Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
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Yes, cruise missile strikes on empty terrorist camps. We have definitely seen this before.
Send one, and you warn them that in a few days you will send another. So they take a vacation.
OK…this guy is confusing me. Didn’t he run as the guy who would build consensus, ask opinions all the way around, not just launch strikes whenever the mood was on him? And now he has attacks going on in two countries that we are supposedly not at war with. And, where are all the Code Pink et al.
riotspeace demonstrations against him and the chants of “No blood for oil!”?Updated January 03, 2010
Despite Al Qaeda Threat, U.S. Not Planning to Expand Terror Fight in Yemen
FOXNews.com
The U.S. does not plan to open a new front in Yemen in the global fight against terrorism despite closing its embassy there in the face of Al Qaeda threats, President Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser said Sunday.
Joe, Joe, Joe – what’s to be confused about? We are not at war with any one, or any country. This is just a natural response to a potential man-made disaster – a pin-point strike against a highly valued target – the storage shed for all of those Hanes undershorts with a pouch. Why, TSA has new procedures, we’ve blown up the undies, we’ve shown we’re REALLY serious, so move along.
Fast forward another 3 years and this will be a Tomahawk strike into Venezuela to hit Al Qaeda targets there.
There’s a difference however. With Mr. Clinton you knew what his personal predilections were. His many and varied pursuits in the fertile delta of femininity were well known and well documented, so it was easy to postulate about his using the smoke of a cruise missile strike as cover. Kind of like having a randy Uncle over for Thanksgiving dinner. Despite having abhorent politics, he gets the sly wink and nod when during halftime of yet another Lion’s stinker, he holds court in a cloud of smoke billowing from a cigar that has been only god knows where, and regales the assembled and attentive menfolk with tales of his exploits. Uncle Randy was an open book, easy to read. Not so, Mr. Obama. He’s an enigma. There is no long track record in executive skills to aid in prognostication. And other than basketball and a little golf, we know next to nothing about his personal life. I have alot of trouble discerning his true motives. He’s hard to read. I do know this, giving an eloquent speech at West Point is far different than giving the ok to launch and where there is smoke, there is fire. stephen
Has it really been over 11 years? Time flies faster’n a missile
Anyone got a couple aspirin?
Will two fingers of Scotch cover it?
I´m starting to really like the guy. The “We are the World” speech keeps the liberals quiet, meanwhile he gives the go to bold actions like the navy snipers taking out pirates, increase troops in afg, now a good, old-fashined missile strike.
Good Times are back, baby, now with more Nobel Peace Prize!
I am forced to take mild umbrige with you, Cardoso. Rpts are that the snipers forced his hand by pushing the envelope, i.e., he was forced to send the Seals only under great pressure–not having done so would have been seized upon by his critics. Yet at the same time he reportedly gave such a restrictive set of specific ROEs for the situation as to practically preclude action. Insider reports say that a negotiated settlement at all costs was what he was attempting and only the very complete, total success of the snipers forced his hand while simultaneously keeping Obama from disciplining them.
Likewise with the troops in Af–he was pushed/dragged by the heels on that by both the Pentagon and the court of public opinion. Evidence? The decision that resulted after a 3 month delay was essentially the same one he could have made 3 months prior. And missile strikes are the perfect lefty recourse–antiseptic with no real, true regard for collateral damage while simultaneously putting no American servicemen in danger.
And the esoteric “We are the World” BS may work to hype the American natives in the fever swamps of the far left, but it makes him seem weak and foolish to our more gimlet-eyed hard-case adversaries.
I am not impressed.
I hope that Cardoso was joking.
His post strikes me as a bit humorous. Particularly the part about Nobel Peace prizes. In Obama’s case, perhaps it should be changed to the Piece prize.
At least missile strikes don’t risk the life of any pilot for a mere symbolic act. A predator with a couple Hellfires would have been a much better tool, methinks. Hit ‘em, then when they are running around hit ‘em with something amounting to a VT warhead. Something to detonate above ground to maximize shrapnel coverage.
Yeah, QM, I caught the humor too, but was in a foul mood–standard these days–and wasn’t about to cut Obama any slack–even humorous slack. My apologies to our man Cardoso…
QM, I thought we were talking about the Won, not Tiger.
Myself, I like fuel-air.
But I’m just a grunt.
You guys WOULD, wouldn’t you?
I saw ‘em used a couple of times in Vietnam as a FAC when they kicked the monsters out of the rear end of a C-130 with a parachute on top of some hill/mountain top bunker complexes. Watered MY eyes….
They are impressive. I’ve seen video of FAE employment, and Oh…my…my…
Talk about some high order $h!t. Woof!
Mongo, have you ever seen the “monkey” FAE video? A classic.