The Shiny New Thing
Wasting Time And Money In The Mid-East – Hind Sight Is 20/20 But Obama Still Can’t See It
Not surprising is the fact the Iraqi military has retreated in the face of an insurgency even with a 10 to 1 advantage.
This is what you see going on with the Iraqi army. None of them have loyalty to Iraq. Their first loyalty is to their family, followed by the extended family of the village and tribe. Sectarian loyalty is as far as it goes and even there it is frayed. Followers of one Imam may detest the followers of another, despite both being in the same sect. The Iraqi soldiers are not going to fight and die for something that does not exist, unless they have a bayonet in their back, as was the case under Saddam.
One would think the military would take advantage of the technology and training, but as witnessed in Afghanistan, the leaders have no interest other than lining their own pockets. Karzai and Maliki are cut from the same cloth, both corrupt politicians bilking the west out of billions…and we continue to pay.
The other interesting thing is all of this was predictable. The American military spent billions designing and training a military for Iraq along western lines. The trouble is they left an Arab culture that is still an Arab culture. Eventually you end up with the same old half-assed Arab army with a bunch of American gear they can barely operate. A guy named Norvell B. De Atkine wrote about this 15 years ago in a paper called Why Arabs Lose Wars. While he tried hard to inoculate himself, the author can’t help but notice the reason Arab countries are as we find them is they are full of Arabs. keep reading
IRS Emails Impossible To Be “Accidently” Destroyed
Seems fairly obvious to me that this thing just gets dirtier as things go along. Another damn hearing isn’t going to solve the problem. You must bring criminal charges against Lerner and put her in front of a jury, if she chooses to plead the fifth then the jury can decide her fate. These stupid hearings have done nothing, IRS, Benghazi, Fast & Furious, The VA and nothing….nothing has come from the hearings except a bunch of politicians feign fake outrage and after, assume their job is done. Ridiculous.
Not that there was any doubt, but a Department of Justice lawyer has anonymously contacted Powerline Blog to say why the IRS claim about losing emails because of a computer crash is “laughable”:
I’m a DOJ lawyer, so you obviously cannot use my name or any identifying information. But the idea that a “hard drive crash” somehow destroyed all of Ms. Lerner’s intra-government email correspondence during the period in question [2009-2011] is laughable. Government email servers are backed up every night. So if she actually had a hard drive fail, her emails would be recoverable from the backup. If the backup was somehow also compromised, then we are talking about a conspiracy.
Keep up the good work.
He reiterates in a postscript:
I’m serious about your keeping any identifying information out of the media. Things are very, very bad.
Elections Have Consequences
“That record has been extraordinarily lacking and ineffective,” Romney said Friday. “It is hard to think of a place in the world where our foreign policy interests were enhanced by virtue of her serving as secretary of State. And the eruption of challenges throughout the world just underscores the ineffectiveness of the foreign policy of the Obama administration, of which she was obviously a key part.”
Wasted Trillions, Wasted Lives, Wasted Wars, Wasted Six Years
What happens when you elect a community organizer with no experience in anything other than organizing against perceived injustices of the world? Nothing good.
In light of the unfolding disaster in Iraq, which is linked to the unfolding disaster in Syria, which is part of a broader failure in the Middle East, which is only one part of an across-the-board failure in foreign policy, which is separate from the failures at home–including healthcare.gov and ObamaCare more broadly, chronically high unemployment, the stimulus and “shovel ready jobs,” a historically weak economic recovery, the lowest workforce participation rate since the 1970s, increasing income inequality, and record poverty–the following needs to be said. Even those of us who were highly critical of Mr. Obama early on, who twice voted against him and worked in campaigns to defeat him, could not envision how epically incompetent he would be.
The harm this man has done is immeasurable. And he still has more than two years left to go.
Idiocy 101
The Obama Regime has zero idea what it’s doing.
The fall of Iraq and our equipment now in the hands of ISIS (Al Qaida).
The equipment is reportedly being taken to Syria to fight Assad’s forces.
I guess this generation now knows how it felt for Vietnam vets as they watched Saigon fall. History is repeating itself.
The Lies Of Benghazi
With all the scandals surrounding the Obama administration, one would think they create one to dismiss the other. When you tell a lie, you must continue to lie to cover the original sin.
Obama Is Delusional
I guess if you tell a lie enough times you begin to believe it yourself. But this statement shows how far this man will go to deceive the American public. There is nobody with a half a brain that thinks the world is less violent. ISIS, Al Qaeda, Taliban, Drug Cartels, Boko Harem, blah, blah, blah you name it they are killing at a pace never seen before. So for him to make the statement below is delusional.
At a White House event on Wednesday Obama took questions from Tumblr users.
But this country has always been built both through an individual initiative, but also a sense of some common purpose. And if there’s one message I want to deliver to young people like a Tumblr audience is, don’t get cynical. Guard against cynicism. I mean, the truth of the matter is that for all the challenges we face, all the problems that we have, if you had to be — if you had to choose any moment to be born in human history, not knowing what your position was going to be, who you were going to be, you’d choose this time. The world is less violent than it has ever been. It is healthier than it has ever been. It is more tolerant than it has ever been. It is better fed then it’s ever been. It is more educated than it’s ever been. keep reading
Rand Pauls Mistake
I like Rand Paul I really do, I also wonder how much his dads fanatical libertarian views would effect him if he were elected President, which makes his stance on immigration reform even more puzzling.
Mr. Cantor was the second high-profile Republican to suffer political damage by stepping forward on the immigration issue. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, another potential presidential contender, lost the support of his tea party base when he advocated a plan for immigration that some argued created a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
Mr. Paul, a longtime favorite of the tea party movement, has made it clear that he believes Congress needs the courage to enact immigration reform. But his latest effort pushed him further into the middle of a strident battle between establishment Republicans like Mr. Norquist who see immigration reform as essential to economic growth, and tea party activists who fear the current efforts in Congress will only lead to de facto amnesty for illegal immigrants.
In fairness to Paul, he is in the blob now which means he has lost touch with the English language. Outside the bubble everyone understands that “immigration reform” means amnesty and open borders. We’re not idiots. The same is true of “path to citizenship.” The phrase “temporary guest worker” means giant loophole for business to hire Hindus to take your job.
Inside the bubble, clones like Paul wrestle with the nuances of these terms as if they have real distinctions. He could also be suffering from Washingtonitis, where the otherwise sensible politicians begins to think the people trust and value his opinion. That’s when they stop representing their constituents to Washington and begin representing Washington to their constituents.
Whether it is ideology or stupidity, Rand Paul just Cantored himself. found here
Immigration Reform
