By Steve Hynd
If it had been Bush, the Left would've fucking crucified him every time a U.S. soldier died in combat after the end of "combat operations". I don't see why Obama should get a free pass unless we've given up on our principles.
Two American soldiers were killed and nine were wounded on Tuesday when a firefight erupted inside an Iraqi Army base north of Baghdad, American and Iraqi officials said. They were the first American casualties since President Obama declared an official end to the United States combat mission in Iraq a week ago.
I don't know whether to hope Obama came up with the "end of combat ops" bullshit on his own so we can at least admit that he's not at all a principled man - just another lying politico using progressives for their votes - or hope that he was bamboozled into that bit of idiocy by "serious people" like Rahm, the Pentagon and Shillary - in which case he'd be an easily led, lying politico.
But I'm fucking disgusted either way by how few of the Left - "professional" or otherwise - seem to feel the way I do and be willing to say so.
Hi Steve,
ReplyDeleteWhile you and I disagree philosophically on a number of issues, I have to say that you consistently stick with your principles.
Rare quality in these times.
Thanks, Zen.
ReplyDeleteRegards, Steve
You're disgusted with the lack of criticism over the labeling acrobatics of the 50,000 'non-combat' troops remaining in Iraq now? That probably ain't nothing compared to what will happen at the end of 2011 when these troops are supposed to have left the country.
ReplyDeleteSuddenly the largest embassy in the world will need a country-wide security perimeter and thousands of 'police agents' in military uniforms and with heavy gear to protect it. And the Left will aquiesce in order not to impact Obama's reelection chances in the face of an incessant Republican onslaught of congressional subpoenas.
I understand the dismay with the Obama gang's complete ineptness regards to communicating anything. "Hope & Change", aka maintaining the status quo, seemed to have been the only euphemism they could master, though it may have required an accessible [euphemism for gullible or fed-up with bs] crowd to succeed. As I've thought for sometime now, Obama et gang read - I wonder if they actually do it. Read that is. - the wrong books for the situation they have painted themselves into. In concocting crapola for military shenanigans it might have been useful for them to remember some of WWIIs all time great euphemisms & build on them, of course, in a less pompous rhetorical fashion than the usual Obama holy holy pontification.
ReplyDeleteIn this regard a useful reference for them would be page 147 of Paul Fussell's book Wartime -Understanding and behaviour in WWII:
http://bit.ly/d6JVXS
My all time favourite is "mopping up" though I'm not sure if modern readers or readers in the select Obama gang would know what mopping actually means never having actually witnesses any manual labour let alone under taken any.
People on the left still have trouble reconciling the seemingly caring candidate with the coldly realpolitik president. Obama may not have much going for him anymore, but he's still got cognitive dissonance on his side.
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