Graveyard of Empires, Part Throis

Well, there u have it. We're in it for now, then, to leave as specified in a series of troop withdrawals, announced to the Taliban by President Obama in his White House speech.

As a youth, my civil studies teacher patiently explained that in war, a person publishing (as the means to send to the enemy) the scheduled sailing dates for our troop transport ships had committed treason. Making public such war fighting plans empowered the enemy to alter its own war making plans in order to counter our now known military intentions.

Now, slow down U-all, in no way, explicit or implicit, am I accusing the President of any kind of war crime. Nonetheless, I am seeking greater insight into what national security interest is advanced by telling the Taliban how long they need to hide out in Pakistan before its safe to return to again terrorize Afghanistan.

Also, be assured that were I to be the President, we would have left Afghanistan in 2002, after having accomplished the only vital national security objective permissible in the use of lethal military power - terminating with extreme prejudice the al-Qaeda terrorists responsible for the 911 attacks and their territorial protectors. Now, a decade later, a half a trillion dollars of national treasure spent and the loss of thousands of young American military service personnel, all in the name of the nation building chimera, we are left with but two questions: (1) - what is the name of the last Afghan villager who will cooperate with the remaining (short term visiting only) American troops before being the first murdered by the Taliban as our guys wave from their departing helicopter, and (2) - what is the name of the American military person, now in high school or in basic training, who will be the last combat casualty in this debacle, now scheduled publicly to grind on until 2014/15. Both the Afghanistan populace and our American military heroes deserve better than this bitter pill of the false promise of nation building where only warring tribes have existed for ten thousand years.

When A Good Man Dies Needlessly, Who Cares?

I don't know anything much about the short life of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. Nor do I suspect, do you. Regrettably, none of us will ever have the opportunity to meet Brian to thank him for his service to the nation. Brian is now dead, murdered near Nogalis, Arizona by a Mexican Drug Cartel gang member using an automatic weapon sold to the Cartel's "strawman" purchaser weeks earlier by the ATF's cooperating gun dealer helping to trace illegal firearm shipments to Mexico. What we do know is Brian Terry was a hero, respected by his peers in law enforcement, and a good friend to everyone he knew in his personal life. Thirdly, we know that the murder of Brian Terry was facilitated by the criminal negligence of high level officials in the federal government.

We can not identify the specific ATF/Main Justice/U.S. Attorney's Office individuals guilty in the death of Brian Terry, because the Obama Administration is more than patiently awaiting the results of an internal Department of Justice I.G. investigation, which could drag on for months, or until just a few days after the November 2012 elections. My anger, my outrage, my demand for accountability and justice will not wait for this cover up to inevitably unravel.

Were President Obama a true leader, a decisive executive in charge of the executive branch of government, he would be even more exercised than me, as this utterly reckless fiasco happened on his inattentive watch. Probably the most damning criticism of Mr. Obama is for his utter detachment; he appears to all the world not to be affected by any of the nation's troubles and indifferent to the immense difficulties of our citizenry, millions of millions struggling to keep hold of their jobs and homes from foreclosure. Unlike Bubba Clinton, 'Barry' never seems to feel our pain, either collectively or individually. I mean, would any President with the common sense God gave a rock, laugh out loud about having been fooled about "shovel ready jobs" that didn't actually exist. Please!

Let me say this - I do not condemn President Obama, due to any political partisanship. I want MY PRESIDENT, OUR ONLY PRESIDENT to succeed; after all he holds our nation's very future safety in his hands. To succeed, any President must demand accountability in his Administration, such that all federal branch executives know that real mistakes will have real consequences. I guarantee U every other Democratic President in my lifetime - Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Clinton (ok, not Jimmy Carter) would have had on his Oval Office Desk before nightfall on the day of Brian Terry's funeral, the resignations of the entire top brass of the ATF for failing to prevent this completely avoidable tragedy. So, to President Obama, I say unequivocally - take charge of your own destiny, as the destiny of a great nation demands it.

Literally, Sir, lives hang in the balance, should you show all Americans that You do care that a good man died needlessly.

Defining Deviance Down, like to Rock Bottom

What to make of this guy Weiner, or for that matter, this guy's weiner? I'm sorry, sort of, but really. Congressman (for now) Weiner is the butt of every successful comedians' sorry ass jokes, so despite my elevated rhetorical platform - rarely if ever devoted to humor - who among U can blame me? Don't respond Georgette!

Much more to this Blog's point, its reason for existence even, is the impact this perverted weasel's misconduct has on the public weal. In short, not good! Many of my prior Posts have observed that the current Administration seems devoid of a single adult in the room, a serious minded person in charge who puts the nation's interests only into his/her calculations as to the proper course to set for the country. Weiner's imbecile sextings demonstrate the focus of a child obsessed with his physical, mental and social inadequacies. The nation is beset with multiple challenges, verging on economic crises, and one of the Congressional leaders for the President's party spends untold hours engaged in computer sex! As a result of this debasement of his office, Anthony Weiner has been neutered, castrated even (oh did I mention the blatant lying to everyone he purportedly cares about - family, wife, friends, party, public and press.)

So, with Weiner's credibility, and thus public service effectiveness, destroyed, what possible motivation exists for liberals to defend him. Got me; thus, I will let a leading spokesperson state his own case for keeping A.W. in the House (not his, of course): "Excuse me for asking, but why exactly should Anthony Weiner resign? He FLIRTED with women in a crude, dorky and easily traceable way." (Emphasis added); Peter Beinart, The Daily Beast, 6/13/11.

I may be a senior citizen; nonetheless, I know flirting when I see it, and AW blew by that nomenclature by the second keystroke to his ever expanding gaggle of beauties. Flirting is the least conceivable description a commentator concerned about his own credibility would use regarding Weiner's despicably salacious and purient pornographic images. For anyone to assert that any responsible adult could do what Weiner did and keep his job as a national leader must either hate America or have absolutely no sense of decency whatsoever. We, as a body politic, must repudiate Weiner and Beinart unequivocably or risk having our once great nation run be sexual predators. Not acceptable, so long as I have a humble voice.

Why the Falklands Still Matter

The World is convulsed in violent turmoil, with political conflict spilling innocent blood by the bucket full in so many countries that the world's only Super Power can not stem the onslaught. To fill this vacuum, the President turned Libya over to N.A.T.O. only to discover that the welfare states of western Europe long ago turned their swords into plows. Madman Kaddafi surfaces every week or so to taunt his impotent adversaries, lead by Great Britain and France, and trailed oh so timidly by Germany. Tyrants and dictators around the globe watch these events with wide-eyed interest and plan accordingly. Should there be a single loyal listener among our Elite membership who believes that any potential aggressor states see any reason for caution or feel deterred due to the exercise of "smart power" by the Administration, I will stop blogging tomorrow.

That said, last week's explicit support by the United States for a Resolution, which was adopted by the Organization of American States, demanding that Great Britain start negotiations with Argentina "over the future governance of the Malvina Islands" is still a stunner of historic proportions. In 1982, with no pretense of just cause or legal right, Argentina invaded the sparsely populated Falklands to build domestic support for its floundering military junta. The certainty of the absence of any legal or moral justification for this naked aggression is found in the historical fact that at no time in history had Argentina ruled these two islands, except for a two year period in the Nineteenth Century, and fewer than three dozen Argentinians ever lived there on a permanent basis - none since 1900. The current residents unanimously reject any proposals for union with or formal association of any kind with Argentina.

Now, with Britain's military shrunk to a level that is absolutely incapable of defeating one insane Colonel in Tripoli, let alone mount a serious defense of the Falklands, the President weighs in in support of the murderers of hundreds of Brit soldiers, sailors and farmers. So much for preserving the "Special Relationship" with our nation's oldest and most reliable Ally. What must the governments in London, Buenos Aires, Tehran and Jerusalem be thinking this morning? Without doubt, the conclusion that every dangerous country, as well as America's few remaining allies, has been compelled to come to by this atrocious betrayal is that the United States is perfidious, untrustworthy and in lock step with Third World tyrants, and not the bulwark of the defense of western values, which has sustained liberty and freedom world-wide since the outbreak of WWI. Were I to be living on East Falkland Island today, this afternoon my sheep are learning how to fire automatic weapons, since the Marines will not be coming to our rescue any time soon.