We used to have an open society - it was pretty nice. One could say it was like it was a very nice barn, with a lot of open doors. But as great as it was to have the freedom to keep the doors open, problems occured. So, little by little, as each door is identified as a vulnerability (in retrospect), and subsequently closed, we are left with a dark, airless and fetid structure.
Here's a very pertinent, pithy essay on this topic from (retired US Army Intelligence Col.) Ralph Peters, in today's New York Post, "O's 'fixes' will fail".
What the hell are you talking about here,Kate? Nothing happened.Some poor misunderstood boy fried himself.....it was aboviously the fault of not enough white guilt,and not enough social workers,committees,etc to assess him before he tried to murder so many people.Cripes.Doesn't anybody here read anything besides VRWC blogs???
CYA and make it impossible for anyone to be responsible. The sad thing is that if they get rid of the Dems - the same civil servants will be there to filter the doublespeak for the next group. The rot is real deep.
"So, too, can you gauge the steepness of his team's learning curve by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napalitano's latest set of bizarro comments.
Asked for the most "stunning" finding from a review of security lapses, Napolitano answered: "The determination of al Qaeda and Al Qaeda-Arabian Peninsula."
How can administration deal with problems when they do not believe they can solve them?
According to Danger Room top intelligence officer in Afghanistan recently published a "scathing critique" of the Afghanistan War through " a small-but-influential think tank." This think-tank is associated with a blog Abu Muqawama (in arabic it means something like Father of Resistance [against Americans] - like M (muqawamat) in HAMAS).
Now, how can administration/USA win an Afghanistan war, conduct successful anti-terrorist actions and be successful against enemies when the "influential think-tank(s)" not only does not believe in the success of American military policies and many American policies overall but they also do everything to popularize such frame of mind.
If someone does not believe in success of his undertaking he will surely fail in whatever he is doing.
How can administration deal with problems when they do not believe they can solve them?
According to Danger Room top intelligence officer in Afghanistan recently published a "scathing critique" of the Afghanistan War through " a small-but-influential think tank." This think-tank is associated with a blog Abu Muqawama (in arabic it means something like Father of Resistance [against Americans] - like M (muqawamat) in HAMAS).
Now, how can administration/USA win an Afghanistan war, conduct successful anti-terrorist actions and be successful against enemies when the "influential think-tank(s)" not only does not believe in the success of American military policies and many American policies overall but they also do everything to popularize such frame of mind.
If someone does not believe in success of his undertaking he will surely fail in whatever he is doing.
How can administration deal with problems when they do not believe they can solve them?
According to Danger Room top intelligence officer in Afghanistan recently published a "scathing critique" of the Afghanistan War through " a small-but-influential think tank." This think-tank is associated with a blog Abu Muqawama (in arabic it means something like Father of Resistance [against Americans] - like M (muqawamat) in HAMAS).
Now, how can administration/USA win an Afghanistan war, conduct successful anti-terrorist actions and be successful against enemies when the "influential think-tank(s)" not only does not believe in the success of American military policies and many American policies overall but they also do everything to popularize such frame of mind.
If someone does not believe in success of his undertaking he will surely fail in whatever he is doing.
Why this blog? Until this moment
I have been forced
to listen while media
and politicians alike
have told me
"what Canadians think".
In all that time they
never once asked.
This is just the voice
of an ordinary Canadian
yelling back at the radio -
"You don't speak for me."
homepage email Kate (goes to a private
mailserver in Europe)
I can't answer or use every
tip, but all are
appreciated!
"I got so much traffic afteryour post my web host asked meto buy a larger traffic allowance."Dr.Ross McKitrick
Holy hell, woman. When you
send someone traffic,
you send someone TRAFFIC.
My hosting provider thought
I was being DDoSed. -
Sean McCormick
"The New York Times link to me yesterday [...] generatedone-fifth of the trafficI normally get from a linkfrom Small Dead Animals."Kathy Shaidle
"Thank you for your link. A wave ofyour Canadian readers came to my blog! Really impressive."Juan Giner -
INNOVATION International Media Consulting Group
I got links from the Weekly Standard,Hot Air and Instapundit yesterday - but SDA was running at least equal to those in visitors clicking through to my blog.Jeff Dobbs
"You may be anasty right winger,but you're not nastyall the time!"Warren Kinsella
"Go back to collectingyour welfare livelihood."Michael E. Zilkowsky
"Bringing a monthly status report to a Semtex fight."
Exactly !
Sums up just how low the 'politically-correct obsessed' West has sunk.
You know you're pooched when they describe the agencies responsible as "the CT community". They aren't a GD "community" they are employees!
We used to have an open society - it was pretty nice. One could say it was like it was a very nice barn, with a lot of open doors. But as great as it was to have the freedom to keep the doors open, problems occured. So, little by little, as each door is identified as a vulnerability (in retrospect), and subsequently closed, we are left with a dark, airless and fetid structure.
Erik, is this not what the liberal/Marxist statists and Islamists ultimately want?
brain dead, the whole bunch of them
and the only cure, is physical removal of the lot, politicians and bureaucrats
Doublespeak from the Ministry of Truth. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Ken (Kulak) - of course it is!
Here's a very pertinent, pithy essay on this topic from (retired US Army Intelligence Col.) Ralph Peters, in today's New York Post, "O's 'fixes' will fail".
What the hell are you talking about here,Kate? Nothing happened.Some poor misunderstood boy fried himself.....it was aboviously the fault of not enough white guilt,and not enough social workers,committees,etc to assess him before he tried to murder so many people.Cripes.Doesn't anybody here read anything besides VRWC blogs???
CYA and make it impossible for anyone to be responsible. The sad thing is that if they get rid of the Dems - the same civil servants will be there to filter the doublespeak for the next group. The rot is real deep.
The problem could be that the screeners were looking ahead and grasped the real possibility that this Abdulwhatever would be a future POTUS...
..he fits the profile......
America your in very shaky with Napalitano.
"So, too, can you gauge the steepness of his team's learning curve by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napalitano's latest set of bizarro comments.
Asked for the most "stunning" finding from a review of security lapses, Napolitano answered: "The determination of al Qaeda and Al Qaeda-Arabian Peninsula."
That's astonishing. "
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/at_war_maybe_1DhiRLWEuGoxPsd9kxAbjJ
Well Mr. President, it appears General Ripper has already invalidated that policy.
George C Scott as Gen "Buck" Turgison in Dr Strangelove.
Let's approach war with a bureaucratic mindset.
How can administration deal with problems when they do not believe they can solve them?
According to Danger Room top intelligence officer in Afghanistan recently published a "scathing critique" of the Afghanistan War through " a small-but-influential think tank." This think-tank is associated with a blog Abu Muqawama (in arabic it means something like Father of Resistance [against Americans] - like M (muqawamat) in HAMAS).
Now, how can administration/USA win an Afghanistan war, conduct successful anti-terrorist actions and be successful against enemies when the "influential think-tank(s)" not only does not believe in the success of American military policies and many American policies overall but they also do everything to popularize such frame of mind.
If someone does not believe in success of his undertaking he will surely fail in whatever he is doing.
How can administration deal with problems when they do not believe they can solve them?
According to Danger Room top intelligence officer in Afghanistan recently published a "scathing critique" of the Afghanistan War through " a small-but-influential think tank." This think-tank is associated with a blog Abu Muqawama (in arabic it means something like Father of Resistance [against Americans] - like M (muqawamat) in HAMAS).
Now, how can administration/USA win an Afghanistan war, conduct successful anti-terrorist actions and be successful against enemies when the "influential think-tank(s)" not only does not believe in the success of American military policies and many American policies overall but they also do everything to popularize such frame of mind.
If someone does not believe in success of his undertaking he will surely fail in whatever he is doing.
How can administration deal with problems when they do not believe they can solve them?
According to Danger Room top intelligence officer in Afghanistan recently published a "scathing critique" of the Afghanistan War through " a small-but-influential think tank." This think-tank is associated with a blog Abu Muqawama (in arabic it means something like Father of Resistance [against Americans] - like M (muqawamat) in HAMAS).
Now, how can administration/USA win an Afghanistan war, conduct successful anti-terrorist actions and be successful against enemies when the "influential think-tank(s)" not only does not believe in the success of American military policies and many American policies overall but they also do everything to popularize such frame of mind.
If someone does not believe in success of his undertaking he will surely fail in whatever he is doing.
please disregard two of my posts above. On the browser I usually use my post did not show.
Sorry for that.