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State Department Strategy Review Flawed from Start

If the discussions at the kick-off event are an indicator, the final QDDR product will repeat past mistakes by maintaining a focus on the traditional official government instruments of foreign aid and will fail to achieve the true integration of all the tools of U.S. foreign and security policy.

Interesting pieces from The Heritage Foundation.

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Flip-Flop is Back

Besides the comments not sounding anything like the Kerry of campaign season - Doesn't the below sound like another "I voted for it before I voted against it"?

Kerry: Targeted attacks in Afghanistan not enough - washingtonpost.com

"I do not believe that a counterterrorism strategy all by itself without a sufficient level of counterinsurgency will work," said Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. "If you don't have a presence on the ground that's effective, it's almost impossible to collect the kind of intelligence that you need to be equally effective in your counterterrorism."
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Kerry is not promoting sending more troops now. That would be irresponsible, he said, when Afghanistan's election is not yet finished.

"I don't see how President Obama can make a decision about the committing of our additional forces or even the further fulfillment of our mission that's here today without an adequate government in place or knowledge about what that government's going to be," he said.

Don't Do Any Favors!

I believe this administration should continue to "boycott" and "demonize" FoxNews - Please, I am begging...sounds like a great way to get support:) Besides I will know where to tune to avoid a BS storm!

Despite spat, White House to book officials on Fox News - washingtonpost.com

After impugning the objectivity of Fox News and saying that they would begin to treat the network as "an opponent," White House officials said Sunday that they will allow administration officials to appear on the network.

I will not mention how utterly stupid and politically ignorant these arrogant ____es are being - But I do hope they continue!

Over?

Correct me, but I thought the Obama administration declared the "war on terror" over - In fact, we aren't even supposed to call it "war on terror" anymore... From this article, I don't think so!

Dang, I guess I made the Whitehouse's list yet again :0

...but wasn't all this hate for the west going to automatically stop because the "hope and change" guy won - How is that "hope and change" working of you?

AFP: Number of militant recruits on the rise: report

WASHINGTON — A rising number of Western recruits, including Americans, are traveling to Afghanistan and Pakistan to attend paramilitary training camps for militant Islamists, The Washington Post reported late.

Good News - NOT

The below is "great news"...we have so much to look forward to! For example, more taxes for "the greater good", go carts with electric mower engines, BS about renewable energies while you are still burning fossil fuels just not "oil"...and nobody will tell you how much these "batteries" will cost to buy, to dispose of, or the cost associated with gearing our emergency personnel up to deal with these "batteries"!

NO, it ain't good news - But hey I am a "global warming denier" and proud of it!

Some Hint at Progress on Climate Deal - NYTimes.com

A two-day meeting of officials from countries responsible for the bulk of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions ended Monday in London with hints that rich and developing nations might be able to bridge at least some of their differences on issues hobbling agreement on a new climate treaty.

This Can't Be...

...the evil Bush administration is gone and replaced by the "global friendly" Obama administration - Come on Al let's see your mojo.

The Associated Press: Hurricane Rick builds to Category 5 off Mexico

MEXICO CITY — Hurricane Rick grew Saturday into the strongest storm in the eastern North Pacific Ocean in more than a decade.

Couldn't have Said it Better

Many that know me have heard me harp about being sick and tired of hearing "the worst economy since the 'great depression'" - Knowing that many younger than 50 just weren't taught history before 1960 and those in their 30's nothing before Clinton. All seem to have forgotten the 70's, unemployment, inflation, and the initiation of a misery index (note Mr. Obama inherited a lower index than his predecessor while his climbed in the few months of office Bush's was lower after eight years, if anyone cares.).

Well I found someone other than I that remembers the 70's...all be it an evil "conservative" - Go figure.

Tell me if I have seen this before: Swine flu, Russian subs off the American coast, indecision toward Afghanistan, hot summers followed by cold winters. And then there is high unemployment and soon-to-be high inflation. Am I imagining things or is this a return to the 1970's?

I remember the ‘70's very well, especially the winter of '78. The heater broke in the middle of the coldest winter on St. Louis record and it was a miserable time. What struck me most was scientists trying to blame the frigid temperatures on global cooling. Make up your minds, will you

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What - One of the Great Healthcare Systems....

...needs help? Didn't Michael Moore declare Cuba as the model healthcare system in his acclaimed movie? So, why do they need help? Maybe, just maybe, the good things in their healthcare system were good because they were given to them by...go figure!

AFP: Cuba calls for help obtaining swine flu vaccine

HAVANA — Cuba called Monday on the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organization to help it acquire doses of a vaccine against the A(H1N1) virus.

Sounds all To Familiar

While the world focus on one side of the world North Korea plays its usual games; however, there is a new twist, it seems they are playing unchecked and unchallenged by the US - Wonder if this is the change voted for?

The Associated Press: Report: NKorea nearly restores nuclear facilities

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea is in the final stage of restoring its nuclear facilities, a news report said Tuesday, as leader Kim Jong Il expressed a conditional willingness to end Pyongyang's boycott of international nuclear talks

Beta Male, We Need an Alpha!

Excellent opinion piece from The American Thinker
American Thinker: Did We Elect a Beta Male As President?

With his "we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist" opening to the world's dictators, the President is exhibiting classic beta male behavior, in essence rolling over on his back and exposing his throat to them to make sure they know he has no intention of challenging their

Mr. President - You Won, now be Presidential

Good piece...

Richard Cohen - Time for Obama to Act Like a President

Sooner or later it is going to occur to Barack Obama that he is the president of the United States. As of yet, though, he does not act that way, appearing promiscuously on television and granting interviews like the presidential candidate he no longer is.

and More on the Afganistan Issue

We will see...What do you think?
Advisers to Obama Are Split on Afghan Troop Request - NYTimes.com

WASHINGTON — As President Obama weighs sending more troops to Afghanistan, one of the most consequential decisions of his presidency, he has discovered that the military is not monolithic in support of the plan and that some of the civilian advisers he respects most have deep reservations.

...and On National Security

What to you think "dear" leader will do? Stand up to the fringe left and send troops or give in and allow it to be "all for not"?

AFP: General backs request for more troops in Afghanistan

LONDON — Britain's top general in Afghanistan has backed his US commander's call for more foreign troops to fight an increasingly bloody Taliban insurgency, a newspaper said Monday.

Lieutenant-General Jim Dutton, the deputy commander of NATO?s International Security Assistance Force, told The Times newspaper that victory was a matter of "straightforward force ratios".

"If you want to achieve long-term stability, and therefore a lack of terrorism potential in an area, you need to be doing more than simply patrolling the skies," Dutton said.

He said he supported US General Stanley McChrystal's request for a troop buildup in the country to counter the Taliban insurgency -- as competing advice over the future war strategy and waning Western public support grows.

Rich Lowery on The Afghanistan Flip-Flop

Rich Lowery does a good job reminding us of the campaign slogan "should be in Afghanistan"...AND now the oops "never mind", democrat thought process.

On Afghanistan, Never Mind? by Rich Lowry on National Review Online

Now that it is crunch time in Afghanistan, they’ve gone from resolute to flaccid.
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And John Kerry, who used to be as gung-ho as John Wayne in The Green Berets, now sounds ready to revert to his usual martial role of leading the political charge toward defeat.

I "Double Dog Dare" Him

There is a REASON Mr Milloy that no one is "called out"...

Courtland Milloy: Obama Needs to Follow Through With Threats to Call Out Foes

"If you misrepresent what's in this [health care] plan, we will call you out," Obama told a joint session of Congress last week

...because doing so would shine a light on who is lying and who is misrepresenting what - Do you really want that? I DO!

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Carter Wrong Again

Well former President Jimmy Carter is wrong, but considering the source one would expect that. Let see how do I say this respectfully...it isn't race stupdid, well I couldn't think of a better way to put it.

AFP: Racism behind anger toward Obama: Carter

"I think that an overwhelming proportion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, he's African-American," Carter, 84, told NBC television.

Forgetting Defense ...

Forgetting defense or like other democrats kicking it to the side claiming the fight the "war on poverty" one that hasn't been made any advancements in 50 years - Guess now it is the "healthcare war".

...one question, if the "healthcare plan" will pay for it's self, as our president claimed, why the need to cut the military budget????

How to Dismantle a Military Superpower

Ultimately, severe modernization cuts could increase the likelihood that U.S. military capabilities will fall short of the nation's wide-ranging security commitments. Current budget plans indicate the United States may relinquish its military superpower status - not to another nation per se, but by reverting to a position where it lacks the capacity to engage and maintain a forward presence globally.

Technorati Tags: healthcare, military

Desires to "Get Along"

Well an "example of sanity", the role model of genius has again proclaimed all who disagree with he as crazy...of course previously we were just stupid.

Let's all learn, and hope the conservative elected officials learn, from these examples of just how the left wants to "get along". After all, they are so much smarter than I and so much more civil...just ask 'em!

Bill Maher Challenges Obama: "Stand Up For The 70 Percent Of Americans Who Aren't Crazy" (VIDEO)

Oh Good - Another Prime Time Event :-(

...and we have another possible prime-time event...this president wants more face time than Paris Hilton and may pass the last two administrations total "time on television" by the end of the year...

Oh and if you notice - The problem stems from "two republicans"; of course, if it is such a great deal they don't need any republicans, and they can have all the credit for themselves.

Obama Weighing Health Care Strategy Shift - Political News - FOXNews.com

President Barack Obama, faced with falling approval ratings and increasingly impatient with Senate negotiations over health care, is weighing a shift in strategy that would offer more details of his goals for overhauling the nation's health care system.

The president is considering a speech in the next week or so in which he would be "more prescriptive" about what he feels Congress must include in a bill, top adviser David Axelrod said Tuesday in an interview. The speech might occur before the Sept. 15 deadline the White House gave to Senate negotiators to seek a bipartisan bill, Axelrod said. He suggested that two key Republicans have not bargained in good faith.