In this hilariously hyperventilated HuffPo post (is there any other kind?), Tom Andrews proves, well: Imbecilic.
Embedded in General Stanley McChrystal’s classified assessment of the war in Afghanistan is his conclusion that a successful counterinsurgency strategy will require 500,000 troops over five years…
Would you prefer to have a president who doesn’t shift strategy when he gets this kind of ground troop from the commanders?
Right question. And the answer is: NO!
Which is 100,000 troops per year on a rotational basis, roughly 40,000 more than we have on deck currently, and approximately the number that General Stan McChrystal is expected to request.
The Army only has 548,000 total personnel. The Marine Corps another 200k or so.
Can people really be this stupid and still have access to a keyboard?
Yes, Tom Andrews most certainly can. I have met this man a several occasions. He’s a great talker, and a lousy walker. he lost his seat in Congress because, well, he didn’t DO anything in Congress. Someone pointed out that you would be hard pressed to find a single piece of legislation that he authored or co-authored the entire time he was in DC. He supported a few things, but mostly showed up, hung around, and talked a good game of political BS.
That he would author this piece of cr@p is not surprising. What I would suggest, and that with all seriousness, is he was given this article to put his name to, or at least a few talking points and told to get it out there. Andrews is a do-nothing leftist, from the left side of left. He wants the face time, he adores the attention, but like most of them, he can’t actually DO anything.
Tom Andrews is intellectually naive, and way outside of his pay grade with this article. however, it’s what we expected in Maine when he was elected, and pretty much what we got from him for his entire time in Washington.
rhetorical question, right?
“Can people really be this stupid and still have access to a keyboard?” Boss, spend more time with Huffpo or Kos or some others for the clear answer to this question. But be sure to wear and continually check your “stupidity exposure indicator” while doing so to avoid headaches.
What I’d like to know is, what is “…this kind of ground troop“? Marine or Army? Infantry, armor, or whatever?
More proof that AW1 is right — this guy is a moron, who didn’t even read this before he submitted it. Or, he is so clueless that he can pass judgement on the right course in a war, when he doesn’t even recognize that there is no such thing, in this context, as a “ground troop”.
“access to a keyboard?”
Worse than that Skipper. Access to a ballot box. =8-0
the comments to the post are filled with comparisons to Vietnam, despite the fact that even with a surge to 100,000 troops, it’s still less than 20% of the forces serving in Vietnam at the height of that conflict.
The man is out of his depth, as I would expect him to be anywhere the sidewalk was wet.
Elections have consequences. Deal.
– Max
I haz keybordz.
I knew AW1 would be the first to post as soon as I saw “former Member of Congress, Maine”! But the keyword there is FORMER. Seriously what is all the fuss about? So the numbers don’t add up. Neither do the numbers add up for health care, debt reduction, clunkers for cash, stimulus, or “no, that is not a tax just because they have to pay”. It azin’t the looney left for nos reason.
I assume it’s a rhetorical question Sir, but feel compelled to answer it this way:
HuffPo. DailyKos. D.U.
Kris/
Oh, you mean the “don’t confuse me with the facts” crowd? What is truly amazing is the mental ju jitsu involved. The people who have actually READ things, e.g., the fine print in the health-care bill, are presumed to be the mis-informed bumpkins, while the DU/Kos crowd, along with the MSM condescendingly portray themselves as the “reality based” side in possession of the “true” facts–as if chanting the mantra of the chapter headings over and over were the equivalent of all the fine print that is subsumed thereunder.
VX – you got it. It’s more than they have no desire for facts. They have no desire to educate themselves on the facts – they spout their precious talking points and if that doesn’t get them what they want, they just scream racism or it’s Bush’s fault.
If it wasn’t so dangerous these days, I could see it as pathetic.
Virgil
I need to send you my locally produced “Just Say NO to BHO” bumper stickers!
It is both sad and funny.
Kind of like the “Monkey Watch” going through the STROG.
Can people really be this stupid and still have access to a keyboard?
In some cases, ‘keyboard’ and ‘stupid’ are actually a feedback loop.
Tom Andrews is living proof that there is no qualification in the United States Constitution for intelligence as a requirement for election to high office.
..and proof of Lincoln’s adage that “you can fool some of the people all of the time.” He depends on it.
Andrews wasn’t the first moron to sit in Congress. Or the last.
As you know Lex, don’t confuse the sheeple with facts. It will only make them nervous and confused. And given the fact that it takes intellectual effort to make sense of this stuff, most of them will not even try.
“…this hilariously hyperventilated HuffPo post….” is entirely redundant. HuffPo Post was a completely sufficient description that included the rest as incidental.
I can’t remember who described Congress as our only hereditary criminal class, but they were correct.
Scott,
Did you notice that the two shining examples you point out have a common denominator? They are both Georgia Democrats. Perhaps, they too, can aspire to winning a Nobel Prize.