Gimme one more chance

usamamasan1

Heard retired Gen. Jack Keane interviewed today. He said pre-9/11 the U.S. Middle East policy was "Containment". Post 9/11, Bush changed that to "Confrontation". Obama has pursued, but not articulated, a policy of gradual "Disengagement". My observation is that the vacuum created by U.S. disengagement is being filled by radical islamic forces and the rogue state of Iran. If the U.S. further disengages, the Chinese and Russians will also try to fill the vacuum, and the U.S. will be at greater risk. Disengagement is not a successful policy. The U.S. needs a blend of Containment and limited, targeted Confrontation - only when necessary. No nation building. No occupations. Link U.S. financial and military aid offered to these states to firm enforceable commitments that serve American interests. In the words of Winston Churchill, "We have no permanent allies, only permanent interests."

OBAMA FLASHBACK: THE DAY I'M INAUGURATED MUSLIM HOSTILITY WILL EASE

Then-Senator Barack Obama makes the case for an Obama Presidency on November 21, 2007 by saying he is uniquely qualified to bring stability to America's relationships in the Muslim world because he lived in an Islamic country during his youth and his half-sister is Muslim.

brianlux

We keep hearing about how Obama has not done the job" from people who insist Woot Romney would do a better job. That's really interesting. Scratch, scratch, scratch.

usamamasan1

Listen to Obamas words. That is what he is good at. Words.

Give it a try, so many are hooked. Try it once, first ones free. Then you have to pay.

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2 ... -Will-Ease








Educated enough to be smart, smart enough not to be educated.


Woot

Thirty Bills Unpaid

Obama never weaved a miracle to pull your country out of the shitstorm it found itself in after your party's regime dragged it to levels unimaginable.

Seems like progress is being made in my mind. Of course, party loyalties run deep and memories run short. There was no quick fix to the deep rooted problems your country developed the previous decade before Obama seized the helm.

Af a bare minimum, Obama deserves 4 more years for the simple fact that it would be impossible to gauge any successor's effectiveness given the depth of failures the previous regime left.

usamamasan1

Believe in America

Romney/Ryan


Woot

brianlux

usamamasan1 wrote:

Believe in America

Romney/Ryan


Woot

America is a dichotomy and in some ways is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma, but , yeah, it's real.

I don't know about Romney/Ryan- I actually think they're probably cyborgs- but I believe in you man because you have staying power and you're consistent. I little out to lunch maybe, but who am I to talk?

mickeyrat

brianlux wrote:

usamamasan1 wrote:

Believe in America

Romney/Ryan


Woot

America is a dichotomy and in some ways is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma, but , yeah, it's real.

I don't know about Romney/Ryan- I actually think they're probably cyborgs- but I believe in you man because you have staying power and you're consistent. I little out to lunch maybe, but who am I to talk?

there wa sno one left for him to get behind!! But I guess switching candidates like he has , has shown consistancy.

usamamasan1

An intelligence source on the ground in Libya told Fox News that there was no demonstration outside the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi prior to last week's attack -- challenging the Obama administration's claims that the assault grew out of a "spontaneous" protest against an anti-Islam film.

The intelligence source said no protests were happening before the attackers struck at about 9:35 p.m. local time last Tuesday. The account backs up claims by a purported Libyan security guard who told McClatchy Newspapers late last week that the area was quiet before the attack.

"There wasn't a single ant outside," the unnamed guard, who was being treated in a hospital, said in the interview.

These details appear to conflict with accounts from the Obama administration that the attack spawned from an out-of-control protest. The Libyan president also said Sunday that the strike was planned in advance.

But a senior Obama administration official told Fox News on Monday morning that the Libyan president's comments are not consistent with "the consensus view of the U.S. intelligence community," which has been investigating the incident, and are accordingly not credible.

"He doesn't have the information we have," the U.S. official said of Libyan President Mohammed el-Megarif. ""He doesn't have the (data) collection potential that we have."

The Libyan leader told CBS News' "Face the Nation" on Sunday that the government in Tripoli harbors "no doubt" that the Sept. 11 attack that killed U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans was "preplanned, predetermined." That assessment conflicted directly with the preliminary conclusion offered on Sunday by U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, who appeared on all five Sunday morning talk shows.

There, Rice maintained that the Benghazi incident "was a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired in Cairo, as a consequence of the video," and that after the protest outside the U.S. consulate gathered steam, "those with extremist ties joined the fray and came with heavy weapons."

Asked if the timing of the Benghazi incident - the eleventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks -- was simply a coincidence, the senior U.S. official said on Monday: "It is coincidental. All evidence we have points to this video being the spark of these events. In all of the intel and traffic, there was no one out there saying, 'Oh, it's September 11th, we must avenge...'"

The senior U.S. official added that this is "the consensus view of the U.S. intelligence community at this point," and that Rice "was not out there volunteering her own opinions."

The official also discounted as "not accurate" reports that staff at U.S. embassy in Egypt warned the State Department -- in a cable purportedly sent on the afternoon of Sept. 10 -- about the effect the anti-Islam video was having, and the likelihood of violent protests in Cairo, but received no response from Washington.

"There was cable traffic, involving discussion of the video and the potential for protests, the Embassy was aware," the U.S. official told Fox News. "There were discussions about protests between the relevant agencies -- intel and State -- but the idea that there was no response from State is false."

Officials at the State Department and the White House continue to express satisfaction with the cooperation they are receiving from foreign governments in the protection of American diplomats and their families. This is said to be especially the case in those instances where President Obama has reached out to foreign heads of state, namely Egypt, Yemen and Libya.

Still, the State Department over the weekend -- in a shift of plans that occurred sometime after Friday evening -- announced the evacuation of diplomats' family members and "non-essential" personnel from U.S. Embassies in Tunisia and Sudan, sites of some of the most violent scenes on Friday.



Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09 ... z26kUMuy32

FattyFatCat

mickeyrat wrote:

I want details on all his points. Economic(tax plan?) foriegn policy( seems to be Fuck You we're America, look how big our dick is)

Doesnt matter though, he is showing himself to be a hothead shooting off his mouth. That kind of shit is only going to make things worse on the world stage. Fuck Him. Let him go count the money he's not paying taxes on.

Oh... the irony here...

usamamasan1

"The president's foreign policy, in my opinion, is formed in part by a perception he has that his magnetism, and his charm, and his persuasiveness is so compelling that he can sit down with people like (Vladimir) Putin and (Hugo) Chávez and (Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad, and that they'll find that we're such wonderful people that they'll go on with us, and they'll stop doing bad things," Romney says. "And it's an extraordinarily naive perception."

DS1119

usamamasan1 wrote:

"There are two ways to conquer & enslave a nation.

One is by the sword.

the other is by debt." John Adams 1826





"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America 's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America 's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, "the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren.America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."
~ Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006

Four more years of this? I think Romeny has earned my vote.

WOOT

Oh snap.

DS1119

usamamasan1 wrote:

An intelligence source on the ground in Libya told Fox News that there was no demonstration outside the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi prior to last week's attack -- challenging the Obama administration's claims that the assault grew out of a "spontaneous" protest against an anti-Islam film.

The intelligence source said no protests were happening before the attackers struck at about 9:35 p.m. local time last Tuesday. The account backs up claims by a purported Libyan security guard who told McClatchy Newspapers late last week that the area was quiet before the attack.

"There wasn't a single ant outside," the unnamed guard, who was being treated in a hospital, said in the interview.

These details appear to conflict with accounts from the Obama administration that the attack spawned from an out-of-control protest. The Libyan president also said Sunday that the strike was planned in advance.

But a senior Obama administration official told Fox News on Monday morning that the Libyan president's comments are not consistent with "the consensus view of the U.S. intelligence community," which has been investigating the incident, and are accordingly not credible.

"He doesn't have the information we have," the U.S. official said of Libyan President Mohammed el-Megarif. ""He doesn't have the (data) collection potential that we have."

The Libyan leader told CBS News' "Face the Nation" on Sunday that the government in Tripoli harbors "no doubt" that the Sept. 11 attack that killed U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans was "preplanned, predetermined." That assessment conflicted directly with the preliminary conclusion offered on Sunday by U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, who appeared on all five Sunday morning talk shows.

There, Rice maintained that the Benghazi incident "was a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired in Cairo, as a consequence of the video," and that after the protest outside the U.S. consulate gathered steam, "those with extremist ties joined the fray and came with heavy weapons."

Asked if the timing of the Benghazi incident - the eleventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks -- was simply a coincidence, the senior U.S. official said on Monday: "It is coincidental. All evidence we have points to this video being the spark of these events. In all of the intel and traffic, there was no one out there saying, 'Oh, it's September 11th, we must avenge...'"

The senior U.S. official added that this is "the consensus view of the U.S. intelligence community at this point," and that Rice "was not out there volunteering her own opinions."

The official also discounted as "not accurate" reports that staff at U.S. embassy in Egypt warned the State Department -- in a cable purportedly sent on the afternoon of Sept. 10 -- about the effect the anti-Islam video was having, and the likelihood of violent protests in Cairo, but received no response from Washington.

"There was cable traffic, involving discussion of the video and the potential for protests, the Embassy was aware," the U.S. official told Fox News. "There were discussions about protests between the relevant agencies -- intel and State -- but the idea that there was no response from State is false."

Officials at the State Department and the White House continue to express satisfaction with the cooperation they are receiving from foreign governments in the protection of American diplomats and their families. This is said to be especially the case in those instances where President Obama has reached out to foreign heads of state, namely Egypt, Yemen and Libya.

Still, the State Department over the weekend -- in a shift of plans that occurred sometime after Friday evening -- announced the evacuation of diplomats' family members and "non-essential" personnel from U.S. Embassies in Tunisia and Sudan, sites of some of the most violent scenes on Friday.



Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09 ... z26kUMuy32

Doesn't matter. The Big O has a knack for trying to make military operations sound more "heroic" than they actually are. Where's that "Seal" book?

Prince Of Dorkness

In summation...



We now return you to more of the same.

PJ_Soul

Why is Clint Eastwood being quoted as though he actually knows anything? As far as I know, he's revered for his talent in the movie industry, not for his wisdom in socio-economics.