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Day By Day December 18, 2010 – Twu Wuv
Day By Day by Chris MuirAh Zed, Sam does NOT want you to go. But, when you do, you are on a short pendant – I mean leash.The War in Afghanistan is dragging on and it looks like Pakistan is helping the insurgent Taliban. President Obama should make it clear to the Pakistanis to butt out or face the consequences. I understand the Pakistanis are in the nuclear club but American NUKES are much bigger and this attirtion in Afghanistan is BS and the Pakistanis have to be made to understand – either diplomatically or by force.
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Day By Day December 4 & 5, 2010 – Balls & Crickets
The Lamsesteam media or MSM has NOT covered Obama’s missteps with regards to foreign policy, including Iraq and Afghanistan. Remember how NBC and CBS news were all over President George W. Bush and the daily body counts? Remember all of the fallen soldier’s families being interviewed as their bodies were returned to America?Now, there are crickets.
What about national security and WikiLeaks.
Is anyone placing blame on the Obama Administration?
Again, crickets – except maybe Newt Gingrich.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Sunday that President Obama and the White House deserve a large share of the blame for the massive amounts of classified information revealed through WikiLeaks.
Gingrich said the leaks are “a scandal of the first order” and that they demonstrate the Obama administration is “shallow” and “amateurish” when it comes to national security.
“You have a private first class who downloads a quarter million documents, and the system doesn’t say, ‘Oh, you may be over extended?’ I mean, this is a system so stupid that it ought to be a scandal of the first order,” Gingrich said. “This administration is so shallow and so amateurish about national security that it is painful and dangerous.”
It is obvious that the Obama Administration is in over their heads – on the order of Jimmy Carter incompetence.
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Day By Day November 18, 2010 – Junk Mate
Zed, you have no worries about the TSA. They will absolutely scan you and pat you down – all of you.Like this:
And, how ridiculous is that? An American being reactivated for military service in Afghanistan is being searched like a terrorist.
Isn’t there something wrong with this bureaucratization of the war on terror?
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Day By Day November 13 & 14, 2010 – Code and Breathe
Day By Day by Chris Muir
Chris, it will be REAL tough for Sam while Zed is away in Afghanistan – as it is for all military families.We can only hope for mission accomplished and a speedy, safe return home – for all of our troops, including Zed.
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Day By Day November 11, 2010 – Need 2 Know
Sam has every damn right to know where Zed, the father of Sam’s two children has been ordered for reactivation to military service. Zed is a good soldier and a loyal American who puts service first.But, it does not make it any easier for the wife.
Chris, by the way, might YOU be going to Afghanistan for a tour?
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Day by Day November 10, 2010 – Up That Creek
Chris, looks like Zed is being drawn into the quagmire which is Afghanistan under President Obama. Sort of like Ireland and their national debt crisis – sliding into the cesspool abysss.Ireland’s financial troubles loomed large Wednesday as investors – betting that the country soon could join Greece in seeking an EU bailout – drove the interest rate on the country’s 10-year borrowing to a new high.
The yield on 10-year bonds rose above 8 percent for the first time since the launch of the euro, the European Union’s common currency, 11 years ago.
The cost of funding Irish debt has risen steadily since September, when the government admitted its bailout efforts of five banks would cost at least euro45 billion, equivalent to euro10,000 for every man, woman and child in Ireland. That gargantuan bill, in turn, has made the projected 2010 deficit rise to 32 percent of GDP, the highest in post-war Europe.
The yield, or interest rate, on 10-year Irish notes rose steadily from 7.94 percent to reach 8.18 percent by midmorning. As the value of bonds fall, buyers demand ever-higher yields as compensation.
Bond traders increasingly believe that Ireland soon will be forced to tap Europe’s emergency fund for euro-zone nations facing a threat of bankruptcy. The 16 nations of the euro zone created that euro750 billion backstop in May as the EU and International Monetary Fund provided an emergency euro110 billion loan to Greece.
Another bailout would send more shock waves through the currency union, which has struggled to find ways to keep individual governments from overspending and threatening the currency’s value.
Might this be a lesson to the new Congress about spending and debt?
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Day By Day November 8, 2010 – Last Dance
Chris, President Obama’s Afghanistan/Taliban/Pakistan policy is failing and his July 2011 deadline for withdrawal looms. I know Zed is an outstanding operative but sending him into the combat arena in Afghanistan is a waste since Obama will be withdrawing all troops within six months anyway.As American’s economy has crash and burned under Obama, his foreign policy of blaming Bush and America has been equally a disaster.
In the meantime, the President dances is India and is planning to visit a Mosque in Indonesia where Obama was raised.
Wonderful…..
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Day By Day July 9, 2010 – Steele Medals
Chris, many Americans and conservatives are growing tired of the Afghanistan nation building strategy of the neo-cons and President Obama. Endless war, to fight an amorphous enemy sounds like Vietnam all over again.Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele was absolutely right. Afghanistan is Obama’s war and, judging by other recent Democratic ventures in military affairs, isn’t likely to turn out well.
It has been idiotically claimed that Steele’s statement about Afghanistan being Obama’s war is “inaccurate” — as if Steele is unaware Bush invaded Afghanistan soon after 9/11. (No one can forget that — even liberals pretended to support that war for three whole weeks.)
Yes, Bush invaded Afghanistan soon after 9/11. Within the first few months we had toppled the Taliban, killed or captured hundreds of al-Qaida fighters and arranged for democratic elections, resulting in an American-friendly government.
Then Bush declared success and turned his attention to Iraq, leaving minimal troops behind in Afghanistan to prevent Osama bin Laden from regrouping, swat down al-Qaida fighters and gather intelligence.
Having some vague concept of America’s national interest — unlike liberals — the Bush administration could see that a country of illiterate peasants living in caves ruled by “warlords” was not a primo target for “nation-building.”
Read it all.
For anyone to think that Michael Steele is not representing a goodly number of Republicans on this issue are simply wrong. And, calls for his resignation as Chairman of the Republican National Committee are misguided.
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Poll Watch: Majority Favor Obama’s Afghanistan Withdrawal Timetable
From GallupFrankly, I am not surprised.After almost ten years of screwing around in Afghanistan, I don’t think Americans are too keen on wasting too many more men or material on the Taliban who have now moved into Pakistan anyway. The NEW anti-Taliban and Al Qaeda War will be handled by technology and bombing the bejesus out of their training camps by drones.
There is little support for spending billions to build roads, schools and business enterprises in a lawless and tribal Afghanistan.
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The Runaway General and the Obama Afghanistan Failure
Read the entire piece either at Rolling Stone or at the more reader friendly version at Politico.President Obama will meet with General Stanley McChrystal tomorrow and he will resign. But, the political damage to the Obama Administration has been major. The Afghanistan War is now squarely on Obama’s shoulders and his policies conducted by a cast of clowns in the White House are failing.
And, who will benefit politically?
Republican Presidential candidates who have executive experience – most notably Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney. Obama is now seen as weak in domestic as well as foreign policy with numerous blunders because of his lack of experience.
Also, watch for a resurgence of noise from the Clinton Cabal to undermine Obama. Hell, it is possible that Obama could lose the Democrat nomination to Hillary if he loses the Afghanistan war.
This story may, indeed, topple “The One.”
