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Politicians in the classroom

Is there any part of our society that is safe?  It is amazing that we can get up in the morning without written and verbal instructions from our President.  I do not know what we would have done if we had not installed him as our President soon to be king or god or whatever he chooses.  I guess the last straw is telling our teachers how to teach and inserting his ever present and always campaigning personality into our primary classrooms on Tuesday next week.  Does anyone remember another time with a similar strategy – I believe they called it the Hitler Youth Movement.  As Radar on MASH would say – Wait for it!

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Politicians fighting wars?

When a soldier is under fire do you believe he should be worrying about ‘what is fair’?

When he captures an enemy soldier should he be concerned about political correct actions?  Should he be worried about how the next poll back home will interpret his actions?

Politicians should have very little to do with the details of battle.  Two reasons, one for plausible political deniability and second because 99% of politicians have no idea what they are talking about.

Currently, the enemy in Afghanistan is playing hide and seek with us.  He uses small villages as his base and hides among civilians.  Some civilians support them, some support us, some just are trying to survive.  Political pressure has been applied by world opinion and now the standing order for our soldiers is – do not pursue the enemy into civilian locations, do not fire at the enemy while he is in civilian locations.  I am not suggesting that we adopt a tactic or scorched earth but do not this kid glove approach seem a bit mild to anyone?

Here is the icing on the cake.  When we capture an enemy combatant we are not allowed to interrogate them.  We must turn them over to ‘civilian’ authorities so that they can be mirandized.  Then they are turned over to Afghan authorities who more often than not just release them … then they return to their military unit and shoot at our soldiers again.  War is not a police action.  This enemy is not robbing the local 7-11.

This all relates to the current administration pandering to the left and anti war sentiment.  I really do not have a big problem with leaving Afghanistan to the afghans.  Part of the Afghan population are a very brutal people.  There are ‘honour’ killing of daughters who disgrace the family in the eyes of the extreme Islamic laws.  There is acid washing of wives who disgrace a husband in the eyes of the extreme Islamic laws.  Political opposition includes the cutting off of a man’s eyes and nose because he carried a voter card and was going to vote in the recent election.  Political opposition includes the cutting off of the dyed fingers of Afghans who participated in the recent election.  Political opposition includes the threat that if anyone voted in the recent election, then they and their family would be punished severely with maiming or death likely.

What are we defending here?

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Answer the question

I was watching Fox cable news yesterday.  They were using the typical format with one Democrat and one Republican talking head separated by a right leaning moderator.  The moderator challenged the democrat with a question about recent white house claims that the Obama war effort is more effective against terrorists and actually has eliminated more terrorists than the Bush administration.  The democrat immediately launched into a political spin on how evil Bush was to use torture as an interrogation technique.  After about a minute or rhetoric, the moderator interrupted and asked the democrat to answer the question with statistics, facts not oratory.  He then quoted some vague comments from an onsite general who basically said that things are going better now.

When the moderator turned to the republican he got similar oratory – this time defending the recent statements of Cheney.  Again no answer to the question.

Pick your issue.  When you become a talking head for a US political party do you lose your ability to understand English? Without transparent answers to questions then there is no point to the interview.

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