Day: June 30, 2010

Out Of Touch

From the VOMITORIUM

I hear some conserv pundits say, almost daily, that Repubs have ideas and have the will, just not the power to institute conserv ideals…..I will agree that there are some ideas coming from the GOP but most are recycled from the 80’s…just change the wording to make it sound new and fresh…..you know the stuff…tort reform, privatize Social Security,  cut the deficit, smaller government….yada yada yada…..

First of all, I would like to apologize to my conserv friends…I know it looks like I pick on the GOP way too much…but in reality they ask for it…..

The truth of the matter is that most conservs are old white guys that are out of touch with America….do not care what they call their latest proposal (Road Map For America’s Future…in case you were wondering)

GOP has NO new ideas for government or the economy…they are just re-hashes from the past or the fact that all the things that they are opposed to could have been addressed when they held the majority or their whining but others whining…..

I know,  if you are a conserv then you think I am being a “leftie” agitator…you would like more specifics….cool..I am down with that!

GOP candidate Angle  in Nevada thinks that you can eliminate unemployment by denying unemployment benefits to people out of work or,

GOP minority leader in the House, Boehner who compares the economic crisis to an ant or,

GOP Rand Paul who thinks that BP is being picked on and should be left alone or,

RNC chairman Michael Steele who thinks Obama started the war in Afghanistan…..

“The McChrystal incident, to me, was very comical. And I think it’s a reflection of the frustration that a lot of our military leaders have with this Administration and their prosecution of the war in Afghanistan,” said Steele. “Keep in mind again, federal candidates, this was a war of Obama’s choosing. This is not something the United States had actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in.”

And Steele is the chairman of the RNC…he is your spokesman!

Come Repubs admit it!  Your leadership and candidates are out of touch with the rest of the country…..how can you ask the people to vote for candidates that have no grasp of what it is to live in the real world?

Spies Like Them

Have you heard about the spies that were recently arrested in the US?  They were deep cover moles for Russia….and you thought the Cold War was over…silly Americans!

Anyway, there is a story on the Newser website about one of the spies….she is a red head and as anyone who visits Info Ink regularly knows I have a soft spot for red heads….and this “spy” could have got me to divulge anything she wanted to…….damn!

Read it and see what I mean….

http://bit.ly/cDtkNG

Change For Afghanistan

Recently I was reading some articles on the change in command for the troops in Afghanistan and I came across an interesting piece written by Patrick Martin…..

There is every indication that the change in command is the result of growing dissatisfaction with McChrystal’s counterinsurgency methods, which have failed to dislodge the Taliban-led guerrilla forces that control the bulk of southern and eastern Afghanistan. It presages a drastic increase in the level of US military violence, and especially the scale of civilian casualties among the Afghan population. Their “crime” is to sympathize with and support the anti-US insurgency.

Petraeus is already, according to one media report, preparing to modify the rules of engagement to allow for greater use of force.

According to a report Sunday in the British Independent, McChrystal had grown increasingly pessimistic about the prospects for success, particularly after he was compelled to postpone the planned offensive into the key southern city of Kandahar, a Taliban stronghold. He reportedly briefed NATO defense ministers earlier this month “and warned them not to expect any progress in the next six months.”

According to this schema, McChrystal had chosen the second and third goals, with the resulting spike in US-NATO casualties and increasing dissatisfaction among the rank-and-file soldiers ordered to take greater risks to avoid civilian casualties. The alternative, the author writes, is to focus on the first and third goals instead: “A state can protect its armed forces while destroying insurgents, but only by indiscriminately killing civilians as the Ottomans, Italians, and Nazis did in the Balkans, Libya, and Eastern Europe, respectively.”

This choice, what the author later calls “a policy of barbarism,” could perhaps be described as “the Hitler option.”  (excerpts from “The Hitler Option”)

I truly hate it when people use thew “Nazi” comparison, it usually turns me off when it is used,  but in this case it could well be used in a proper way.  My next question is, just how accurate is this analysis?  The answer will be in the news of the future……watch the happenings in Afghanistan and see how accurate the prediction or analysis is…..