WASHINGTON — President Obama announced on Friday that he had ordered several dozen Special Operations troops into Syria for the first open-ended mission by United States ground forces in that country, deepening American involvement in a war he has tried to avoid for more than four years.
So for the US, 50 troops in Syria and 3,500 troops in Iraq, according to the story. Makes you wonder how things would have looked, if the US had just left 3,500 troops in Iraq in the first place back at the end of 2011.
This reminds me of something I’ve said before. There are worse things for wars than being a “warmonger”. Being incompetent is one of those things.
Looks to me like Obama is going for the band-aid approach, plus appearances, as opposed to letting military reality influence him.
This is, after all, the same drooling moron who dithered regarding air strikes when ISIS was in road formation during their invasion of Iraq (and thus sitting ducks for air strikes). A great many, me included, objected to this idiocy at the time, because it was absurdly obvious that a window of opportunity would only be open for a few days. Instead, the incompetent dithered.
It’s also very useful to remember that Egypt, under the Morsi islamist regime Obama stabbed an ally in the back to create, was a prime source of the unrest in Libya and Syria that caused this mess. Thankfully, Morsi was overthrown, but try telling that to Obama, whose state department is still calling for the islamists to be returned to power.
Obama isn’t just incompetently handling the problems, he’s creating them first, then incompetently handling them.
Here’s hoping the next president doesn’t continue Obama’s failure. I don’t want to see a side by side comparison in ten years of the oh, Iraqi Civil War to the Vietnam War.
I hope everyone had a good Halloween.
Mine was irreparably ruined via driving by a totally offensive temporary establishment (called a haunted house) that totally offended, me by being so crass and insensitive. I was devastated by the microagressions! Some of the staff, and also some of the attendees, wore utterly outrageously offensive costumes; ghosts and zombies. How dare they! That’s totally offensive to the lividity-challenged! And surely racist, somehow.
/leftmode
Dude: TRIGGER WARNING before you post that stuff. ^^^^^
Uhoh… Mea maxima culpa for forgetting to add a trigger warning. So, I’ll add one to this, TRIGGER WARNING, because it is about willfully denying a whole class of people the right to vote.
The core of the issue is that some people are criticizing the current head lawyer of the Clinton campaign because he’s, in the past, represented a group under attack for registering people to vote.
It’s outrageous that anyone would criticize anyone for registering people to vote just because the people registered had a medical condition!
And BTW, it’s offensive (and insensitive) to call such people “dead”, because that label has such negative connotations. They’re simply lividity-challenged. It’s time to end the unjust system of pulse privilege!
Obama sliding down the slope in Syria.
So for the US, 50 troops in Syria and 3,500 troops in Iraq, according to the story. Makes you wonder how things would have looked, if the US had just left 3,500 troops in Iraq in the first place back at the end of 2011.
This reminds me of something I’ve said before. There are worse things for wars than being a “warmonger”. Being incompetent is one of those things.
Looks to me like Obama is going for the band-aid approach, plus appearances, as opposed to letting military reality influence him.
This is, after all, the same drooling moron who dithered regarding air strikes when ISIS was in road formation during their invasion of Iraq (and thus sitting ducks for air strikes). A great many, me included, objected to this idiocy at the time, because it was absurdly obvious that a window of opportunity would only be open for a few days. Instead, the incompetent dithered.
It’s also very useful to remember that Egypt, under the Morsi islamist regime Obama stabbed an ally in the back to create, was a prime source of the unrest in Libya and Syria that caused this mess. Thankfully, Morsi was overthrown, but try telling that to Obama, whose state department is still calling for the islamists to be returned to power.
Obama isn’t just incompetently handling the problems, he’s creating them first, then incompetently handling them.
Here’s hoping the next president doesn’t continue Obama’s failure. I don’t want to see a side by side comparison in ten years of the oh, Iraqi Civil War to the Vietnam War.
I hope everyone had a good Halloween.
Mine was irreparably ruined via driving by a totally offensive temporary establishment (called a haunted house) that totally offended, me by being so crass and insensitive. I was devastated by the microagressions! Some of the staff, and also some of the attendees, wore utterly outrageously offensive costumes; ghosts and zombies. How dare they! That’s totally offensive to the lividity-challenged! And surely racist, somehow.
/leftmode
Dude: TRIGGER WARNING before you post that stuff. ^^^^^
Uhoh… Mea maxima culpa for forgetting to add a trigger warning. So, I’ll add one to this, TRIGGER WARNING, because it is about willfully denying a whole class of people the right to vote.
The core of the issue is that some people are criticizing the current head lawyer of the Clinton campaign because he’s, in the past, represented a group under attack for registering people to vote.
It’s outrageous that anyone would criticize anyone for registering people to vote just because the people registered had a medical condition!
http://hotair.com/archives/2015/11/01/clinton-campaign-attorney-represented-voting-group-now-charged-with-registering-dead-people/
And BTW, it’s offensive (and insensitive) to call such people “dead”, because that label has such negative connotations. They’re simply lividity-challenged. It’s time to end the unjust system of pulse privilege!