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Email Doodlings – The wars may be ending, but will this wrong headed perception?

Obama has unilaterally ended the Iraq war (hmmm, didn’t he rail against that “Cowboy Unilateralist” Bush for making decisions on his own?) and is on his way in doing the same in Afghanistan.  And while I had some words about it here, this is not the thrust of this post.  Instead, it is this:

Neo-cons have no problem sacrificing their own children to the war machine. That sounds harsh, but it’s the truth

It brought back a memory of something very similar – it ignited my ire by effective saying the same thing:

Finally, if you believe in this mission, whatever it really is, are you willing to die or send your children to die for it?

This time, it started off with a discussion back aways about Sarah Palin getting into the Primary race but quickly morphed from that to this and I never expected to hear that from a non-Liberal friend.  In essence, the far Left and the far Right / Libertarian movement have met and in a very ugly fashion in accusing parents of willingly sending their kids to die for an ideology.  This is wrong at several different levels and to be clear, made my blood pressure rise – so I started to answer:

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Obama owns it, now. Will he break it, later?

From Iraq (NY Times):

BAGHDAD — Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq threatened on Wednesday to abandon an American-backed power-sharing government created a year ago, throwing the country’s fragile democracy into further turmoil just days after the departure of American troops and potentially tarnishing what has been cast as a major foreign policy achievement for President Obama.

In a nearly 90-minute news conference broadcast on tape-delay, Mr. Maliki defied his rivals and pushed back on all fronts in Iraq’s deepening political crisis, threatening to release investigatory files that he claimed implicated his opponents in terrorism.

He also threatened the Kurds, a valuable ally with close ties to the Americans, warning that there would be “problems” if they protected Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, who fled to the semiautonomous Kurdish region in recent days to escape an arrest warrant on charges that he ran a death squad responsible for assassinations and bombings.

Why should Maliki continue with the “American-backed power-sharing government”?  Effectively, Obama has taken the troops out ahead of time and are now leaving the Iraqi field wide open for other-than-American influence – read that as Iran.  Obama can now be said to have created a political vacuum in the region (or to be kind, a partial at the least; you and I would not last long breathing it).  Sure, with 16,000 personnel stationed at our embassy there we’ll have a presence there but a civilian in a region that loves the strong horse and derides the weak one.  Obama has shut the door on the American influence by signaling weakness in an area that will exploit such a sign.

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Socialist Democrat Moles in Action

At CPAC this last weekend former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield was booed and heckled. It is said that the people doing this were "Ron Paul supporters." I don’t believe it. For one thing, Ron Paul is not stupid; he disapproves of such behavior. Secondly, such activity is suspiciously like what collectivists on the Left always do, trying to shut … Read more

The End Of Combat Operations My ….

The AP Headline reads…"US forces in deadly fight in Iraq." I only mention it because we should expect to see this kind of thing when we leave 50,000.00 armed "advisers" in a militant and unstable country. The point is not that they are there, or that there is a reason for them to be there, … Read more

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