Posted by
flagwaver on Thursday, November 12, 2009 1:29:20 PM
I was planning on doing a full-on, one issue post this week...I really was. But then the Fort Hood shooting happened, the Democrats passed their health-care bill in the House, Andre Agassi caused some serious upset in the genteel world of tennis, and our dear President Obama decided that his decision on Afghanistan is...to not make a decision. So I figured I would just hit on each of those topics in brief (more or less), and maybe a few more if they come to me.
First, what world do liberals live in? For anyone to say that they find the murders at Fort Hood incomprehensible is incomprehensible to me! Here you have a man, Major Nidal Hasan, who has telegraphed his adherence to a jihadist interpretation of Islam go on a shooting rampage on base at Fort Hood, in a readiness center full of unarmed troops either going to war or coming home, and their families...and liberals say they don't understand it. Well, I for one do understand it. It was an act of terrorism by Major Hasan, one in which he probably hoped to be martyred to his bloodthirsty version of Allah, and to say it was anything else is a travishamockery! He is the worst type of coward, as are all terrorists, because he deliberately targeted those he knew could not defend themselves against his attack. May he die a traitor's death for murdering, and attempting to murder, his brothers in arms.
But nearly as bad as the actual act of terror was the tepid response of out government to it. We have President Obama using the occasion to take not too subtle shots at the country while praising the troops; we are a nation that is cynical, selfish, etc. And we have Gen. George Casey bemoaning the fact that we have to create and maintain a "diverse" military, so we presumably should not hold it against the murdering Muslim that he fits the same general profile as the vast majority of terrorists that we deal with. And our Legacy Media is bending over backwards to make excuses for Hasan, and to warn America not to allow a conservative backlash against Muslims. Well guess what: we aren't interested in "persecuting" Muslims, but we are interested in destroying the dark forces arrayed against us. If they happen to be Muslim, so what?
In the midst of all this, Madame Pelosi (one of my top ten ugliest chicks alive...or dead) managed to get her health-care proposal rammed through the House. While she was all smiles afterwards, does anyone really think this bill has a snowball's chance of ever becoming law? When you have an overwhelming majority on your side, and you still need a Republican to vote with you...so you can win by F-I-V-E votes, that doesn't bode well for future prospects. The Senate doesn't have enough votes to break Joe Lieberman's threatened filibuster, and the House can barely pass any meaningful legislation so....the health-care debacle is likely DOA. For now.
After assembling his national security team for yet another jawboning session about Afghanistan, Mr. Obama has decided to...punt. He doesn't like any of the proposals put before him to consider, and refuses to make a decision on Gen. McChrystal's request for added troops to win "the good war". But what is to be expected when all the people advising the Novice-in-Chief are political hacks...including his Secretary of Defense, and the aforementioned Gen. Diversity, um...CASEY. He's even getting advice from that noted political thinker, and political general Colin Powell. Mr. Powell inveighs that the President should "take his time" making this decision, warns him not to be pushed by the left or the right, because this has tremendous implications for the remainder of his term. And this clown used to be a general for crying out loud! No Mr. Powell, and no Mr. Obama, this is not a decision about the rest of your term. It is a decision about the lives of the men we have sent to fight a war in a godforsaken, backwoods, hell-hole, in an effort to deny a safe haven to the very groups that conspired to attack us on September 11, 2001. It is about making sure that the blood and treasure spent in that conflict are not sacrificed on the altar of the Obama Political Altar, so that Obama can win electoral favor with the left. If you lack the will to fight and to see the fight through to victory, then "bug out" as the military parlance goes. But do not pretend to care about corruption in the Afghani government (as if our government is corruption free; see Murtha, Jack and Jefferson, William) or the recalcitrance of Hamid Karzai in allowing you to order him around like he's a member of our lapdog Legacy Media. At least be man enough to admit that you lack the will and inclination to finish the fight that they started, and bring our brave men and women home. That should give them time to rest and recuperate before we have to go right back into that region again, because when we pull out the jihadists will be coming after our soft underbelly, and they will try to finish us off. I just hope that when that day comes, we have someone in charge that understands that in war victory is all that matters, and electoral politics be damned!
On a lighter note, I am sure many of you have seen the media coverage of Andre Agassi's revelations in his new book Open. He admits to having used meth as a young man, tells of his virtual hatred of the sport of tennis, a game forced upon him by his Iranian immigrant father, and of tanking matches because he didn't want to play. What has surprised me more than anything is that all the tennis people seem to be focused on is his meth use and his saying he hated tennis. Martina Navratilova went off because he lied when he got caught using meth, not because he used the meth...but because he lied when he got caught! Hello! Who in their right mind is going to tell the organization that he works for that his failed drug test is correct, and that he was using meth? No one, especially if the organization doing the testing will believe a story that someone spiked his Gatorade with meth, and that's why he was positive! Shouldn't Marty Martina be more upset that the ATP bought the excuse equivalent of "The dog ate my homework"? As for people saying that you can't be good at something you hate, that's poppycock...especially in sports. Just last year Elena Delle Donne, a highly sought after female basketball player quit the game because she didn't like it anymore, mainly because of the pressure her parents put on her to play the game. Heck, when I worked in textiles I didn't particularly like my job, but I was the best at it because it paid the bills!
Finally, what was Oprah thinking the other day? I don't watch her show, but to have that lady who was mauled by the chimp show what was left of her face on national television was a bit much. But it did surprise me that Oprah didn't do her usual routine with her guests, where everything that has happened to them happened to her. I can just see Oprah saying, "I know how you feel Charla. My face is disfigured too because I was attacked by a squirrel wielding a gigantic ugly stick! He got me right in the face, and he made Michelle Obama look like James Brown! It was just horrible!"