Monday, January 18, 2010

Half Their Brain Tied Behind Their Back
  War piece by Robert R. Owens

Every day to the amazement and delight of more than 20 million people across the fruited plain Rush Limbaugh performs his host duties flawlessly with half his brain tied behind his back.  Anyone who has ever spent an objective hour listening to his program knows that Rush has a brain the size of a planet.

The Corporations Once Known as the Mainstream Media assure we now have a president who is always the brightest guy in the room instead of one who didn’t have enough brains to tie his shoes. 

In addition, with the exception of his Chicago handlers, casino capitalist cronies, and union dons our photogenic president is surrounded by academics eager to implement theories that worked in their labs and computer models with the American people as guinea pigs.  The Cavalcade of Czars is filled with the best and brightest liberal education has produced since the Summer of Love.  On the Hill Nancy Pelosi rules the house with an iron fist while Harry Reid runs the Senate with parliamentary tricks and his legendary eloquence.  Together they preside over the best Congress money can buy.  The question is can Alinsky’s dream team fight a war on multiple fronts with half their brain tied behind their collectivist back? 

Someone might ask, “What makes you think they are operating with half their brain tied behind their back?“  If they aren’t then they aren’t half as smart as they think they are.  They may be legends in their own mind and secular saviors of a lost humanism but if what we’ve seen so far is their A game we should exchange the IQ scores for psychological evaluations.  Because doing all the wrong things for the right PC reasons only turns into victory in Michael Moore documentaries and on MSNBC. 

Let’s look at some particulars.  Back in the Dream Time the Hippies used to ask “What if they gave a War and nobody came?“  When our first Boomer President took office he elevated this to a national policy.  The Islamists declared war on us and he sent in CSI and LA Law instead of Patton and a Band of Brothers.  Someone might ask, “How’s that working out for you?“  In 1993 we had the first World Trade Center bombing, in 1996 the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, in1998 the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed and in 2000 the USS Cole was attacked in Yemen.

Enter George II who cruises along keeping Clinton’s counter terrorism chief Richard Clark.  9-11 changed everything.  Bush found a bullhorn and told us he heard our cry of anguish and anger and he promised us, “the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!“  They did when we invaded Afghanistan knocked down the Taliban and chased Al Qaeda into the wilderness.  Then the neo-cons convinced him to invade Iraq squandering the support of the world.  Clinton never woke up.  George II did but then saw a shiny object and wandered off.  However, the last two administrations before the dawn of Re-Made America weren’t operating in a vacuum whistling in the wind hoping a war would just “Go away!“

For political reasons Harry Truman called Korea a police action.  This new-speak mind bending never registered with the heroes who fought or the families who sacrificed.  It didn’t register with the people or the historians.  No one refers to the Korean Police Action.  There are no monuments to the Korean Police Action.  Everyone knows this was a war.

President Johnson charged into Vietnam promising guns and butter, a war in Asia with guns and a war against poverty with food stamps.  America won the War in Vietnam even if the Watergate Congress later threw it away.  After multiple trillions of dollars and social decay we now have the same poverty level as when we started.  Burying your head in the sand is never a good way to see the path to victory. 

During the campaign Mr. Obama promised the troops would come home from the wrong war in Iraq and concentrate on winning the right war in Afghanistan.  Now the troops are going into garrison mode in Iraq, the generals are not getting what they say they need in Afghanistan while the enemy has moved to Yemen, Sudan and the Internet.  Janet Napolitano, the Homeland Security Secretary never mentioned terrorism in her confirmation hearing instead referring to man-caused disasters.  Like police action these verbal gymnastics aren’t fooling anyone. 

We aren’t engaged in a debate we’re in a war.  Slick talk may win debates but when it comes to wars actions speak louder than words and if our leaders won’t talk the talk how can they possibly walk the walk?  While Mr. Obama’s immediate response to disaster abroad is laudable his slow motion response to multiple terrorist attacks on his watch makes it appear as if this smartest of all administrations either just doesn’t get it or they’re fighting a war with half their brain tied behind their back.

© 2009 Robert R. Owens
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Posted by Robert R. Owens on 1/18/10

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