I may anger any number of my readers but what is a day or a night without a challenge?

I have been having second thoughts these days, about Iraq and Afghanistan.

I am thinking that perhaps it’s time to put a fork in both of those countries; they’re done. As should be our presence there.

I am thinking that perhaps it’s time to pack up and move out.

Because I don’t think we can “win.”

I should care to explain myself further:

I don’t doubt the American Soldier, not for a microsecond. I don’t doubt his commitment, his courage, his valor, his strength, his honor, his obedience, his history. Make no mistake; it is the American Soldier that is, essentially, the savior many times over of this planet and of freedom.

But I am thinking that, if we refuse to support them logistically, if we fail to provide them with a clear mission, with clear and logical rules of engagement, with the equipment they need at the front and at home, if we fail to support them when they are injured, if we fail to support their families when they have shed blood for this country and proffered the ultimate sacrifice — but mostly — if we bind their arms and blind their eyes and still shove them out into a hail of fire and IEDs. . .

If we bind them politically and reign them in and keep them from winning. . .

. . . then is it not time to stop the further loss of our good young men and women in the military?

Is it not time to let what must be, be?

If we are not going to remove and ship oil from Iraq . . .

If we are not going to send Killer Squads into Pakistan to eliminate bin Laden . . .

If we are not going to kill five terrorists for every one soldier killed, and put their bleeding heads on sharpened sticks in public . . .

If we are not going to assault mosques and ventilate the Taliban and al Qaeda in what is, essentially, just another building . . .

If we are not going to tolerate collateral damage or casualties in any way . . .

If we demand perfection from our soldiers and expect lawlessness from our enemies, then prosecute our soldiers for being human . . .

Then we have committed ourselves to defeat and allowed our good men to die. And therefore, no more good men should die if we lack the political will to kill the enemy. Lots of people. People who deserve killing no matter where they be, no matter how they dress.

For Christ’s sake, people, we refuse to even call the enemy “the enemy.” We use euphemisms.

And then, maybe then, it really is time to pack up and go home.

BZ

Today, President Obama officially made Donald Berwick his recess appointment to be the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

In 2008 while speaking on the British health care system in the UK, Berwick said wealthy individuals must redistribute their wealth to those less fortunate for health care funding. Also during this speech, he told those in attendance that he opposes free markets.

“Any health care funding plan that is just equitable civilized and humane must, must redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent health care is by definition redistributional.”

For those members of the press who allegedly love a hot issue, here’s a story for them which involves corruption in government, intimidation of voters, conspiracies, lies, obfuscations, deflection, minimization and purposeful ignorance — up to and including malfeasance at the US Department of Justice and perhaps the White House.

What journalist wouldn’t love to break or hop onto that story?

Well, as you know, that story is here, the facts are in evidence — hell, the facts are on video — the witness statements are made and immured and. . .

. . .there is predominantly the chirping of crickets on the part of the DEM/MSM. Ho-hum. Move on (.org). Nothing to see here.

Why? you ask.

Because the story involves Bad and Evil Blacks and a Justice Department that is corrupt. In the Obama Administration. And it involves voter intimidation in poor black areas of a major US city.

And lord knows, we can’t — in the US press and media — help to expose the touchy topic of Blacks As Anything Less Than VICTIMS. Or a corrupted DOJ in the Obama Administration! Out of bounds! Out of bounds! 15 yards and loss of down!

The incident just doesn’t play to the National Media Theme of Bad Whites or Corruption in a Republican Administration — that would have been covered like a blanket from the first second of its exposure, and carried for weeks on end.

And so why won’t I — having recently addressed this incident — just leave the topic alone and move on to more pressing issues?

Because it sticks in my craw that such a heinous event involving our fundamental right to vote is so totally and purposely ignored by our national media. And it clearly, clearly proves that the media is as corrupt and untrustworthy as our federal government — as they are both in bed together, nightly rubbing each others’ backs with warm hyacinth oil and whispering soothing words into each others’ ears.

With one recent exception, from The Washington Times editorial page on Friday, July 2nd:

Editorial: media blackout for Black Panthers — Explosive racist allegations ignored by poodles in the press

Where is the New York Times? Where is The Washington Post? Where are CBS and NBC? A whistleblower makes explosive allegations about the Department of Justice; his story is backed by at least two other witnesses; and the allegations involve the two hot-button issues of race and of blatant politicization of the justice system. A potential constitutional confrontation stemming from the scandal brews between the Justice Department and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. A congressman highly respected for thoughtfulness and bipartisanship has all but accused the department of serious impropriety. By every standard of objective journalism, this adds up to real news.

Or it would be real news if a Republican Justice Department stood accused. It would be real news if the liberal media weren’t mostly in the tank for our celebrated but failing first black president.

Oh, most assuredly yes.

Above, I mentioned involvement by the White House. Oddly enough, the editorial indicates:

On a parallel track, The Washington Times has reported strong circumstantial evidence suggesting that department officials may have consulted the White House before dismissing the case. That possibility, too, cries out for investigation.

The editorial logically concludes:

These broad policy questions and suggestions of political chicanery are important. Do we have a nation of laws equally applied to all, or is justice being reduced to raw politics? Investigating such questions is the essence of the news business. Failure to look into such a scandal is evidence of the institutional corruption of the much-ballyhooed “fourth branch of government,” a supposedly independent media.

An “independent media”?

Don’t make me laugh.

I find, these days, the real truths and facts are unearthed more in foreign media than my own.

BZ

When will the American People begin to tire of Mr Obama pointing the DC finger (or perhaps giving the finger) to everyone save himself and his administration?

Or perhaps more accurately, how will his continued blame-shifting antics play come November?

(CNN) — When signs of a severe economic downfall emerged more than two years ago, then-candidate Barack Obama was quick to point a finger at the man he hoped to replace.

Seventeen months into his administration, the message is often the same, and Republicans say it’s time for him to drop the Bush bashing and take ownership of the problem.

Mr Obama has had more than adequate time, at the helm, to grip the wheel with both hands and begin to alter the country’s course towards more economic certainty.

Instead, he has purposely chosen to attempt to “re-live Europe in the 90s” all over again with his clearly Socialist, Alinsky, Ayers, Cloward-Piven, Reverend Wright ways. At the time, when, Europe is finally beginning to both recognize and then correct the error of its Socialist ways.

Again, as in someone with NPD, it is never about any possible mistakes Mr Obama may have made; oh no.

It is, instead, all about the mistakes made by everyone but him.

I submit: this tactic’s “ability to play” is just about entirely played out.

BZ