April 29, 2009
Something Stupid This Way Comes
Micheal Scheuer plays with fire:
Surprisingly, Obama now stands alongside Bush as a genuine American Jacobin, both of them seeing the world as they want it to be, not as it is. Whereas Bush saw a world of Muslims yearning to betray their God for Western secularism, Obama gazes upon a globe that he regards as largely carnivore-free and believes that remaining threats can be defused by semantic warfare; just stop saying "War on Terror" and give talks in Turkey and on al-Arabiyah television, for example.Americans should be clear on what Obama has done. In a breathtaking display of self-righteousness and intellectual arrogance, the president told Americans that his personal beliefs are more important than protecting their country, their homes and their families. The interrogation techniques in question, the president asserted, are a sign that Americans have lost their "moral compass," a compliment similar to Attorney General Eric Holder's identifying them as "moral cowards." Mulling Obama's claim, one can wonder what could be more moral for a president than doing all that is needed to defend America and its citizens? Or, asked another way, is it moral for the president of the United States to abandon intelligence tools that have saved the lives and property of Americans and their allies in favor of his own ideological beliefs?
Barack Obama is graciously willing to bet your life on his ideology, a matter of breath-taking arrogance, immaturity, and intellectual desolation, but a position we've come to recognize as his status quo.
Scheuer stops just short of stating that Obama is immoral or amoral; perhaps to avoid inflaming those who would see the President's willingness to purposefully gamble "the loss of major cities and tens of thousands of countrymen" as justification for what Obama's mentors would have glibly described in younger days as "direct action."
It is a dangerous rhetorical game he suggests, and one that other loose cannons may be emboldened to parrot with every dangerous move this incompetent Administration makes.
Loose cannons. and loose canons, a dangerous combination.
Posted by: Bill Smith at April 30, 2009 07:12 AMObama reminds me of a line from an old fantasy book. One of the characters asks the princess how her elderly father is. Her reply is that he is doing well, except for delusional periods where he thinks nobody is trying to kill him. Obama is simply delusional 24/7.
Posted by: Tregonsee at April 30, 2009 08:45 AMI am reminded of a line from a fantasy I once read. One of the characters asks the princess how her elderly father is. Her reply is that he is doing well, except for delusional periods when he thinks nobody is trying to kill him. Obama is delusional 24/7.
Posted by: Tregonsee at April 30, 2009 08:48 AMIt gets even worse Obama and company are about giving hints they will allow prosecutions overseas here is what AG Holder said during his visit to Europe in reference to a question about aiding a Spanish judge's investigation:
"Obviously, we would look at any request that would come from a court in any country and see how and whether we should comply with it," Holder said.
"This is an administration that is determined to conduct itself by the rule of law and to the extent that we receive lawful requests from an appropriately created court, we would obviously respond to it," he said.
Pressed on whether that meant the United States would cooperate with a foreign court prosecuting Bush administration officials, Holder said he was talking about evidentiary requests, and would review any such request to see if the U.S. would comply.
And it gets worse here is a
link to an ABC news story outing two psychiatrists who were contracted by the CIA to craft the enhanced interrogation techniques program. Think Obama and Holder will be in any hurry to find out who leaked this to ABC? These Patriots will have a bulls eye on them and their family members for the rest of their lives.I have no doubt that sooner rather than later we will see show trials of Bush and others from his Admin either here in the United Stated or overseas in places like Spain, some have suggested it is quid pro quo in exchange for the Euro's taking Gitmo detainee's.
I don't know how Scheuer slipped through the cracks, but he's been scheduled for a symbiot implant on Saturday. I've been assured this kind of lapse won't happen again with him.
Posted by: PA at May 1, 2009 04:27 AMI see many of the critics missing the boat in their criticism.
They chalk Obama's moves up to inexperience - naivety - some simplistic idea of making them like us.
I think this misses the boat:
When you see Bill Ayers in Venezuela being buddy-buddy with Chavez - or Sean Penn - when you see Rev. Wright doing it with Kadafi ---
--- to you get the impression they are just trying to win those guys over with kindness?
No. They go there and do those things to show solidarity. When they apologize profusely for American wrongs - it isn't some rhetorical ploy to win new friends --- it is an effort to convince Americans that the US has been more wrong than right --- and that it is the US who must change to make the world better - not Libya, Venezuela, Cuba, and so on....
If you were expecting to see Obama following his radical roots in his first 100 days --- you would have penciled in such items as we have seen.
Posted by: usinkorea at May 1, 2009 09:16 PMA puppet need not be intelligent. It merely needs be able to present its masters words.
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