And the tyrants of the world relax. It's like Henry V showing up at Agincourt and then running like the clappers.
Meanwhile, NATO is running out of ammunition.
Monday, 18 April 2011
Own goal
And the tyrants of the world relax. It's like Henry V showing up at Agincourt and then running like the clappers.
Meanwhile, NATO is running out of ammunition.
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I think Obama is "hoping" for a NATO collapse. Logically, if you see American influence on the world as inherently evil (which The One clearly does), then any American creation must be destroyed at all costs. And let's face it, NATO was mainly an American-led alliance, as Dr. Hanson correctly points out.
I strongly suspect Obama has the traditional "progressive" belief that "no armies= peace." Plus the one that "armies of countries who hate the evil West= peacekeepers." Seen in this light, his feckless "performance" here is not only explicable, it is something that should have been expected. He is simply being true to his beliefs.
As for the munitions problem, I find it somewhere between fascinating and annoying that, half-a-century down the road, the NATO alliance doesn't even have the degree of munitions interoperability that the RAF and USAAF had in 1945. "The bombs don't fit the racks" is not a phrase that "Bomber" Harris or "Hap" Arnold would have put up with hearing from their ordnance officers. At least not more than once.
After which somebody in the ordnance design/manufacture/supply pipeline, or indeed several such, would have been missing major pieces of their backsides.
cheers
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It is said in the nerd world: "Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence." The ideas behind our embarrassing behavior are all what the over-educated faculty lounge set considers good, and I occasionally see the very brainy Ph.D.s congratulating each other on what a smart man they've got running the country. For the origin of this poison, eon, look not to Barry Husseinovich, but to Comrade Gramsci and the KGB. Also, the origins of the characterization, "useful idiots".
Agincourt---wouldn't it be like Harry and his merry men showing up and noticing that they'd left all the arrows at Harfleur, in the previous act?
BHO is merely trying to appease his rabid base. Of course, the fact that a madman who is appealing to those who by any rational definition are insane has been granted so much power has an acronym: DOOM.
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