Obama National Security Adviser: No, We Can't Beat The Terrorists. It's Too Hard And It Hurts.
Another Day, Another Obama Aide. Not The Richard Danzig Obama Knew?
By Dan McLaughlin Posted in 2008 | Barack Obama | Obamafiles — Comments (16) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
No day is complete without an Obama aide doing something that Barack Obama will sooner or later have to disavow, and this time it's an old favorite variety: the foreign press quoting a national security adviser speaking the counsel of defeatism:
Richard Danzig, who served as Navy Secretary under President Clinton and is tipped to become National Security Adviser in an Obama White House, told a major foreign policy conference in Washington that the future of US strategy in the war on terrorism should follow a lesson from the pages of Winnie the Pooh, which can be shortened to: if it is causing you too much pain, try something else.
Mr Danzig told the Centre for New American Security: "Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security."
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In a subtle break from Mr Bush's belief that the war on terror can be won, Mr Danzig, who is a Pentagon adviser on bioterrorism, warned that while the West can defeat individual terrorist groups and plots, it can never entirely remove the threat posed by nuclear proliferation or the prospect of bioterrorism.
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Pooh Bear is a justly beloved children's character, but of course the Hundred Acre Wood is never inhabited by by anything more menacing than bees and bad dreams (either of which is more than a match for the gentle-hearted Pooh). Not exactly the mental image most folks need at a time when you have Obama supporters lauding him as the antidote to tough guys and action heroes. It seems so long ago, does it not, that the Democrats would nominate a man who could say (and mean) things like this:
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
This much we pledge - and more.
To those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do—for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.
Barack Obama would say to John F. Kennedy: No, we can't.
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How anyone thinks they will be taken seriously by using Pooh as an intellectual go-by is beyond me.
I am laughing so hard it hurts.
I believe the more appropriate interpretation of his comment is: "there's more than one way to get something done, but you have to clear your head in order to identify your options."
Of course, the whole Pooh thing was too cute by half and it makes the very serious business of combating terrorists appear like child's play.
Of course, the whole Pooh thing was too cute by half and it makes the very serious business of combating terrorists appear like child's play.
Actually, I'd say that It makes Obama and his supporters look like chilren playing at what should be the very serious business of combatting terrorists.
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"You can't save the Earth unless you're willing to make other people sacrifice" - Scott Adams (speaking through Dogbert)
"When we’re doing mundane things, we lose track of our ambition but when someone comes along, like Asahara, the head of the cult, and presents himself as a messiah and gives us a picture of progress that is ordained by heaven and that we are carrying out a saintly mission on earth that is for us extraordinarily evocative."
Mr Danzig added: "The parallels with al Qaeda are obvious."
Why is it the first image I got from what Mr. Danzig was talking about was not al Qaeda but the Obama campaign itself?
Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.
You have to stay at the seat at the table of democracy with a man like Barack Obama not just on Tuesday but in a year from now, in four years from now, in eights years from now, you will have to be engaged.
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill
I've heard this quote before, and if you replace "Barak Obama" with "Jesus", you get something that I wouldn't be surprised to hear my parish priest say in one of his sermons.
All hail the Obamassiah!
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"You can't save the Earth unless you're willing to make other people sacrifice" - Scott Adams (speaking through Dogbert)
is out there for Obama, the blind leading the braindead is even more apparent. Evil oil companies are made scapegoats and destruction is threatened if we fail to worship Baal. If I wasn't a skeptic before this year, I sure would be now that the socialist monster has removed its mask. Guess I should take heart in the fact that Gore hasn't been right in his endorsements 3 times in a row.
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I have a feeling that as National Security Advisor his advice would be:
"Mr. President a bomb is incomming, I advise you to Duck and/or Cover"
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...make me feel less like it applies less to Pooh and more like a Briar Rabbit out come?
Re: if it is causing you too much pain, try something else.
Then by Danzig's reckoning the United States should have given up on World War II when the nation was nearly bankrupted. Bond drive organizers had their back against the wall to raise the funds to fight the war. The U.S. had ample opportunities to throw in the towel by Danzig's reckoning: Kasserine. Anzio. Heck, how about Pearl Harbor?
The Civil War would have ended in armistice, as terrible Northern casualties mounted under ineffective Union leadership. The Emancipation Proclamation would never have been signed and Lincoln would have not seen a second term. He would have been alive to write a tell-all book on his crappy generals. Our courts would be arguing about reparations in real-time.
Great Britain would have negotiated terms with Nazi Germany in the face of terrible opposition in the Battle of Britain. Who knows how the war would have turned out then. After watching their forces get beat off the beach at Dunkirk and watching France capitulate, Britain could have sought terms.
Yeah, Danzig's right...if it's too hard it's not worth doing. What a lazy a$$. Obviously he's never served his country in a meaningful capacity, and like his master, is clearly unfit for a role in our Executive Branch.
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The sad part is, there's an element of truth to Danzig's statements. No we can't defeat terrorism as an ideology, just like we can't defeat communism or Nazism as an ideology, because there will always be radical ideologues willing to do anything for a cause, or disaffected middle-class folks desiring to live a dream that's bigger than their humdrum existence. But we can destroy organized terrorist operations and create a climate hostile to terrorist, fanatical views, which, I believe, has been George Bush's strategy all along.
So what's Obama's strategy going to be? Well we can't possibly continue George Bush's "failed strategies", so we have to do something else...but it can't be something that requires a lot of sacrifice, because that would "hurt too much"...and it can't be something that pisses off our allies, or even provokes mild objection, because we can't do anything unilaterally, that's just too Republican... and we can't use the military, because of course every problem can be solved via diplomacy, and using the military would be, well, too militaristic...and it can't be anything involving border security, because as we all know that's just Republican code for "discriminate against Mexicans"...
...but it certainly can be something that raises taxes on "the rich" (i.e. everyone), does nothing to promote energy security here at home, and creates lots of government make-work jobs (i.e. Democrat voters).
So if Obama is elected, by 2012, we can expect to see:
1. A Middle East that, at best, looks about what it looks like today (i.e. teetering on the brink of anarchy), except without any US military around;
2. Continued reliance on Saudi and Venezuelan oil;
3. Gas somewhere around $8 a gallon, as supplies won't have increased at all but demand sure would have;
4. Open borders; and
5. A huge Federal government bureaucracy empowered to "do something about it".
We might all be dead, anyway, since that is what some people seem to be interpreting from various Biblical and aboriginal American prophecies.
At some point within the next five years, if we have a (Socialist-) Democrat President and the Congress remains in the hands of said (Socialist-) Democrats, someone out there (it won't necessarily have to be Al Qaeda or one of Iran's proxies) will have acquired a nuclear weapon and have made up his mind that he can get away with having it detonated in one of our cities. At that point, we can see what sort of men our so-called "leaders" really are. Of course, by the time the smoke clears, we may all be dead.
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Just what this country needs right now, another socialist loser!. Why are these quotes not on the front page of every newspaper in the country? Because the lib press is trying to hide the fact that these idiots are cowards! They are John Kerry heros, three purple hearts, we can't win, everyone else is wrong, America is the problem. Well this jerk Danzig can kiss my ass. The only way to defeat terrorist groups is to kill them all! And the way you do that is by getting people into power who know the enemy and have the will to do the job, not make excuses!
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perhaps your Hussein and small cussing yet still cussing would be more acceptable at other sites but that does not play here...if you want to continue to post here in a civil conservative/republican manner I suggest you "tone" it down a few pegs....believe me when I say you can make your point without the harsh rhetoric!
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...and Michelle Obama is Eyeore. So is anyone seriously surprised that their presumptive NSA is quoting national defense strategy from a children's book?
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