Keeping it Real

Other people say this with far more nicely formed phrases, but the cold reality is that if you are so deeply conflicted, or so over-estimate your intelligence, or in your limited insight fail to understand how committed others are, your mal-execution of state-craft is going to kill men. Vox expounds on the typical leftist tool who can't recognize what is right in front of his face. Unintentionally, and with the best of intentions, he has opened the doors to the demons of Hell, and the darkest forces in the human spirit have much greater scope and much more power today than they did when he took the oath of office back in 2009. Unintentionally? With the best of intentions? Is Mead talking about Obama or himself? Remember, as Mead excoriates Obama's foreign policy, that he not only voted for Obama, but voted to re-elect him. But it's not as if Obama's foreign policy was any better from 2008 to 2012 than it has been from 2012 to 2016. Vox is valid in his perspective,...

Reading this Nobel Laureate platitudes , I can't help but think, Just Say No! I was young and foolish once, but no longer. We should stop bleeding and dying to fight the wars of folks who lack the capacity to hold what we take for them. More over, let them take their own GD dirt. As for me, I'm done. I no longer believe in Nation Building. People who molest goats and boys can live or die on their own. Not my concern, not my blood, no the blood of my children's generation. No more. Call me selfish, call me wise, I care not a Silver Sh!t. Unlike some of my classmates who have already matriculated to eternity, I have faced the Reaper, and it wasn't my time. We need to stop the insanity. Bleeding, dying for people who molest livestock when there aren't enough young boys to be had is insane. I'm coarse and direct because the generation that is down-range deserves better. They see this insane sh!t every day. I believe in the old-school approach. Post a...

We veterans continue to become a smaller minority, but I have yet to find one that feels there is a decent, much less compelling reason to send anyone else to bleed or die in the Middle-East. Cernovich pegs it, the globalists want to pick a fight. Call it cold-hearted, selfish, or just the wisdom of having followed orders, done what could be done to bring everyone back, and the abiding sense of the incompetence of our leaders. Don't ask us to start a fight if you aren't going to allow us to finish it, and don't ask us to take ground if we aren't going to occupy and keep it. The thought of picking a fight with Russia over dirt that means nothing to us is idiocy in the extreme. Just like we don't care about Trump's behavior or indiscretions, we don't care about other peoples' dirt. Most of bought into the "Greater Good" at some level when we were young and foolish, but no more. I can't say what those who are in will do, but I'll g...

Having heard for years that This election is the Most Importantest Eva! the hypocrisy of Republicans bailing on Trump is hilarious. I say let them all flee, but mark them, and never let them near you again. If it were just the simple choice of who has enough sense to keep us out of a war in Syria, probably with Russia, I don't give a tinker's damn who say bad words. As the younger generation says, ZFG. I'm not a Republican, so their self-destruction is their problem, but if Trump wins, as I expect he will, he will either clean house by 2018 with the help of the folks who elected him, or the Republicans will practically cease to exist. Trump could be walking zombie, and he would be elected over Hillary. The outrage, the hatred, the growing anger about a system that has failed generations has found a vessel for that vitriol. They don't care if he howls at the moon or dresses up like a furry. ZFG. So, The Trump should be quietly making a list of every individual wh...

There are certain things that will provoke anyone to write, and this is one of them. When you read this, I should caution that is a real quote from a real Team Obama representative, and not something from the Onion or other satirical content. "We're killing a lot of them, and we're going to keep killing more of them. ... But we cannot win this war by killing them," department spokeswoman Marie Harf said on MSNBC's "Hardball." "We need ... to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups, whether it's lack of opportunity for jobs, whether --"   That's correct readers, give them jobs, and the beheadings will cease! Could YOU say that with a straight face?

Lest someone thinks that I want to continue with the "police actions", Karl spells it out well Doesn't matter folks.  You either conduct a war as a war, not a police action,  or you don't go. We have to stop ****ing around, to be blunt.  We've made a hash of basically every foreign place we've gone for the last 50 years because we have forgotten that war is not a nice business and never can be made into one.  You either go into war with the premise that anything that looks like your enemy gets shot and blown up until whatever remains sues for peace  or you stay home. My previous post was made under the understanding that most recent presidents want to "Do Something", so my humble suggestion is either do something kinetic or just STFU. The posing is just weak and embarrassing. Think Zoolander.

This was such a stunning display of idiocy, I decided that I should make this a regular feature upon which I can hold forth in short bursts for my own entertainment. "Can the US stop ISIS using airstrikes?" -CNN Short Answer - HELL NO! A better question, after spending far too much blood and treasure without ever committing to a viable plan for truly transforming the region (whether we should have ever tired is moot at this point) is "Why bother?" Since we have no stomach as a nation for what it would take to actually transform the region, we should extract key equipment where we can, demolish the rest, and extract totally. The only viable use of airpower in that context is to shield our forces and deny the enemy movement until we are clear. The empire is dissolving as we speak, and our troops are better home. If the Airdales were honest, they have been under-utilized in the killing and destruction department (Direct Attack) since we "wrapped...