Alinsky Does Afghanistan

National Review ^ | Andrew c. McCarthy

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If there is one word that captures President Obama’s much-anticipated Afghanistan speech, it is “cynical.” Yes, the speech was also internally contradictory, counter-historical, and premised on fatally flawed assumptions about Islam and the Afghan people. Cynicism, however, is the defining feature of Obama speeches. This one was no different: from its use of the United States Military Academy as a prop to its concluding assertion that “our resolve is unwavering” . . . after the president had spent the preceding 40 minutes in full waver mode.

There are two things to bear in mind in considering any Obama speech, and they go double for those that touch on national security.

First, the president is an Alinskyite, so steeped in the ideology of the seminal community organizer that he became a top instructor in Alinskyite tactics for other up-and-coming radicals. As David Horowitz explains in an essential new pamphlet, Barack Obama’s Rules for Revolution: The Alinsky Model, Alinksyites are fifth-column radicals. They have, in substance, the same goals as open revolutionaries: overthrowing the existing free-market republic and replacing it with a radical’s utopia. That’s why Obama could befriend such unrepentant former terrorists as Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, and take inspiration from Jeremiah Wright, a black-liberation theologist. But Alinskyites are more sophisticated, patient, and practical. They bore in, hollowing out the system from within, appropriating the appearance and argot of mainstream society. Their single, animating ambition is to overthrow the capitalist social order, which they claim to see as racist, corrupt, exploitative, imperialist, etc.

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The ability of Obama to dance around a subject and try to come out sounding vaguely like he is agreeing with divergent viewpoints is amazing. Seldom, even in the history of even politics, can one man say so little of substance with so many words and make it sound so good. Interesting article, thanks for posting it. Boiled down to it's bones there is always a leftest philosophy hidden in Obama's speechs.

[y6162]

Can’t count on McCain to oppose the Kenyan’s no-win strategy. Might be called a racist. Can’t have that.

[ExcursionGuy84]

The author of this article has got this new tack of faux-Conservatism all figured-out just right:

Obama DOES NOT want to win in Afghanistan; he's only trying to sway the moderates, Independents, war hawks, CINO's and RINO's.
But, the author pointed-out something that I never noticed myself: McChrystal has NOT spoken in terms of accomplishing Victory against the Taliban. That to me is disturbing.

We the People just gotta keep-up the pressure on the administration and NOT take the "bandit steaks" which the "thief" is throwing to the watchdogs of Constitutional Liberty and Moral Foundations.

[neverdem]

BTTT!

[caww]

This is a worthy read indeed! I also didn’t realize McChrystal had NOT spoken in terms of Victory against the Taliban.

I also agree the author got it exactly right. Haven’t seen an article that nails it so well in all areas. Excellant!