Confusions and Disillusions

Confusions and Disillusions

Confusion is often a by-product, or the direct product, of disillusion or disenchantment. Washington and most of the rest of the nation are overflowing with all of the above these days and the causes are many.

For example, new Republican Congressman Allen West, as well as most conscious, thinking Americans, is totally flummoxed by what we are doing in Libya. As he says, “For every decision there are consequences and we have to sometimes analyze what could be those consequences. Just the same with operations in Libya–I cannot understand it. I don’t know what the goal and objective are.”

Welcome to the club, Rep. West!

Americans were told the non-war in North Africa, a “kinetic action,” in Obamaspeak, would last weeks, not months. It has lasted weeks, a whole bunch of weeks so far. with no end in sight. In our eleventh week we still don’t who the rebels are or whether they’re better or worse than Moammar Gadhafi and what, in the president’s words, what he meant when he described the adventure as a “slow, steady process.”

Perhaps even worse, West believes we are “committing our Air Force and our Navy to be kind of like a ‘rent-a- force.’ ” (http://bit.ly/ivw4h3)

I would only add to Rep. West’s observations questions such as:

. Why are we in Libya in the first place since we were never told and, since the operation began, Obama has alternated between making nice to Gadhafi and deposing him?

. Who’s really in charge since we led the assault, then deferred to NATO, yet it is American naval and air power doing the bulk of the dirty work?

. What the hell is a “kinetic action?”

I don’t expect President Obama to respond to either Rep. West or to me. We are both warmongering conservatives, we both support the Tea Party movement, and we’re both white racists despite the fact West is black.

More confusion and disenchantment with the president is emanating from, of all places, the Central Intelligence Agency, former bailywick of the man who gave the order to go get Osama bin Laden.

Veteran Democrat politician, Leon Panetta, apparently did little or nothing to interdict the witchhunt being waged by America’s Attorney General Eric Holder designed to persecute and prosecute the very people most responsible for consigning Osama to swim with the fishes until there is nothing left on his sorry carcass.

Pete Hoekstra (R,MI) former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, contends, “There is an undercurrent of ‘dissent and dislike’ for President Obama among the rank-and-file of the Central Intelligence Agency” due to Holder’s witchhunt. Holder wants to punish those CIA officers for using “enhanced interrogation techniques” to induce accused terrorists to cough up or throw up information that could protect millions of American lives.

Or, find and kill Osama, which they did.

Without using the term, hypocrisy, Hoekstra said, “And what’s really amazing is that all the things in the realm of intelligence that Obama badmouthed as a candidate in ’08, he has now embraced as President. He has been much more aggressive in the use of predator drones than the Bush Administration was. . . has acknowledged that enhanced interrogation techniques helped get the information that led to the successful raid on bin Laden’s compound. And President Obama has never closed down the U.S. operation at Guantanamo, as Candidate Obama promised to do over and over again. Under Obama, the U.S. has continued the policy of unlimited detentions and the use of military tribunals.” (http://bit.ly/jzQJyL)

Nevertheless, Holder’s . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4717)

National Insecurity, Compliments of the CIA and ODNI

National Insecurity, Compliments of the CIA and ODNI

Most objective observers knew from the outset that the Community Organizer in Chief was in way over his head when America elected Barack Hussein Obama as president based primarily on his vague promises of hope and change.

We cringed with his various czar appointments and wondered about the people he installed as protectors of our national security. Leon Panetta at age 71 was awarded the post as CIA Director even though his experience and expertise in the areas of foreign intelligence were nil and then 69 year old James R. Clapper became our Director of National Intelligence.

Panetta’s chief claim to fame were his nine terms as a California congressman from California and his 4 years as Bill Clinton’s Chief of Staff. Panetta is a nothing more than a political hack. Retired Air Force Lt. General Clapper did have an intelligence background although you’d never know it.

The CIA is charged with furnishing “intelligence (or information) to the President, the National Security Council, and all other government officials who make and carry out US national security policy.” ODNI’s responsibility is to ”Ensure that timely and objective national intelligence is provided to the President, the heads of departments and agencies of the executive branch; the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and senior military commanders; and the Congress.”

Both the CIA and ODNI have failed miserably in their stated missions.

Tweedledum Panetta and Tweedledee Clapper have jointly reinforced Malcolm X’s and Obama’s favorite pastor’s line about America’s chickens coming home to roost. Panetta and Clapper have also reminded Americans that very people who are supposed to be keeping abreast of national security issues haven’t the vaguest clue as to what’s going on in the world.

When those chickens roost, America could be toast, for all they know. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3612)