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Conceptual Issues - Military ResponsibilityIf an American should choose to fight, he or she should fight with honor. Since the People delegate resources, weapons and authority, the military should be held to a higher standard of conduct, not granted immunities, and the institutions should not waste our money. The U.S. military should seek and promote truth. That's how we would win, as long as "winning" is defined as meaningful and specific objectives by leadership. If an American should choose not to fight, that should be honored. Either way, we aim toward a world free of war. We recognize the reality that many poor Americans see themselves with only a choice only between crime and the military. It is a testament to the principles of the founding fathers that our military does as a good job forging respectable soldiers as it does, and they must be educated on those principles. We owe it to the common soldiers to embrace them when they return from war, to heal their wounds, to attempt to understand their experiences, and to listen.
Subscribe to Posts [Atom]The President is the Boss and has every right to criticize intelligence failures
Some brave people wrestled down an idiot on a plane. A man with a clear mental health problem from Nigeria who tried to blow his leg off with firecrackers, led astray by an Ali Baba, a charlatan, a false prophet.The poor idiot's own father went to the U.S. embassy in Nigeria and told them to take him seriously.
The U.S. embassy failed to take him seriously, and if entered into the database, intelligence review failed to notice an obvious threat - perhaps because people in U.S. intelligence circles are failed, lonely people who feel they can only trust in their elite circles - and not even then - dysfunctional people who do not trust their own families and cannot communicate love. Therefore, no one in those circles understood the importance of a father's love for his son, who did not want his child to hurt himself or others.
Again: not hurting people is not the mentality that people our intelligence circles choose to live by. So, they were blind to the truth presenting itself in plain language at their doorstep.
Now the intelligence community is on NPR and the BBC whining that President Obama has criticized their behavior, these fat bastards with fat contracts sitting in their fat chairs pushing buttons on Predator drones and blasting the living hell out of innocent people in pursuit of target elements assigned by their self-justifying systematic logic: a logic deliberately partial, and always denying itself knowledge of the bigger geo-political picture, denying itself knowledge of why as an excuse to become more and more violent.
Dude, shut up. You're not fooling anyone but yourself. The President is the Boss - the commander in chief, of USA agencies, embassies and bases, all over the globe, on the moon, on Mars or Europa or where ever our great nation needs to go to get the job done.
It clearly was a failure - of systematic process, but because of fundamental spiritual deficiencies in the human operators of those systems. They ought to get down on their knees and pray people in Africa and Asia are smart enough not to let some schmuck smuggle in a nuke.
As Boss of the United States, whom we People voted to make Boss, President Obama has every right to criticize and reform systematic process and to fire people who failed their basic duties as officials of the United States. Members of the public may disagree, but people in official capacity should not only shut up, they should do and say what the guy says, because he's the Boss, he's doing his job that we People hired him to do, and he's doing a great job at it because he's trying his best to do the right thing. Are you?
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