Sword and Sextant

WaPo has the story right here.

Alright, here’s a quote:

SEOUL — President Obama will not announce his decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan before the Thanksgiving holiday, senior aides said Thursday.

The answer is: Nothing again. Nothing? Not even a promise to say something after Thanksgiving, or before Christmas? Really? Just more delays, huh?

The news came as the president greeted 1,500 troops at Osan Air Base in South Korea, just before boarding Air Force One and heading back to Washington after an eight-day trip to Asia.

Our boy-king has some stones, don’t he? Go meet with troops, even mentioning that they’re a great photo op, and delay a decision that literally means everything to the military. Meanwhile, our missionless troops die in Afghanistan whilst the President does what exactly?

Obama said in interviews Wednesday that he would reveal his decision within the next several weeks. On Thursday, aides clarified that there would be no announcement before Thanksgiving, one week away. Senior administration officials said Obama intends to meet with his national security team again before going public with his plans.

So, I’ve used the word several many times in my life, and meant different things when I said it. Its meant 3 weeks and even up to 10 or more weeks sometimes. This is about as open-ended as Obama can make this. Can’t even commit to a deadline on his decision that has lingered for 4 or 5 months now.

Obama did not mention the looming decision in his remarks to U.S. troops, referring to the Afghan conflict only by thanking South Korea for its efforts and expressing gratitude to the American military personnel who have served there.

It must not have come up. Honest mistake. Now, I’m gonna give Barry a little bit of slack based on this:

Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, has stated that without the deployment of up to 40,000 additional troops within the next year, the mission “will likely result in failure.” But some aides are arguing for a much smaller troop increase, and the U.S. ambassador in Kabul, Karl W. Eikenberry, has questioned whether the Afghan government can be a reliable partner.

I get it, Obama. Its a hard decision, but we’re literally spending lives and money, which you’re apparently concerned about these days (psst, you already tripled the deficit, dummy), without a serious mission in a country full of people trying to murder us. DO SOMETHING. You wanted to be President, now fucking do it.

Let’s talk about our Dollar, okay? Okay, I will.

Our dollar is failing. India just bought 200 million tons of gold, China is moving into gold, the G20 was openly discussing moving away from the dollar as the international currency. The value is plummeting, and gold is soaring.

Why is the dollar failing? Well, friend, we have some debts against our own money. Problem is, we’re not paying it off. As a matter of fact, our President has already spent a ton of money on non-military matters. Its scaring our debtors, and they are balking at backing a President that, in his own words, is “just getting started.” Not only are we not paying anything off, but we’re spending ever faster against our credit.

Obama has no intention of slowing his spending ways, as the push for health care reform has proven. If Medicare is used as any barometer, as liberals love to do. Medicare has a $36T unfunded liability. Yeah, any program that runs a deficit like that cannot honestly be used as a success in any respect. The bill’s first 10 years will run a 900 billion dollar deficit, but even that is gaming the system. You see, that number is gained from 10 years of taxes matched against 6 years of spending, so only the first ten years are even at that number. Let’s also remember that the 500 billion cut from Medicare will NEVER happen. When the time for these cuts comes, they will be cut. Alright, back on track…

There has been a lot of talk about the financial crisis being over, or the recession being over, or a jobless recovery. This talk is all premature. A great wave is going to devastate this nation, thanks to our President, and his continual drive to submerge the nation’s head beneath the waters of financial solvency. Our collapsing dollar will lead to inflation like we haven’t seen since, um, I don’t know, Jimmy Carter.

Imagine when our unemployment is around 8-11% and then 10% inflation hits. Imagine when the whole country takes that hit atop our current situation. I wonder how hollow Obama’s speeches will sound when he waxes poetic about his policies. Will he see the Hoovervilles he built in the distance?

I’m going to keep this moderately short and to the point.

The Fort Hood shooter was not a madman. He was not crazy in a medical sense. He may have simply “snapped” that day, but it was his proclivities that led to his actions.

The man was a radical Islamist. He was a pseudoterrorist that simply crossed over the lines after numerous internet postings and attempted contacts with Al Qaeda. He is simply part of the modern-day plague of this world: radical Islam.

I’ll say it again. Radical Islam is a monumental problem in this world, and it represents the most destructive single force in it. These wicked men, sometimes alone, sometimes in groups, convinced of divine missions, conspire to spread fear and destruction. They are triply terrible when you consider their evasion of consequence by committing suicide and their senseless disregard for their own lives.

From this and recent history, two things:
One, its time to simply accept that this world has an enormous sickness in radical Islam that needs to be named, culled, and eradicated. If this man were a radical Jew, he’d be publicly derided, as he should be. There are no special protections afforded by being Muslim. The double standard is horrible to behold, but everywhere. Did you know its a fucking crime to have a Bible in Saudi Arabia? If you are a Muslim, you get beheaded for it! I hardly think calling out that Muslims are about 95% of the world’s terrorists is hateful. It is what it is. Spineless evasion of mentioning the reason Hasan did this helps nothing.

Two, its time to call out regular Muslims. Where in the hell are the strongly worded letters and shouts from the Islamic community decrying these terrible attacks? Why don’t the peaceful Muslims inform on their evil brethren? Why aren’t the clerics screaming for justice for the soldiers? At some point, the silent Islamic community becomes an accomplice in addition to a silent witness. There are good Samaritan laws on the books that force people to aid the greater community against crime when they have a chance, and its about time society examines why the Muslim religion largely lets this happen.