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Congress must lead on security as Obama is irrelevant

The utter failure of the Obama administration can be measures in so many ways, from the number of beheaded American journalists, to embarrassing heads of state by spying on German Chancellor Angela Merkle’s personal mobile phone, to callously calling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a war hero, “chicken s***” and a “coward.”

Secretary of State John F. Kerry, a longtime member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, suggests Israel is an apartheid state. By supporting Hamas and its ally the Palestinian Authority, Obama and Kerry have threatened the lives of Jews around the world in the name of human rights for terrorists.

He doesn’t realize Gaza is occupied by terrorist Hamas intent on killing Israeli children until they destroy the Jewish state. Kerry thinks Tweeting will stop the Russian war on the Ukraine. America is without a foreign policy at a dangerous time.

Obama and Kerry sit on their hands as international cyberattacks proliferate raising security costs for U.S. corporations and small businesses, and prices for consumers. They allow cyberterrorists to steal national security data and threaten the White House, NATO, the National Security Agency, the Defense Department and other government agencies.

Due to Obama’s total inaction, the U.S. is great risk of a crippling cyber doomsday, a day when there is no Internet. The president gets tough on nuclear enabled North Korea for hacking a worthless Hollywood film, while he does nothing to prevent such attacks on the national security of our nation and military, diplomatic and industrial assets abroad.

Our country is leaderless on security. Voters realized this in November and voted for change in Congress. Voters want Congress to reverse the leaderless Obama administration with strategies to prevent the continued decline of the United States that Obama is helpless to address

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Both Obama and Kerry refused to participate in the Paris rally for liberty in the wake of radical Islamic terror attacks on press freedom. What are their priorities? They won’t participate with the civilized world by declaring war on radical Islam. What are their values? They are inviting more vicious killings of journalists and freedom loving people around the world by doing nothing.

Americans, including this writer, symbolically voted for an African American president in hopes he could lead our country nationally and internationally and that he could put to rest lingering racial issues. Racial tensions are greater today than in the 1960’s. The world is on the brink of disaster.

The Obama administration is asleep. The president doesn’t want to wake up until his term is over so he can proclaim his great single accomplishment: Being the nation’s first African American president. His record is void of any substantive accomplishments.

Congress has considerable work to do bring our nation back from the brink of Obama’s multiple leadership disasters. I am confident Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), and the growing rank of Democrats disgusted by what Obama has done to our country and the globe can reverse course.

Congress must realize Obama is no longer relevant. He has wasted his opportunity to lead. He has lost the confidence of the American people and world leaders. It is Congress that must lead.

In 1980 presidential candidate Ronald Reagan debating President Jimmy Carter while the economy was in shambles with record unemployment, record interest rates, and with our nation seen as an international laughingstock, told America he was a leader who had a plan to bring the country back. Recovery, candidate Reagan told the American people, is when Jimmy Carter loses his job.

President Reagan delivered on his promises. Obama has failed.

Congress must act immediately to secure our country from further cyberattacks and threats to Americans and assets at home and abroad. But real security will not be restored until Obama loses his security badge to enter the White House. That day cannot come too soon.

Patterson, a former Washington diplomat, is a San Francisco-based writer and speaker.

And there's this....

This Is Obama’s Last Foreign Policy Chance

The failure of Obama or Biden to show up in Paris made clear that most of the president’s team can’t be trusted to conduct U.S national security policy and must be replaced—at once.

Here’s why America’s failure to be represented at the Paris unity march was so profoundly disturbing. It wasn’t just because President Obama’s or Vice President Biden’s absence was a horrendous gaffe. More than this, it demonstrated beyond argument that the Obama team lacks the basic instincts and judgment necessary to conduct U.S. national security policy in the next two years. It’s simply too dangerous to let Mr. Obama continue as is—with his current team and his way of making decisions. America, its allies, and friends could be heading into one of the most dangerous periods since the height of the Cold War.

Mr. Obama will have to excuse most of his inner core, especially in the White House. He will have to replace them with strong and strategic people of proven foreign policy experience. He’ll also need to seed the Defense and State Departments with new top people serving directly as senior advisers to the secretaries. And he also will need to set up regular consultations—not the usual phony ones—with the two key Senate leaders in this field, Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker and Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain, two people who can really improve his decisions and bolster his credibility. Many will be tempted to dismiss these crash solutions as several bridges too far, as simply unrealistic. But hear me out. It can be made much more plausible than it seems at first blush. What’s more, if Mr. Obama doesn’t do something along the lines of what’s proposed here, he and we are in for unmanageable trouble.

http://www.thedailyb...icy-chance.html

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You can stick your head in the ground, ostrich style, all you want. These are about as far away from TEA party voices as you'll find, and even THEY are stunned at the overt show of incompetence on display here.

Your mocking and apparent lack of concern are telling of the most useful of idiots for this admin and its policies.

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Lack of concern? Negative Skippy. You keep getting caught up false outrages on issues like this and I'll live in the real word; where thousands of intelligence specialists work their a@@es of everyday to ensure we are secure.

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"The utter failure of the Obama administration can be measures in so many ways" - Great start! Typo, grammatical error in the first sentence. Truly professional.

"Obama and Kerry sit on their hands as international cyberattacks proliferate raising security costs for U.S. corporations and small businesses, and prices for consumers. They allow cyberterrorists to steal national security data and threaten the White House, NATO, the National Security Agency, the Defense Department and other government agencies." :-\

"Due to Obama’s total inaction, the U.S. is great risk of a crippling cyber doomsday, a day when there is no Internet."

"Racial tensions are greater today than in the 1960’s."

"The world is on the brink of disaster."

Is the sky really falling?

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Plenty of sand and willing ostrich to go around...

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Lack of concern? Negative Skippy. You keep getting caught up false outrages on issues like this and I'll live in the real word; where thousands of intelligence specialists work their a@@es of everyday to ensure we are secure.

I must have missed the memo which declared YOU the arbiter of what is or isn't a legitimate issue. " Outrage " ? So, merely pointing out that those on both the Left AND Right are none too pleased with the lack of competency of this President is a show of "OUTRAGE " ?

Wow.

What did you think of the Occupy Movement ? Mild, polite and respectful show of a difference of opinion ? You're looking through rose colored binoculars, not glasses.

And why are you so touchy ? You really don't think that criticism of the Prez and his actions is any reflection on you or your branch of the military , do you ?

You shouldn't. If anything, our military are viewed as doing a great job in spite of, not because of , our current commander OF chief.

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Is the sky really falling?

BREAKING NEWS: Anti-terror raid in Belgian town centre 'leaves two dead after 10-minute gun battle with Islamic State cell sent back to carry out attacks on Europe'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2912037/Anti-terror-raid-Belgian-town-centre-leaves-three-dead.html#ixzz3OvAzZj1M

No. Go back to sleep.

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Lack of concern? Negative Skippy. You keep getting caught up false outrages on issues like this and I'll live in the real word; where thousands of intelligence specialists work their a@@es of everyday to ensure we are secure.

I must have missed the memo which declared YOU the arbiter of what is or isn't a legitimate issue. " Outrage " ? So, merely pointing out that those on both the Left AND Right are none too pleased with the lack of competency of this President is a show of "OUTRAGE " ?

Wow.

What did you think of the Occupy Movement ? Mild, polite and respectful show of a difference of opinion ? You're looking through rose colored binoculars, not glasses.

And why are you so touchy ? You really don't think that criticism of the Prez and his actions is any reflection on you or your branch of the military , do you ?

You shouldn't. If anything, our military are viewed as doing a great job in spite of, not because of , our current commander OF chief.

Why am I touchy? Huh? Because I'm tired of fighting idiotic wars approved by a an ideological, misinformed public who is more freaking concerned about whether or not this President went to Paris for a dog and pony show, void of any substance rather than our policy in counterinsurgent and counterterrorism operations. Mmmmkay?

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Oh and further why I'm sooooooo touchy. When we do return home from these idiotic wars and then try to pass bills to combat rampant suicides, we have people like you harp on them as to their costs or redundancy.

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So, the fact that inside the beltway , Leftist supporters of Obama, who voted for him, are now calling him out as being incompetent... none of that is in the least bit " worthy " of a political forum ?

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Lack of concern? Negative Skippy. You keep getting caught up false outrages on issues like this and I'll live in the real word; where thousands of intelligence specialists work their a@@es of everyday to ensure we are secure.

I must have missed the memo which declared YOU the arbiter of what is or isn't a legitimate issue. " Outrage " ? So, merely pointing out that those on both the Left AND Right are none too pleased with the lack of competency of this President is a show of "OUTRAGE " ?

Wow.

What did you think of the Occupy Movement ? Mild, polite and respectful show of a difference of opinion ? You're looking through rose colored binoculars, not glasses.

And why are you so touchy ? You really don't think that criticism of the Prez and his actions is any reflection on you or your branch of the military , do you ?

You shouldn't. If anything, our military are viewed as doing a great job in spite of, not because of , our current commander OF chief.

Why am I touchy? Huh? Because I'm tired of fighting idiotic wars approved by a an ideological, misinformed public who is more freaking concerned about whether or not this President went to Paris for a dog and pony show, void of any substance rather than our policy in counterinsurgent and counterterrorism operations. Mmmmkay?

AU, you signed the contract buddy; just like I did. At that point you became a tool of US foreign policy...frankly, it's a little late to start second guessing that decision. Surely you knew that going in...
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Lack of concern? Negative Skippy. You keep getting caught up false outrages on issues like this and I'll live in the real word; where thousands of intelligence specialists work their a@@es of everyday to ensure we are secure.

I must have missed the memo which declared YOU the arbiter of what is or isn't a legitimate issue. " Outrage " ? So, merely pointing out that those on both the Left AND Right are none too pleased with the lack of competency of this President is a show of "OUTRAGE " ?

Wow.

What did you think of the Occupy Movement ? Mild, polite and respectful show of a difference of opinion ? You're looking through rose colored binoculars, not glasses.

And why are you so touchy ? You really don't think that criticism of the Prez and his actions is any reflection on you or your branch of the military , do you ?

You shouldn't. If anything, our military are viewed as doing a great job in spite of, not because of , our current commander OF chief.

Why am I touchy? Huh? Because I'm tired of fighting idiotic wars approved by a an ideological, misinformed public who is more freaking concerned about whether or not this President went to Paris for a dog and pony show, void of any substance rather than our policy in counterinsurgent and counterterrorism operations. Mmmmkay?

AU, you signed the contract buddy; just like I did. At that point you became a tool of US foreign policy...frankly, it's a little late to start second guessing that decision. Surely you knew that going in...

I'm completely aware that I'm an agent of the state but that's not reason for my post above. I am concerned of an out of touch public, degrading civil-military relationship and rise of a warrior class.

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I'd say our commander is out of touch, and not so much the Public.

"If I were writing such a history now, I would call it Chickenhawk Nation, based on the derisive term for those eager to go to war, as long as someone else is going. It would be the story of a country willing to do anything for its military except take it seriously. As a result, what happens to all institutions that escape serious external scrutiny and engagement has happened to our military. Outsiders treat it both too reverently and too cavalierly, as if regarding its members as heroes makes up for committing them to unending, unwinnable missions and denying them anything like the political mindshare we give to other major public undertakings, from medical care to public education to environmental rules. The tone and level of public debate on those issues is hardly encouraging. But for democracies, messy debates are less damaging in the long run than letting important functions run on autopilot, as our military essentially does now. A chickenhawk nation is more likely to keep going to war, and to keep losing, than one that wrestles with long-term questions of effectiveness." http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/12/the-tragedy-of-the-american-military/383516/
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it France who refused to stand with us after 9/11?

I believe they get it now.

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Water under the bridge...the instant we went to the volunteer force, the rise of the warrior class was a fait accompli. It was discussed at length at the time...it was adopted as a matter of policy. Only way to reverse that is to bring back the draft.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it France who refused to stand with us after 9/11?

France fully supported our efforts in Afghanistan. They started when we did by deploying Mirage fighters in late 2011. I think they peaked with about 4k troops...had 88 killed in Afghanistan. They started drawing down forces in 2011.

The "I am Charlie" posters are a take on the post 9/11 issue of Le Monde, they ran a headline reading, “We Are All Americans.”

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Is the sky really falling?

BREAKING NEWS: Anti-terror raid in Belgian town centre 'leaves two dead after 10-minute gun battle with Islamic State cell sent back to carry out attacks on Europe'

Read more: http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz3OvAzZj1M

No. Go back to sleep.

Clearly the fault of Obama and the evil leftists. :-\

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I'd say our commander is out of touch, and not so much the Public.

"If I were writing such a history now, I would call it Chickenhawk Nation, based on the derisive term for those eager to go to war, as long as someone else is going. It would be the story of a country willing to do anything for its military except take it seriously. As a result, what happens to all institutions that escape serious external scrutiny and engagement has happened to our military. Outsiders treat it both too reverently and too cavalierly, as if regarding its members as heroes makes up for committing them to unending, unwinnable missions and denying them anything like the political mindshare we give to other major public undertakings, from medical care to public education to environmental rules. The tone and level of public debate on those issues is hardly encouraging. But for democracies, messy debates are less damaging in the long run than letting important functions run on autopilot, as our military essentially does now. A chickenhawk nation is more likely to keep going to war, and to keep losing, than one that wrestles with long-term questions of effectiveness." http://www.theatlant...ilitary/383516/

Hey you get a recognition for a couple of minutes during the half at football games. What more could you want? :dunno:

;)

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it France who refused to stand with us after 9/11?

No. They did stand with us.

http://mobile.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2007/05/23/nous-sommes-tous-americains_913706_3232.html#meter_toaster

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2003/09/bushs_many_miscalculations.html

They didn't support invading Iraq since it was unrelated to 9/11.

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