Haven’t done this in a while … lots to cover …
To begin with, I’ll try a little positive. I don’t have a problem with Obama’s Iraq policy. At some point, we have to leave and let democracy work or fail. In some ways, we have been more successful in Iraq than even Afghanistan. But short of staying in Iraq another 20 years, we cannot assure long term success. There is still a lot of instability in Iraq and democracy could fail. But that region has been quite unstable for the past few thousand years. I don’t know if that will change anytime soon.
Interesting to me that Obama is going to focus on Afghanistan now. I would have predicted a withdrawal from that country, too. Obama will have to man up and work some stuff out with Pakistan to really have success in Afghanistan, so we’ll see how far he’s willing to go.
An overall pre-WWII appeasement attitude by Obama, very Clinton-like, hasn’t been all that encouraging. Obama got props for handling the Somali pirate situation, but anyone who’s looked a little closer knows, he had nothing to do with that decision. It was an on-site decision by the SEAL commander because he felt the hostage’s life was in danger. Fairly standard procedure. But being the political person Obama is, he will take credit and try to work the military image while he downsizes the military.
Something you may not have heard about: an independent study on school vouchers in DC proved that they worked. Only the Obama administration didn’t release the findings until after the vote on the issue so the Dems could lie and say it wasn’t working. Oops. Wouldn’t want education to improve for those inner city poor kids, would we. My prediction? We’ll see billions more dollars in education pumped into public schools by this administration … and the gubmint schoos will still fail.
The proposed closing of Gitmo is a struggle for me. On the one hand, even though they might have saved lives by getting good intel, I’m not sure how I can support some of the techniques used as acceptable for moral people to do to another human being. On the other hand, to close down the whole place seems to invite disaster. What happens when one of those guys is responsible for a mjor terrorist attack on our country (or anywhere, for that matter)? I would put it in the highly probable category. Gitmo has probably done some good, too.
One last note. The Dems and the Obama administration are pushing this Mother’s Act bill. They are very sneaky … saying it is bill to protect against internet sexual predators for children … which it addresses … but it also has a major psych evaluation that mothers would have to take and pass before leaving the hospital with their children. If failed, they might not be able to take their baby home … or they could be given major anti-depression meds.
Let me get this straight. Some moments before the birth, the mother could have made the decision to have the baby cut into pieces in teh womb or have its brains sucked out, and her sanity is not questioned at that point? She is allowed, unencumbered in any way by this administration, to kill a baby in the womb at any time up to the birth … actually, this administration has sought and will continue to seek to fund such a monstrous procedure. But actually wanting to take your baby home is grounds to question your sanity.
I think I’m moving to Texas.
Peace.