Stand Up Notes From Flyover Country: Dithering on Afghanistan

The situation in Afghanistan is like a poker game. There are only three options for action: raise, call or fold.  The President seems to be unable to pick one that doesn’t have Americans on both sides of the debate pulling out their hair.

During his campaign for the White House President Obama said, “We have seen Afghanistan worsen, deteriorate. We need more troops there. We need more resources there… I would send two to three additional brigades to Afghanistan.”

He promised to send another ten to fifteen thousand troops to help those already there. He also declared that the war in Afghanistan was the proper front in the war against terror. Now that he is Commander-in-Chief, his vision seems to be less clear.

The military commanders gave the President four troop deployment options earlier this week but he refused all four. Not for military reasons but because of some hooey about the corruption of the government in Kabul and their inability to run a fair election. Mr. President, if our support for governments was based on whether they are corrupt or not and could run a fair election, we would have pulled federal funding from Chicago years ago. The problem with pulling out of Afghanistan, or Chicago for that matter, is that they would fall into violent anarchy. We have already seen that happen in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. (more…)

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Tags: ACORN, Afghanistan, Al Queda, chicago, iran
Posted Nov 18th 2009 at 4:44 pm in Military, News, Politics | 26249058 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/11/18/get-in-the-game-mr-president/Stand+Up+Notes+From+Flyover+Country%3A+Dithering+on+Afghanistan2009-11-19+00%3A44%3A47Jeffrey+Jena

Afghanistan: Obama’s Setup and Payoff

Skillfully written screenplays are frequently structured around a series of setups and payoffs.

The most rudimentary example is, of course, the pistol in the desk drawer: revealed in Act I, and then in Act II, the gun is used to kill someone.

For an intensive workshop in cinematic setups and payoffs you should screen the Back to the Future series, where setup and payoff are elevated to an entirely new level.

It’s kind of fascinating, watching Obama construct the setup for his Afghanistan policy. He follows a familiar dramatic structure:

1. Anguished self-reflection, all quite public in order to display nobility of character. (more…)

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Tags: Afghanistan, appeasement, General McChrystal, General Petraeus, Hamas
Posted Oct 7th 2009 at 8:21 am in Military, Politics | 241054108 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ravrech/2009/10/07/afghanistan-obamas-setup-and-payoff/Afghanistan%3A+Obama%27s+Setup+and+Payoff2009-10-07+15%3A21%3A49Robert+J.+Avrech

Daily Gut: Pop Goes The Nukes

So if there`s one thing we learned recently, it`s that it`s not nuclear war that can wipe everything off the map. It`s the death of a pop star. Think about the things that mattered back in June: Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, cap and trade, that insipid health care infomercial – and ask yourself what happened in regard to any of those issues in the last few weeks.

A. Nothing?
B. Anything?
C. A lot?

The answer is C, but we just didn`t see it.

We know that some of our brave troops died fighting for freedom. Protestors in Iran were violently silenced too, fighting for a glimmer of what we have. You can also be certain that the opportunity to actively undermine fascism in Iran has passed – our President choosing “wait and see” over “hope and change.” He also snuck a few hundred pages of climate-bill baloney past us in the dead of night. (more…)

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Tags: "Project Runway, Afghanistan, arms reduction, Cap and Trade, Charm School
Posted Jul 9th 2009 at 10:51 am in Daily Gut, Politics | 17998239 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/07/09/daily-gut-pop-goes-the-nukes/Daily+Gut%3A+Pop+Goes+The+Nukes2009-07-09+17%3A51%3A01Greg+Gutfeld

The Russians, Arabs, Drug Cartels and our Southern Border

On June 3rd Sara Carter and the Washington Times reported, “Al-Qaeda Eyes Anthrax Attack On U.S from Mexico.” The story is based on an Al-Qaeda recruitment video first broadcast back in February on Al Jazeera.  In it, Kuwaiti dissident Abdullah al-Nafisi tells a roomful of people that Al-Qaeda is currently casing the U.S. border with Mexico to see how they could smuggle weapons through border tunnels and into the U.S. (Relax fellas, you don’t need to crawl through tunnels. I can show you whole unguarded roads that go across the river and into the U.S. … unless you really like crawling.)

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Border Ranchers and Texas Law Enforcement have been warning of such a threat for years. For a long while now, ranchers and sheriffs have been reporting incidents of Middle Eastern human smuggling. For some Texas ranchers, stumbling upon Somalis, Eritreans, Bangladeshis or Iraqis is no longer surprising. Zapata County Sheriff Sigfried Gonzales had to reach out to the Israeli Mossad in order to identify Jihadist mercenary patches that were sewn into the inside of clothing recovered in the Texas brush.  (more…)

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Tags: Bangledesh, Border, border patrol, border security, drug cartels
Posted Jun 8th 2009 at 6:41 am in Military, Politics | 1534583 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/cburgard/2009/06/08/the-russians-arabs-drug-cartels-and-our-southern-border/The+Russians%2C+Arabs%2C+Drug+Cartels+and+our+Southern+Border2009-06-08+13%3A41%3A00Chris+Burgard

“NewsBusted” 3/20/09 — Fake News from the Right

In this episode, “NewsBusted” covers: Pakistan, California, Gitmo, Nancy Pelosi, Global Warming, New York Times, Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman, Barbie, E! Network, Scarlett Johansson, and Gary Busey.

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Tags: Barbie, California, E! Network, Gary Busey, gitmo
Posted Mar 20th 2009 at 12:44 pm in Political Humor, Video | 8546218 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/epeterkofsky/2009/03/20/%e2%80%9cnewsbusted%e2%80%9d-32009-%e2%80%94-fake-news-from-the-right/%E2%80%9CNewsBusted%E2%80%9D+3%2F20%2F09+%E2%80%94+Fake+News+from+the+Right2009-03-20+19%3A44%3A34Eric+Peterkofsky