| Their Commander in Chief is a freaking embarrassment. |
Less than a week after a US staff sergeant allegedly massacred 16 civilians in Kandahar, American soldiers were banned from bringing guns into a talk by Mr Panetta at a base in Helmand province.
Major General Mark Gurganus later said he gave the order because Afghan troops attending the talk were unarmed and he wanted the policy to be consistent for all.
"You've got one of the most important people in the world in the room," he told the New York Times, insisting that the decision was unrelated to Sunday's killings. "This is not a big deal."
Editor's
notes: there
is no leadership in our government. Now, we are reminded of the
incompetence of Obama as a military leader and, OF
COURSE, IT IS A BIG DEAL. Anytime you tell men to lay down
their arms while in a battlefield and in an assembly in which anything could
happen at any time, well that it is more than crazy, it is an
insult of the highest order.
And to
think that it was just Monday that Obama made this idiot statement
speaking of the troops: “You
can’t help but be proud of them generally.”
You do
know that these men of valor have fought under the most obscene battlefields
conditions imposed on them by any Commander in Chief: no air support if there is a danger
that collateral damage can occur; no “surprise attacks;” the reading of the Miranda rights in
some cases; catch and
release; no pursuit into
residential areas . . . . . and more. In
fact, this commander does
not know how to define “victory” and has said so, out loud.
All of
our soldiers know that Obama is about to release the worst of the bad from
GITMO, back into the Afghan
war theatre.
I do
not believe in the “righteous war” nonsense. I do believe in the “war of
necessity” and, sometimes that “necessity” is the
pre-emptive strike. And I
believe that war is about breaking things and killing people. It is not about fighting fair. It is about winning, and winning as fast as you can. And, if folks don’t like it, well, they are probably the losers. The press should never be allowed to
film an invasion or a “secret” mission. Negotiations
with the enemy should never be done publicly. Negotiations should always take place
out of strength. To do
otherwise, is to negotiate
surrender.
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