in Dresden, Germany.
We know everything about the Nazis, we beat them to pulp so what the hell are wanting to sell us again?
You have similarities: You are pontificating about the CHANGE (!) and the 21 st. century yet you live in the 19 th. century while you are attempting to sell Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital” which was written in 1867 and tried and retried since 1917 causing 100 million death, and material “richness” what you can see in Cuba.
You are not the future but the bloody past:
Here is a quotation what you would applaud feverishly:
Who Said This?
(From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Tue, 2007-05-01 10:58)
“We are Socialists, enemies, mortal enemies of the present capitalist economic system with its exploitation of the economically weak, with its injustice in wages, with its immoral evaluation of individuals according to wealth and money instead of responsibility and achievement, and we are determined under all circumstances to abolish this system!”
A quote from?
Adolf Hitler in his May Day Speech, Berlin, 1 May 1927
(quoted by John Toland in his book Adolf Hitler, 1976, p. 306.
Are you surprised that Stalin-Hitler loved each other? (re: Molotov-Ribbentrop)
Just like your Messiah and Castro and Chavez.
@118. vivo
How about this, Camarada:
Mussolini’s own summary of the Fascist philosophy:
“Tutto nello Stato, niente al di fuori dello Stato, nulla contro lo Stato” (Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State)
It sounds almost like this:
“Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada” [“For the race everything, outside the race nothing”] Americans of Mexican descent.
Thanks for the Saturday morning fatuous grandiosity, vivo. How convincing you are. Perhaps if you explained the ‘oppressive’ part, you’d accidentally spill a term or two that would allow more debate than your airtight & breathless “ein volk” approach.
History will not judge the surge in a negative manner, either. It will judge the people behind the surge in a negative manner when they try and figure out why the surge didn’t happen in 2003 when everyone but the top defense civilians knew more troops were needed.
In 2003, the critics were recommending not starting the war until we were capable of invoking the Powell Doctrine … and even putting the danger of waiting as Iraq became Afghanistan 2.0 aside, invoking the Powell Doctrine would have been COUNTERPRODUCTIVE, as its primary effect would have been to feed the “occupier” propaganda of the enemy, while giving said enemy more targets to shoot at, with little return in terms of enhanced security.
Actually, the real mistake is one that you probably supported, RV … putting on the pressure to find the exit door, starting as soon as that statue fell, along with the walking-on-eggs in order to sustain a “minimal footprint” as we looked for the exit.
It was when we abandoned that strategy — starting before the Surge, in al-Anbar — and instead moved out among the Iraqi people, motivated by a determination to stay among them and KEEP the enemy out (instead of killing some in an area, then moving back inside our bases and allowing the enemy to return to terrorize the Iraqi people) that brought the Iraqis to the side of rights-respecting governance.
It was this change in strategy … changing to the strategy of “no better friend, no worse enemy” or as I call it, precision-guided ruthlessness coupled with a determination to institute PERMANENT peace, whatever it took … that did more to bring Iraq towards peace than anything else … even the wise increase in troop strength during the Surge, which was nothing like the “more troops” call you cite.
Glenn A. Knight, please, what is wrong with Dick Cheney? I mean, besides that he doesn’t agree with your politics, never joined a public sector union, isn’t a government dependent nor aggrieved minority special interest agitprop bully, etcetera. Anything specific, policy-wise, that is of traditional debate legitimacy, besides those clashing fashions in lifestyle choice?
The World has a better opinion of the USA now than you do, isn’t it ironic? We’re going in the right direction. Did I say “right”? Ironic.
A robber has a better opinion of the weak, than of the strong, vivo.
The world is demanding that America change to match it, when it is much of the world that lacks the foundational principles that has led to their envy and fear of America.
If such as these would adopt the principles of rights-respecting governance that America has, they would have nothing to fear or envy from us … for they would be neither a threat to us, nor lacking relative to us in prosperity.
OTOH, if we adopt their principles, we reduce ourselves to the least-common-denominator of human endeavor … and freedom, prosperity, and peace, worldwide, will all suffer as a result.
Y’all had better hope we DON’T listen to the opinions of many of your fellow “outsiders” … if you value your own life, liberty, and prosperity.
LennyB at 105 and the CarterII references worry me. Carter was milk toast–no comparison except his same old limp liberal screw ups, which thank God Reagan was able to counter. Obummer’s team is gonna take this so far it’s going to make your head spin–even the lap dog media–but it’ll be too late. “He does not intend ill” is sadly the naivete that’s floating and promulgating the LIE epitomized by the illusion called Obummer. Apparently connecting the dots is just too painful for most. Hence, “tell a big enough lie and people will believe it” works. The O-team’s lie is as big as they come as has always been with Marxism–for them the end justifies the means, folks, and if you watch closely, he wreaks his havoc even gleefully. He’s a boy-disciple of Alinski et.al. just carrying out his job–no compunction whatsoever–and the more damage he can do, the better he serves his cause. Yes, it’s that evil–and anyone perpetrating that “means ill”. American society has been successfully dumbed down and its convictions stripped. From parenting to law enforcement and even our military, “you better not get heavy handed, buddy–who are you to shoot that kid just cause he murdered your best friend? And what were you doing with a gun?” You notice there’s a “syndrome” for everything–or how criminals get off because they’re “insane”?–”It’s not their fault, they have ABC syndrome and their parents were mean to them…” Mustn’t judge–that means there’s right and wrong, tsk tsk. Who are we to say what’s right and wrong? (“Get it Christians and the rest of you stupid believers and people with principles? You’re done here!”–stomp stomp)
Americans are used to good people, and are generally trusting, and overall just can’t believe it could happen here–and that’s why they’re so ripe and susceptible–we forgot from whence we came and what it cost to get here. This progressive campaign was fought and won in the schools and the media, but mainly thru false education. Why the hell would Bill Ayers spend his life in (re)education? Team Obama knows this so watch them manipulate the programmed youth, as they already have with the feel-good global warming lie, moveon.org and their internet strategy and now these groups he’s forming (with our money). They’re very confused kids but he knows he can count on them to police his agenda, and send them into action, causing disruptions, creating havoc, and thus justifying crack-downs. Keep an eye out for it. Despots use this demonic tactic. I was working in Iran during the rise of Khomeini when they staged a theatre fire in Abbadon mass murdering over 300 innocent people to justify a crackdown. There’s many incidents in history–right or wrong doesn’t matter, they simply worked. And once they get full control, they subjugate and/or liquidate the opposition–dah dah–man made nirvana!–for the greedy, sick evil leaders.
Don’t be naive. Power hungry people will do anything, even topple the very nation they want to take over in order to gain control, even killing it’s citizens they pledged to provide for, protect, blah blah. It’s all a lie. “The heart of man is deceitful and desperately wicked–who can know it.” Jer. 17:9
As seems to have slipped from the public’s conscience, the Constitution was created to prevent exactly this from happening again, which is why the liberal courts try to erode it. Any libbies reading this, just read the Declaration of Independence–read on thru the grievances they cite against England–those were real and sound eerily familiar to where we are and where we’re headed. Only 30% of American’s wanted to break from Britain at the time, and it was the brave forward-looking men of faith and honor who led the way. They pledged, “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor”–and all paid a very dear price for doing so.
Those who’ve lived through totalitarian regimes have learned. We’re apparently too dumbed down and desensitized, lazy and easily intimidated as a people. But there are those of us who are wide awake–we are their greatest threat and they know it, so watch for more excuses to try to shut us up. It’s always been their MO. We represent their moral conscience–or lack thereof, and just look at the extent they go to distract, drown us out, shout down, intimidate, dumb down, shake off, destroy, intoxicate, lobotomize, even kill it. You think Barney Frank actually feels good about himself? Just imagine what motivates that man. There’s a whole world of people living in rebellion against the truth, and trying to build a false world to support their rebellion. Such is Team Obama, as has been throughout history. The miracle of the American experiment of righteous government is in serious jeopardy. Lord with me abide.
TO: Themistocles
RE: Wrong
It’s not in the military’s job description.
Rather, it’s the FBI’s job description. Why?
Because they are the federal civilian law enforcement agency. AND, interestingly enough, their oath of office looks pretty much IDENTICAL to the oath an officer in the United States Military takes upon being commissioned.
The question becomes what would ‘trigger’ their doing such?
Perhaps a warrant from a federal judge?
I wonder what the Instapundit would say? Or perhaps someone at the Volokh Conspiracy?
Perhaps spending the country into a debt it can never recover from.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[The Truth is coming out.....]
TO: Glenn A. Knight
RE: ‘Maybe’??!?!??!!?!!!
MAYBE!!!!!?!
Try not to be a total fool, Glenn. The Clinton administration emasculated the CIA AND the FBI. It’s a fact. And without those assets we WOULDN’T see it coming.
Actually, FBI agents saw it coming and TRIED to stop it, but because of the ‘PC’ mentality in the FBI, NOBODY WOULD DO ANYTHING ABOUT THE REPORTS of trouble in the ‘wind’.
Hope that helps, but I suspect you’re one of the people described in THIS VIDEO.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[Fools never learn.....]
TO: buddy larson, et al.
RE: What’s Wrong with Cheney?
Cheney won’t SHUT UP!
He’s been in attack mode over the last few days and the stupid Democrats can’t get him to SHUT UP!
I just got an e-mail from some Democrat dim-bulb attack doggette named Jen O’Malley Dillon. It’s titled Send Cheney Packing: Donate Today. Here’s the opening lines…..
I replied….
Cheney is OBVIOUSLY making the Dems VERY ‘nervous’. Hence this one-over-the-world e-mail.
If you’d like to reply to this character yourself, here’s her e-mail….
democraticparty@democrats.org
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[Rebuke a fool according to their folly, lest they consider themselves wise in their own conceit. -- Proverbs]
Thomas
“I don’t know a single ethnicity on earth which abhors more to look into their own kin’s deeds than yours;”
You fail to see others in that light: Cambodians, Japanese, Germans, Rawandans, Sudanese. Lets not forget the Eastern Europeans and their unprovoked pogroms before the Russian revolution and after WWII. How many of these fine fellows wound up being mercenaries for the Mufty of Jerusalem. Some how they couldn’t get Jew killing out of their blood. You talk about Kaganovich and I see Chemelsky.
From where I stand my people, though misguided, look like angels compared to other ethnicities. I think from now on maybe I’ll preface the ethinic terms Polack, Ukrainian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, and Romanian with Nazi. Even though they were a huge part of the Einzatgroupen, I’m sure in your eyes they did no wrong.
@134. Oscar the Grump
Every country I know of – including Germany and others – (leave Rawanda and similar entities out of this discussion) – recognized the evil deeds what their countrymen committed in recent history; I don’t want to delve into Napoleonic times or the era of Czar Peter the Great…
Many countries offered financial compensation to the victims as acceptance and recognition of their guilt:
acceptance of guilt and recognition of moral depravity of ourselves are alien notions to you, you cannot fathom the weight of the word “sorry”.
Individuals like Erich Maria Remarque, Thomas Mann and others publicly condemned their fellow German citizens, Marlene Dietrich never returned to Germany…
None of them turned into an apologist shill like you are, for these peoples – when they were still alive – would have rejected your innuendo by their valiant deeds.
“I’m sure in your eyes they did no wrong.” (Eastern Europe)
What is the evidence to your assertion that I am a supporter of Fascism?
I am reluctant to continue a discussion where a genocidal Communist group of people and their descendants and acolytes are classified by you as angels and half of Europe is called Nazi – all of them without distinction.
There is nothing left to talk about.
well i hope, they are so inept that they can’t totally screw things up.
like a fender bender instead of a fatal total carcrash
Thomas
You really like to misconstrue any points made. I never defended the Bolsheviks, my family suffered enough from them. I refuse however to say mia copa. If you want that you can kiss my backside. Overall I see my people as a damn sight better than most of the rest of the world. I think that you are a hater to the core. Your excuse is your Eastern European background. Heavens none of them did anything wrong, only the Jew are at fault. Look in the mirror tonight, maybe practice your goose step and straight arm salutes.
@138. Oscar the Grump
“I refuse however to say mia copa. If you want that you can kiss my backside. Overall I see my people as a damn sight better than most of the rest of the world.
Then read the thread on this forum by David Solway: “Why Anti-Semitism Persists” – and don’t complain. Hold you head high, spit on every goyim from your make-believe Parnassus and don’t whine when sh**t hits the fan.
If you tempted to appear “damn sight better than most by using Latin words you’d better learn the language before you post nonsense.
Like this: meus-mea-meum, culpa -ae f.
And so it goes,Obama has almost all our government filled with socialist liberals. Are we going down without a fight?
TO: All
RE: Yesterday….
….in a reply to Themistocles I pointed out that it was not the military’s job to arrest the president. That applies to other federal government officials as well. Rather it is the job of the FBI. And, working at the behest of a federal judge.
In that comment, I wondered what could possibly trigger such a warrant for arrest being issued.
Today, via Instapundit, I think I see one possible ‘trigger’.
If Luskin’s understanding IS correct, it is certainly going to make a LOT of politicians and officials, in BOTH the previous and current administrations VERY nervous.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
[One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it. -- Ronald Reagan]
TO: Will
RE: Chill
“And so it goes,Obama has almost all our government filled with socialist liberals.” — Will
Every people get the governance they deserve. Remember THAT. We, in our complacency allowed this to happen. Starting back in the 1970s by not paying closer attention to what the vaunted American public education system was doing to ‘teach’ the children who are not voting adults.
“Are we going down without a fight?” — Will
You don’t think the TEA Party is ‘fighting’?
You don’t think the discussions on web-sites like this is ‘fighting’?
What are you expecting? Gunfire? Bombings? Has it come to that, in your mind? If so, what’s the justification?
Regards,
Chuck(le)
P.S. Or are you an agent provocatuer?
ERRATA!!!
That last line in the initial paragraph should read….
“Starting back in the 1970s by not paying closer attention to what the vaunted American public education system was doing to ‘teach’ the children who are NOW voting adults.” — Chuck Pelto
[Seeing my great fault, with eye-opening coffee, I begin again. -- Haiku error message]
Thomas
They censored my reply and it was really good. Too bad!
I fear that the USA is beyond any political rescue. I think that there will not be any room for the people to speak by the 2010 elections. I would be concerned by an illegal move to sieze the government. But desperate times require desperate moves..
But even if we did erase the present situation and start over, (see #143) I fear that so many have come through the leftist school system that we might fall right back to where we find ourselves now.
Way back in the Old Testament, King Hezikiah was surrounded in Jerusalem and there was no hope. None. Except that he called upon the Lord. Most Americans care nothing for God, but I think that He is entirely able to help us, and that, just perhaps, we should look to him.