Comments on: Obama National Intelligence Director Declares Terrorist Threat Over

By: Achance

Achance — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:54:30 +0000

they’re just so arrogant or so contemptuous of their forebears, similar but not matching, that they think they can get a different result.

By: redneck_hippie

redneck_hippie — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:51:46 +0000

Gathering Storm right now and I thought of you when Churchill says the French had exhausted their revanchism in WW I.

At some point I’ll find a used hardcover set to put next to my Lincoln volumes by Sandburg.

By: Achance

Achance — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:40:25 +0000

times. The WWII memoir and “History of the English Speaking People” have the place of honor on my office bookshelf. My daughter gave me a nice leatherbound set of History of the English Speaking People, but I’ve never been willing to spring for a leather set of the memoirs. I do have it in hardback; the red and black binding that I think might have been the Book of the Month Club binding way back when it first came out.

By: davo119

davo119 — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:50:32 +0000

Colossal arrogance would explain his ignorance.

By: Steph C

Steph C — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:46:21 +0000

he would probably count the loss of several thousand lives worth it if he can use them to amass unequaled power to a president. You know he’s down in Venzueala picking Chavez’s brain about how to make himself president for life.

Thankfully, I don’t think Chavez’s tactics will work here. The people here are waking up to the fact that unlimited terms in Washington, D.C. has a way of screwing them over. The Tea Parties were as much about that as the tax and spend and tax some more.

By: davo119

davo119 — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:46:12 +0000

and The Gathering Storm about 6 times. Sir Winston is one of the great men of the 20th century. But the most incredible aspect of his personality was how he handled rejection. He retired to Charthouse and painted until he was called again, very much like Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus.

By: redneck_hippie

redneck_hippie — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:31:15 +0000

Churchill’s History of the 2nd WW, and the parallels with Baldwin/Chamberlin and Carter/Clinton/Obama are spooky. What I find so incredible is that a grown man could be so willfully ignorant of the lessons of history.

By: IJB

IJB — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:14:39 +0000

…Will turn out to be Slobama’s Waterloo.

By: davo119

davo119 — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:41:14 +0000

The following statement was made by British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, in front of #10 Downing Street, London, after his arrival home from the notorious Munich Conference of 1938

We, the German Fuhrer and Chancellor, and the British Prime Minister, have had a further meeting today and are agreed in recognizing that the question of Anglo-German relations is of the first importance for our two countries and for Europe.

We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German Naval Agreement as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again.

We are resolved that the method of consultation shall be the method adopted to deal with any other questions that may concern our two countries, and we are determined to continue our efforts to remove possible sources of difference, and thus to contribute to assure the peace of Europe.

My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is “peace for our time.” Go home and get a nice quiet sleep

By: red_oakster

red_oakster — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:00:16 +0000

Now Obama, Panetta, (and apparently Blair (he of Chas Freeman fame) are ideologues. But to be on record as denying that there’s a threat-and that’s what they’ve done-opens them to serious political repercussions should anything bad happen during the next three years or so. The Carter and Clinton eras were marked by shabby and dishonest policy that weakened American intellegence and counter-terrorism capabilities. But those were duplicities, undertaken in the shadows because at least some of the time, slimeballs like Vance and Christopher, and Albright knew they would need to temporize.

In contrast, the Obama crowd seems to be completely unaware that this sort of smug self-congratulation can be immensely destructive if anything bad goes wrong on the terrorism front. It’s one thing to acknowledge a threat and, if something bad happens, explain why every effort had been made to avoid it. It’s quite another to deny a potential problem and find oneself confronting a painful and bloody denial or your denial. That’s unnecessary, and that’s where the Obamaist conceit has brought them.

By: itrytobenice

itrytobenice — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:38:17 +0000

We just have to hope we’re lucky enough to be gone on the day of the attack.

By: bobojake

bobojake — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:01:46 +0000

he’s runnig around to other countries making up lies and apoligizing for them.

(O)

By: Common_Cents

Common_Cents — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:43:47 +0000

I’m sure 20 American hostages on land in Somalia would have been passed on to Al Qaeda.

By: Cheetah772

Cheetah772 — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:40:36 +0000

I recall one of his posts dealing with Obama’s candidacy for president just months before he won the race. In that post, he wrote that one of reasons he was afraid that once Obama would win, his administration would return to the old way before 9/11. That type of old thinking would in effect lead to more innocent lives lost. Thousands will die on Obama’s watch due to the lack of attention to practicing anti-terrorist measures.

So, it’s amazing that how Erick’s post turned out to be correct. If Obama pursues this type of thinking, then may God help us all. I think it’s not just Erick’s post that struck my mind, but a few other notable posters saying the same thing as Erick did in months before Obama won the race.

It’s a tragic day for all Americans. A very tragic day, indeed!

By: Steph C

Steph C — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:33:36 +0000

By: The_Gadfly

The_Gadfly — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:29:32 +0000

the other aspect about this which strikes me, is this: Isn’t Blair’s remark a variation on the defense offered by many Nazi prison camp guards? How far different is, “I was following orders I believed to be legal but which you regard as a human rights abuse” from “I was just following orders.” Because to me, even with the extra words worked in, the problem is still that it either was or wasn’t a human rights abuse. And if it wasn’t a human rights abuse (my position) then the appropriate defense is that it was a human rights abuse. You can’t really make the argument “It was a human rights abuse, but we’re going to defend the people who committed that offense because they had bad information.” And that seems to be the position Blair and Obama are taking.

By: Achance

Achance — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:07:45 +0000

An attack on our soil would give them the opening for all sorts of nice “emergency” powers, which the D-controlled Congress would give him without even blinking, see, e.g., The Reichstag Fire.

By: Aaron Gardner

Aaron Gardner — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:07:06 +0000

you *know* that is the only way to truly be secure…;^)

By: Dan McLaughlin

Dan McLaughlin — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:03:42 +0000

By: Aaron Gardner

Aaron Gardner — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:00:51 +0000