BALTIMORE, Maryland June 16, 2014 - For the average American, the idea of giving away, without so much as an angry whimper, a country thousands of USA Soldiers gave their lives for, is a pure anathema. It strikes to the core of our souls as purely and simply wrong, really wrong, wrong to the point of being perverted. A patriot who disagrees with the initial incursion in Iraq fights the good fight until the decision to incur is made, until troops are on the ground, until lives are lost, but then the Patriot backs off and honors the eternal sacrifice of the brave. At any rate, we learned that even if Iraq wasn't the best choice to incur against 9/11's evil, the evil picked up and came to Iraq to fight us there. The battle between good and evil ended up being fought in Iraq.
The Patriot does what needs to be done to continue that course. When he - and we speak here of Obama - withdraws at what he deems the end of the fight, and leaves no contingent behind to maintain the final victory he claims, when he dares to call what we left Iraq as one of the great accomplishments of his first term, he makes a pact with the brave to do what must be done to ensure he was correct. He rejected good advice that told him that the souls of the brave would be trampled by evil if no one was left behind to protect it, he pledges to right the wrong if it turns out to be the wrong that was predicted all along. In fact, the wrong that has actually occurred in Iraq is far worse than the wrong predicted; the wrong that has occurred sees pure evil unleashed again over Iraq, butchering and murdering the innocents again and again, with no sign or hint of stopping until all that resist it are extinguished. The evil unleashed over Iraq and trampling over the souls of the brave was dispatched directly from Hell's center hall. And yet our President, true to his far far left core, does nothing but contemplate options which no longer exist. Many in attaining the maturity that comes in living a life realize that the good predicted by utter far left dogma does not exist. There is no utopia at the end of the far left rainbow, only crushed promises, crushed dreams, stale realities. The mature, given the opportunity to see, first hand, the utter failure of far left dogma, understand that the far left rainbow never existed.
But Obama has shown time and again that he is not prepared to tamp down his eqo enough to permit learn life's hard lessons to take root in his being. He has seen far left dogma put to the test of actual implementation, not from afar but firsthand, by him, in his own presidency. He has witnessed its failures first hand. He has lived the failures of far left dogma up close and personal. But despite life's most intense and direct teaching, he will not even attempt to comprehend the inevitable truth. He has refused to acknowledge reality. Now, in the face of pure evil in Iraq, the hanging and murdering, raping and torturing of innocents, Obama cannot bring himself to act. Back home, in America, he has seen first hand what happens when far left economic policy is implemented. It does not work. In fact, it cannot work. It can never work. But despite direct hands-on witness, he has not learned.
He is one of the sorry few that refuse to learn, refuse, in fact, to even acknowledge reality. He steadfastly refuses to acknowledge that he has been wrong. He will not look his failures in the eye, courageously call them what they are, learn and move on. And so the people who elected him, and then elected him again - proving conclusively that the litany of failures is by no means confined to the Oval Office - suffer, predictably, yes, even certainly, for their duplicated mistakes. There is no shame in failure. There is no shame in saying that I failed, I was wrong. But I have learned and now I will change course so that I - We - can succeed. There is pure nobleness in admitting mistakes so long as the admission is genuine and joined with new and improved approaches to the tremendous problems at hand.
This harsh reality check still leaves the question of Iraq. This is how I see it and I admit I probably and not correct in each conclusion.
Was the initial incursion a mistake? To this day I cannot say for sure. There had been a evil done to America. Over 3000 innocents had been senselessly extinguished, and the intended toll was far higher and would have been were it not for a vast array of brave Americans who risked and gave their own lives to save thousands more from certain death. They ran back into skyscrapers about to fall, helping thousands to escape who would not have. They attacked armed hijackers, bringing down a jet that had become a flying bomb, thereby saving thousands of more lives. They attacked the incubation rooms of the evil, ending more attacks and murders before they started. Whether the attack on Iraq was the best place to incur is debatable. This much is true, however: once the incursion began, evil Islamic Radicals from throughout the Middle East Descended on Iraq so that they could do battle with the free world and, especially, America. If the fight wasn't in Baghdad and Mosul and Tikrit, it would have been in other locations and there is no telling what those places would have been. They could have been in America if the fight wasn't taken to them. This much we have certainly learned.
Once the battle in Iraq was joined, it had to be won. The first years were difficult and discouraging. Democrats, including the ludicrous Harry Reed, said the was had been lost. Dick Durbin, the Senator from Illinois, compared American Soldiers to Pol Pot. But President Bush and his commanders came to grips with their errors and announced and implemented a new battle plan called The Surge. His detractors, including Obama, screamed louder still, but in the end the plan was brilliant and the victory was all but won. Free elections were held and held again and each time Democracy took a deeper hold in Iraq. Women, the bane of the Islamic Radical Movement, voted in the thousands and dipped their fingers in Ink to prove to one and all that they wanted to be free of repression. All that remained was consolidating the victory. President Bush began to draw down our forces. But then President Obama cam to power and he expedited the draw down. When the elected Iraqi leaders would not agree to Obama's terms Obama removed all American Forces, leaving a vacuum of just power. Military leaders warned against this, some so openly that it ended their careers. But in America we place the authority of our elected leaders over that of our military leaders, and President Obama got what he wanted. He and his Vice President said that Iraq was fully capable of taking care of itself. Evil poured back in to fill the vacuum left by the departing American power. We in America, at least those of us without access to real intelligence, feared Iran would fill this void. If only that were true. Instead, the vacuum was filled by Islamic Radicals so violent and so lacking in any moral character that even the evil organization Al Qaeda denounced it and refused to be part of it. This was said to have been known by Obama many months ago, but he did nothing. Instead, the evil swept up large portions of Iraq, butchering and murdering, torturing and wasting humanity at every turn. Now, at the eleventh hour, when Iran has dispatched military forces and the Kurds have dispatched military strength, but neither has shown signs of abating evil's debauched march, Obama continues his public vacillation. Over the weekend he let it be known that he went golfing and then fundraising on the West Coast, even as the pillage of Iraq continued all but unabated.
Steps to take in Iraq: Today, now, immediately, launch unmanned attacks (Drones and Cruise Missle) on the Radical Islamic Forces on the march in Iraq. At first, the emphasis should be buying time, debilitating the evil's ability to advance, and, if possible in some places, pushing it back. The prize in the fight, publicly if not actually, is Baghdad. When we attack with unmanned weapons, we will learn if they have any ability to resist air attacks. If we can destroy any such ability we can bring actual air power to bear. Be ready to rescue any downed plane without hesitation. Prisoners would be catastrophic. If the effort to prevent the fall of Baghdad is successful, hard decisions would then have to be made as to what, and by whom, will happen next. Do we want Baghdad protected by Iran? The point is, at this juncture, negotiation and diplomacy has a real purpose and place. Now, if we watch Baghdad fall to Islamic Radicals, with all of the concomitant evil that would go with it, we will have shown the world that in this day and age we are helpless in the face of evil. Is this an admission we are prepared to make?
Baseball: the Orioles and Blue Jays Split a Weekend Series
The Orioles and Blue Jays split their four game series in Baltimore over the weekend, surprising the wag at ESPN who said the Blue Jays were running away with the Division Race. It's isn't that it can't happen. The Blue Jays have stronger starting pitching than even they could have hoped for, while the Orioles starting pitching has been up and down. Here are the standings in the American League East, up-to-the-minute:
1. Toronto Blue Jays: 41 wins, 30 losses, .577 pct
2. Baltimore Orioles: 35 wins, 33 losses, .515 pct, 4.5 games behind
2. New York Yankees: 35 wins, 33 losses, .515 pct, 4.5 games behind
4. Boston Red Sox: 31 wins, 38 losses, .449 pct, 9 games behind
5. Tampa Bay Rays: 27 wins, 43 losses, .386 pct, 13.5 games behind
American League East Schedule for Monday, June 16
Toronto Blue Jays are idle, June 17: Toronto at New York Yankees, 7:05 pm
Baltimore Orioles at Tampa Bay Rays, 7:10 pm
New York Yankees are idle, June 17: home v. Toronto
Minnesota Twins at Boston Red Sox, 7:10 pm
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