My God I am so sick and tired of hearing people reference Obama's use of drones as proof that he's tough on terror - and it's not just liberals making this claim in defense of their chosen one, conservatives do it too as a means of trying to say something positive about Obama's approach to foreign policy - does it really not occur to any of these people that that's exactly why Obama has embraced such a small footprint, in the shadows, leading from behind tactic? So that he can pull America back as a leader of the free world while pretending that's not exactly what he's doing? That is the whole point of his embrace of drones - liberals like him see American power as a bad thing, as something that must be suppressed, a sentiment which is behind their absurd refusal to refer to Islamic extremism as Islamic extremism - reliance on drones is an utterly insufficient approach to such a large threat - but they don't want to acknowledge the threat because that acts as justification for the use of American military might - so rather than upgrading the response they downgrade the threat. Over reliance on drones is a perfect reflection of Obama's disdain for American power - and for the life of me I do not understand how it is so many people fail to grasp this. Drones are tactical instruments meant to serve a strategic end - but Obama has no strategic end aside from leading from behind and pulling America back - therefore his use of drones is virtually pointless, unless of course you see it for what it is: a shell game, a show he's putting on to convince the gullible that he isn't exactly what he is - a feckless uber liberal who disdains conventional conceptions of American power.
And he's not gonna change - so all those people out there anxiously wringing their hands in expectation of that are fooling themselves - people like him are not amenable to change - indeed there may be nothing more resistant to change than vain ideologues fuelled by the fancies of an arrogant idealism - such people are not only convinced of their superiority their philosophies are absolutely dependent on that conviction because their beliefs are a house of cards that cannot admit to a single doubt for fear the whole presumptive fantasy comes tumbling down - that's why people like this are so good at surrounding themselves with sycophants who ruthlessly keep truth from the door. There's nothing more frightening to the vain delusions of the idealist than empirical facts.
Why do you think Gates and Panetta said what they said in their books? They know this guy is not fit to be Commander in Chief of a superpower like America - they know that his inner circle, Jarrett and Rice etc, the only people he apparently deigns to listen to, are utterly misguided in their foreign policy thinking and practice and probably just parrot the nonsense they know he wants to hear - they probably felt or hoped that by speaking up they could bring about some kind of change - no way, just don't see it - pigs will fly first. At best, at best you'll see some theatrics meant to counter the image of weakness - but that's all it will be, political theatre designed to do one thing: protect Obama.
And he's not gonna change - so all those people out there anxiously wringing their hands in expectation of that are fooling themselves - people like him are not amenable to change - indeed there may be nothing more resistant to change than vain ideologues fuelled by the fancies of an arrogant idealism - such people are not only convinced of their superiority their philosophies are absolutely dependent on that conviction because their beliefs are a house of cards that cannot admit to a single doubt for fear the whole presumptive fantasy comes tumbling down - that's why people like this are so good at surrounding themselves with sycophants who ruthlessly keep truth from the door. There's nothing more frightening to the vain delusions of the idealist than empirical facts.
Why do you think Gates and Panetta said what they said in their books? They know this guy is not fit to be Commander in Chief of a superpower like America - they know that his inner circle, Jarrett and Rice etc, the only people he apparently deigns to listen to, are utterly misguided in their foreign policy thinking and practice and probably just parrot the nonsense they know he wants to hear - they probably felt or hoped that by speaking up they could bring about some kind of change - no way, just don't see it - pigs will fly first. At best, at best you'll see some theatrics meant to counter the image of weakness - but that's all it will be, political theatre designed to do one thing: protect Obama.
