I gotta admit, that I had an image pop up after reading that piece. If Hussein Pasha ends up adopting that as his real name, I had a vision of a reprise of George II’s recent press conference in Baghdad. However, instead of shoes flying towards the occupant of the White House, I imagined a hail of pork chops.

On a more serious note, I do not rule out the possibility; however I suspect there will either have to be a rather large supplemental appropriation for the Secret Service, or the new Civilian National Defense Force will have to establish a special unit to defend His Oneness. They would need a name. Tradition is important. How about Schutz-Staffel? It means “protection” or “guard” “Unit”. I do believe that a similar unit was assigned to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Muhammed Amin al-Husseini when he was an honored guest in Berlin from 1941-45.

In point of fact, the likelihood is that Hussein Pasha’s Muslim background, covert or expressed, can do nothing but add to the miseries we are going to have to endure for the foreseeable future.

Subotai Bahadur

I’ve been thinking that to Muslims, they think that underneath he still *is* a Muslim and he’s just been lying to the infidels to cover it up, which is perfectly acceptable in Islam. Once he’s inaugurated as Prez, he’ll step into the nearest phone booth, throw off his pinstriped suit, and emerge in a white robe with a big “M” on the chest, saying “Aha! Fooled you all, silly kaffirs!”

And start killing us all, and allowing mass Muslim immigration into the U.S.

The goal in Afghanistan is not to install democracy, it is to install an alternative (Pashtun) leadership that is willing and able to turn over al-Queda and defeat the Taliban. Also, with al-Queda gone, the Taliban might, by then, be tolerable.

The “Root Cause” of the problem is the excess wealth of the radical Muslims derived from oil money. Dry up the oil money and it all fades away.

The West is funding it’s enemies, this must stop.

“The lives of my fellow citizens and loved ones and the people I protect come before party politics.”

I agree with that, but if we wait until we get “rolled” by a tyrant, wouldn’t we be waiting until *more* fellow citizens and loved ones find themselves in harm’s way?

As long as the guy in charge in Kabul is not giving us the finger when we say we need to go blow the crap out of the bloomin’ outback that is all we need.

The Left’s focus on Afghanistan is simply a reflection of their “It’s a law enforcement problem; just go get the people directly involved in 9/11 and then forget it.” It’s their excuse for avoiding true strategic thinking.

From the seriousness of his $700 billion New Deal Redo stimulus package, I doubt it. Who’s responsible for that huge pile of crap? Surely not those wizards of finance he appointed. In the true Democrat patronage fashion-Chicago style, that pile of crap is just a unbelievably huge give-away Christmas gift to all the clamoring Democrat constituencies that helped elect him and a huge lump of coal for the rest of us.

Obama may be a stylish, glamour boy- con man who has mastered the art of looking good on the Campaign Trail, but more and more it looks beyond that face man status -he’s another stuck on Socialism Democrat Studpid empty suit who just rips a familiar page out of the Democrat playbook when he’s in trouble.

Those moderate appointees may have just been another Obama ploy to look good- to look post partisan for a while.

It may be that with the Russians tossing their weight and approval about the sub continent, an appeal to the Chinese and Baloki’s is in order. What is that big ol deep water Pakistani port being used for anyway? If the Pakistani government cannot find the resources to reign in the Islamists, then India, China and/or the US will have no choice. It is in all three of our interests to cooperate in this area, if only so we can continue to compete.

That is the message that needs to be heard in Islamabad.