Comments on: Iraq Clearly NOT a Distraction from bin Laden Hunt

By: bdwilcox

bdwilcox — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:43:30 +0000

You’re right Steve, I’ll let it die. Good sparring with you, Total. –bw

By: Steve Coad

Steve Coad — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:07:12 +0000

“By the way, when someone on your side says the above, what it really means is that I

By: Steve Coad

Steve Coad — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:00:59 +0000

BD,
You should let him off the mat. He has even stated that “This is like a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent” so show some mercy and move on before he has a heart attack.

By: Steve Coad

Steve Coad — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:37:14 +0000

“Really? You really want to go the intelligence route after 8 years of Bush? Y’all support the dumbest president *ever* and now you’re getting huffy about smarts?“
Total,
Someone has offended your sense of pride and I certainly hope it was not me. Having been out for a couple of days I don’t want to go back through all of the posts so please help me out by finding where I’ve claimed Bush was a great intellectual. In fact if you have a careful eye you will find where I stated “spent like a drunken Kennedy, streched things way too thin”. Of course I will support him until he is out of office and then will support president elect Obama when he is sworn is as our president. It is not my duty as an American to agree with either of them but Bush has been our president the last 8 years and Obama will be our president for at least the next 4, maybe 8 so we had BETTER support him. I am certain that I’ve not insulted you but Speaker Pelosi is a public figure (like W and Obama) and is fair game. I truly believe she is one of the least intelligent members of the House. Surely you are not Speaker Pelosi posting with a ghost name. While it is entertaining to read your responses and see how upset you are I feel it is time to move to another post that has to do with defense.
Christian,
Sorry to perpetuate the political noise. I’ll try to leave it alone for a while. It was a timely article that provided tons of entertainment. Perhaps you could start a new blog; PoliTech.

By: Wembley

Wembley — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:16:38 +0000

“If you mean a guy who avoided military service “
No, the draft-dodger was the other one, that W guy.
“a sparse resume working with the Chicago political and crime bosses“
That’ll be politics. Presidents have to be good at it.
“who were endorsed by all of America’s recognized enemies“
What, all of them ?
I think you mean, people who you don’t like — the other 95% of the world, in fact — rate him highly too.
The American people chose Obama. I suspect they chose wisely — but that you will never give him any credit whatever he does.

By: bdwilcox

bdwilcox — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:32:30 +0000

From the Army War College’s professional reading list, Ward Churchill certainly wouldn’t be out of place. Noam Chomsky(!?!?!), Bob Woodward, Thomas Friedman, a whole host of left-wing New York Times and Washington Post reporters, etc. Good grief.
http://www.carlisle.army.mil/library/professional_reading_lists.htm
I realize for someone of your towering intellect this might be hard for you to grasp, but the Army War College obviously tries to expose its students to a full range of thought from liberal to conservative for the purposes of academic inquiry. Jeffrey Record is one of the leftist academics; he was a visiting research
fellow at the Air War College and they published his work as an ACADEMIC OPINION PIECE.
Unfortunately, propagandists like you then hold it up and say, “Look, look, the Army War college disagrees with BusHitler!!!1!“
This is like a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.

By: Total

Total — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:43:57 +0000

“-Look Einstein, I hate to point this out because it’s so glaringly obvious, but these articles are the academic opinion pieces of individuals, not the opinions or policies of the school, the government, or the military.“
Look, genius, I hate to point this out because it’s so glaringly obvious, but do you really think that the Army War College is going to publish just *any* academic opinion piece? Ward Churchill got something coming up in Parameters, does he?
In fact, Record’s thinking was so distinct from the Army War College’s that they went ahead and published one of his books:
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/display.cfm?pubID=207
No, the reality is that Hussein and Bin Laden hated each other, and the linkage between the two was a fantasy created by the Bush Administration to stampede the American people into supporting the invasion of Iraq. Five years later and you’re still stampeding, right off the cliff. What you may not have noticed is that you’ve only got a few people left with you, and it’s a long fall.

By: bdwilcox

bdwilcox — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:05:09 +0000

“Shockingly, Record (and the Air Force and the Army War College) might be more interested in _the truth_ than partisan posturing. I realize that’s just a crazy thing to say, but see if you can absorb it.“
–The guy worked for left-wing think-tanks and partisan Democrats who opposed the Gulf War, he constantly denigrates the administration as a bunch of “neo-cons” and then goes on to publish a paper that attempts to undermine the credibility of a war that administration is currently engaged in. But he’s just seeking the truth…
“and they stumbled, blindly, in the darkness.”

By: Total

Total — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:39:26 +0000

“the Parameters article/Jeffrey Record“
And yet, Dr. Record appears to be employed by that liberal bastion, the Air War College. Damnit! I knew there was something suspicious about the U.S. Air Force.
And _Parameters_, the official journal of the Army War College? I’m shocked. Now we have to worry about 2 of the services being captive of the vast left-wing conspiracy?
Oh, and gee, Record has written a review of Moyar’s book. It’s pretty harsh, but on both sides: Record thinks that both Moyar and the “liberal orthodoxy” are “ideologically contaminated. Pretty harsh, but hardly the words of a crazed left-winger.
(http://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/ssq/bookreviews/moyar.pdf)
Shockingly, Record (and the Air Force and the Army War College) might be more interested in _the truth_ than partisan posturing. I realize that’s just a crazy thing to say, but see if you can absorb it.

By: Total

Total — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:37:48 +0000

“you’re“
Should have been ‘your.’