CLOSE OUT: Everything Must Go

Knowing and comprehending are two entirely different animals. Caring is a third. We actually don’t know what POTUS knows. We’ve never seen his college transcripts. We don’t know what courses he’s taken. It’s all a closely guarded secret.

What we do know is that POTUS has a short attention span. He does not absorb new material readily. He has a flair for spectacle and self-promotion. Hu Jintao knows that something in America has gone terribly wrong. He has come to see for himself.

I do not agree with John Batchelor that the Chinese leader sees himself or his leadership either as fragile or illegitimate. There are templates out there other than ‘democracy’. In fact, democracy seems to be on the wane the world over. It has lost favor in the same way that capitalism has. This is in large part because we’ve abused ours.

There has even been the suggestion that our very own government (under Clinton) gave away military secrets to the Chinese with full approval of the military itself. Why? Because they thought in doing so they could exact more funding from the Congress to build even bigger and better projects. Corruption everywhere.

In fact, ‘democracy’ has always been a shill for power. Power is all that ever really mattered. Since Obama, our power (under the guise of ‘democracy’) has been proclaimed illegitimate. Our enemies have been singing this tune for a long time. This is the first time we ourselves have picked up the refrain.

To view Obama as impotent, derelict or incompetent is a mistake. He is doing exactly what he set out to do. The world’s leaders are beginning to take note. Hu Jintao is no exception. The doors to the whore house have been thrown wide open. The gang rape of America is on. Everyone gets what they want.

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Petraeus: Between A Rock And...

Gen. Petraeus is between a rock and a hard place. He’s been given a job in which the only outcome can be failure. He is aware of that. The soldier in him would never allow him to say so publicly.

POTUS knows it too. He is quite prepared to sacrifice Petraeus when things begin to go come apart. By sacrificing Petraeus, he also sacrifices the military - a win-win for Obama: two birds with one stone.

POTUS has no intention in winning abroad. His only interest is in winning at home. Some would call it ‘failing’ To Obama, however, failure is a win. That is why Petaeus and Obama will never see eye to eye. They don’t speak the same language.

Petraeus is a patriot; Obama isn’t. Nothing more need be said.

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Honorable Men

In order to advance his agenda overseas, Obama has had to choose an honorable man. Petraeus is faced with a moral dilemma. Should he support his Commander-in-Chief in a fool’s errand, or resign his commission? He chose to attempt the impossible. In doing so, he has sown the seeds of his own demise. He bears the praise of those who once cursed him and who will curse him again. He has chosen to fall on his sword in the name of honor (as defined by the military code of conduct).

This is not to say that what McChrystal did was not honorable. In his own way, he succeeded in drawing attention to a losing cause. Neither man considered the dearth of honor in Washington. Neither man considered the possibility of Barack Hussein Obama heading up a rogue government on the home front. Neither man gave consideration to what Obama’s true motive may be: the humiliation and ultimate destruction of the American military.

Petraeus will never think outside the box of total allegiance to the military which continues to give him meaning and purpose at the height of his career. He will defer to his civilian commander even if the latter chooses to use the military as a pocket knife for the stated purpose of bringing down a building. The building may in fact still stand, even after the knife has been irreparably ruined.

Father Henri Kremer in Volker Schloendorff’s film “The Ninth Day” faced a similar dilemma. Rather than submitting to the Nazi demand that he bring his religion in line with current realities, he chose to remain true to his church and, above all, to his conscience. Kremer survived.