By Mr. Curmudgeon
If President Obama’s Nerf Pentagon is looking for a new slogan for its wartime air force in Afghanistan, it won’t be “death from above.” Nancy A. Youssef, reporting for McClatchy Newspapers, says, “Instead of airstrikes, airmen increasingly are searching for places they can drop bombs that can be heard and felt, but where they’re unlikely to damage buildings or hurt people.” Vietnam may have provided the textbook for America’s no-win-wars, but Obama and General Stanley McChrystal seem determined to make Afghanistan a pain and damage-free (at least for the Taliban and Al Qaeda) pyrotechnic show with all the no-win-war aspects still reserved for the good old U.S. of A.
It’s hard be believe that jihadists willing to fly hijacked airplanes into skyscrapers and detonate explosives strapped to their bodies will be shaken by American ordnance exploding on vacant lots. Why not just bring home the troops and broadcast recordings of Nancy Pelosi’s grating voice at the Taliban. If that doesn’t drive them to blow themselves up where they stand, nothing will.
International jihad’s chief terror exporter, Iran, is nearly finished building a nuclear weapon. According to Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine, “Experts believe that Iran’s scientists could produce a primitive, truck-sized version of the bomb this year, but that it would have to be compressed to a size that would fit into a nuclear warhead to yield the strategic threat potential that has Israel and the West so alarmed — and that they could reach that stage by sometime between 2012 and 2014.”
Meanwhile, the Reuters News Service reports, “A U.S. attempt to shoot down a ballistic missile mimicking an attack from Iran failed after a malfunction in a radar built by Raytheon Co…” We’re still awaiting Janet Napolitano’s announcement that “the system worked.”
President Obama’s 2011 $3.8 trillion dollar budget increases government funding for education and “clean energy technology,” says the New York Times, but “shows some restraint on the defense budget…” That Obama and his Nerf Pentagon’s plan to drop expensive smart bombs on empty Afghan fields is nothing short of dumb. When will Americans get serious by electing representatives that take the Islamic threat seriously?
