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Obama: ‘The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam’
Well, I’ll give Obama credit for trying to prevent another September 11. Pity it’s the Chilean sort he’s worried about.
and there are those who think NSA is useless!!!!
I think the Egyptian army’s swift removal of his MB pals has a lot to do with this. Plus the fact Obama has no intention of giving up the Presidency.
Typical politically correct clap trap; if you are a regime ‘boot licker’ you get promoted, if you show independent and critical thought its the scrap heap for you.
It’s the independent and critical thinkers that keep you out of bigger cock ups and seek the potential pitfalls in any operation.
Having some foresight and pointing it out is usually known as ‘leadership’. Further, this just ensures that those still serving are looking over their shoulder waiting for a ‘political fork’.
Stalin also ‘purged’ his military leadership with rather well known disastrous results.
“America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.”
“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.”
Joseph Stalin
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Following in the footsteps of Uncle Joe.
I was thinking the same thing.
He is just doing what the Islamists regimes in Turkey and in Egypt under Morsi did. They showed him how.
Could use a bit of paring in the overweight military administration in Canada and put more money into the front-lines delivering around the world.
Interesting… the Democrats and the Obama White House has eliminated more senior American military Commanders than the German Army managed to do in 4 years of war. Al Qaeda must be jealous!
Time to purge the troublemakers and replace them with unknown friends, build a huge national militerized police force and expand the legions of inner city welfare hoodlums.
Yea, nothin to see here folks, move it along.
If Obama manages to fill the top ranks with useless yes-men it may spell the end for the US as a free democratic nation. Imagine how any future election may go if the polls are controlled by his forces? And if tthe democrats lose the next election what would make them step aside if they say NO and use their new socialist army to retain power?
The U.S. military is quite large so I am not sure that nine officers of general rank out of four services is much more than they normally fire or push into retirement sooner than the individuals concerned would like. But if it is the beginning of a political purge, we can hope that it will give that regime the same problems every other got from this sort of thing: It saps morale, sooner or later even amongst those who favour the regime because they know political reliability counts more than competence, and military effectiveness is degraded. If you don’t keep your politics out of the military, don’t expect the military to stay out of your politics forever. Barack Obama is not the kind of leader who can long hold the respect,trust, and loyalty of professional soldiers, even ones who are inclined to vote Democrat.
On the other hand, maybe they were simply held accountable for serious misjudgements (including moral misjudgements) or complacency or mistakes in carrying out their duties. Not everything is a conspiracy.
Found this on CBC didn’t cha, Kate?
Gen. Sturdevant “was one of two commanding officers suddenly relieved of command and fired from the military for failure to use proper force protection at the camp after 15 Taliban fighters attacked Camp Bastion on Sept. 14, 2012, resulting in the deaths of Lt. Col. Christopher K. Raible, 40, and Sgt. Bradley W. Atwell, 27.”
Doesn’t “failure to use proper force protection” sound exactly like Obama’s actions (or lack thereof) with regards to Benghazi?
Yeah well, OBOZO hasn’t much edumacation….
If’n he did he would realize that although Generals are involved in coup d’état’s….it the colonels ya gotta watch…simply because there are more of them.
Colonel Nasser, Colonel Suharto, Colonel Gadafi, Colonel Sadat……and so on….
This why African potentates have such big retinues when abroad, but frequently in his absence, some colonel makes things so’s the aforementioned potentate can’t go home no mo’.
Sadam did a pretty thorough job of nailing anyone capable of over-throwing him and like Stalin created a shallow talent pool…officer-wise.
Yes. One of the critical factors that turned the tide on the Eastern Front was that the Germans were so close to winning that Stalin got desperate enough to get some guys who had been breaking rocks in the gulags and reinstate them as commanders in the Red Army.
The three or 4 names I recognize were competent battlefield commanders.
(Unlike Wesley Clark.)
But it you want an army (one you can call “my army”) that will do your bidding – say, in case of “civil unrest” – you’ll need generals you can trust.