Posted on 12/10/2014 9:40:16 AM PST by duckworth
After the music stops, even for 2 weeks, it will be hard to avoid an Alas, Brave New Babylon type of outcome.
http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2013/08/26/bracken-alas-brave-new-babylon/
The Benghazi 9-11-2012 event carries some instruction about the NCA etc in times of crisis.
During the ongoing “Alamo” in Benghazi, Obama deliberately hid from dusk til dawn in order NOT to be put on the spot to either grant or withhold Cross-Border Authority (or whatever the current acronym/jargon is).
With Obama the Drone King, and the national security staff ballooning from 40 to 400, they are acutely aware of POTUS regs, protocals, etc. How many times have we read or heard about missions ready to launch that were scrubbed or delayed for days/weeks because POTUS would not grant CBA?
And when he does, almost always, the hostage is moved, or ISIS has moved, etc. “Gee, it’s almost like he is trying to help the other side.”
In any case, he sure knew that if he just hid on Benghazi night, no CBA from POTUS down the NCA, there would be zero chance of a “Black Hawk Down” fiasco/disaster/tragedy 2 weeks before the election. Better to write off “My Friend Chirs” and the other Americans on scene. A small price. They even had the standard “Team Obama False Narrative” videotape in the cabinet ready to deploy. “Look over there! Squirrel! We had nothing to do with it!”
Long winded, sorry. Obama broke with the BIGGEST BIGGEST on the hour crisis decision that ANY American fighting man would do. There is an ALAMO RIGHT NOW and we are going in heavy to rescue them! The battle lasted 10 hours, 9 hours in, it might have lasted 48 hours. Nobody knew. It could have been Americans cornered in an airport building, who knows? Y
You send the Marines. And anybody else in range. “GO!!!”
And Obama hid, to avoid giving CBA. This is really, really, dishonorable. AMERICANS ARE DYING RIGHT NOW! GIVE US PERMISSION!”
But when no CBA came, all the rescue forces held in position. No mythical General Ham sad, “Screw it! We’re going in!” And sent his rescue forces. He didn’t. None of them did.
They obeyed orders, at least. That’s not the same as obeying orders to nuke Canada, but letting Americans in an Alamo die, that’s pretty bad.
See 78.
I sure hope not but he’s doing a whole lot of other stuff on his own! Eeeeeks.
I disagree.
Very, very true. That statement became true on Jan 20, 2009
It is bad enough to display a picture of hitlery clintoon...but to top it off she is picking her nose. Classy.
“that’s pretty bad.”
They’ve done worse. It is amazing how political O-6 and above can be. When I hear people wave the flag and proclaim our military will save us in a civil war, I know for fact from history they will not. They will accept their orders or walk away.
Walk away at best. I don’t see any Hackworth’s among this crowd.
Petreuas or possibly Hagel could blow the lid off of this traitor mole regime.
Is there one man with stars (including SES) on his shoulders who has honor?
It’s not honorable at this point to defer and retire and go away quietly.
General Petreaus, where is your book?
Are millions for sitting on do-nothing boards worth the price of your last shred of honor?
-PJ
“your last shred of honor?”
General BetrayUs has no honor. Never did. He thinks with his penis. Satisfy that and he’s happy man.
Surrendering to any foreign power would be high treason. The military would undoubtedly send troops to Camp David or wherever he was hiding out, and with a little luck he’d end up “accidentally” dead. Or tried by a military court and shot.
I like to think that old embers of honor can be fanned into a flame.
It would disrupt commerce for about a week, until most of the Muslim population was either dead, imprisoned or shipped off to their middle east hellholes.
HQs and armories.
It’s a good read if you like speculative fiction.
Comrade obama is more likely to order a first strike on the United States himself in exchange for political asylum in Iran. That would save Iran a lot of money for the expense of warheads and delivery systems as well as the potential embarrassment of using nuclear devices that don’t work or are damaged in transit.
We can fantasize, though. Iran takes out two cities? Let's recall what happened to the fellows who took out two buildings and how long we persevered, and the rivers of blood we waded through, to find and punish those responsible. That's what would happen, and that part isn't a fantasy.
There would be, because there already is, a significant movement in the United States to demand surrender under the insistence that we deserved it. A movement that would last for the few weeks it would take to put the entire sorry lot up against the wall. The country might, actually, be the better for it. Those are dark fantasies and it would be better not to go there.
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