“Unilateral preemptive concession”

a LONG while ago i said turkey, iraq, afghanistan, pakistan, make a one country line in the sand preventing movement of the material that destabilizes and manufactures crisis!!!! and i said that since bush was threatening to spike the door shut, by removing the three players iraq, afghanistan, and finally iran, that everything was going to heat up so much, we are all going to want to get out of the kitchen.

Artfldgr Says:
April 9th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
http://www.neoneocon.com/2008/04/08/war-and-peace-and-the-dog-who-didnt-bark#comment-63467

go ahead and read it…
i was even talking about gold prices…

and i even mentioned why afghanistan would be a big problem:
Some 60 tonnes of heroin a year pass through Tajikistan with the assistance of part of the Tajik political elite and senior Russian military officers stationed as members of a Russian force on the border according to Anton Surikov, a Russian official with close links to Russian military intelligence.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/corrupt-russian-officers-profit-in-heroin-trade-752880.html

i laid it out…
and that was before obama was even elected.

heck, sergey and i argued a bit on the quality of weaponry… as of this week or last week they announced that it will be replaced shortly… duh

given that history has shown that they like to build things and let us think they havent yet. remember?

read above… read the articles in the news.
almost none of them bring up russias interests.

like not losing while the US wins..
better to have us both lose, no?

like having iran hemmed in as the only source
better to have more than one route.
like the weapons and cocaine building routes into africa… which way way way back then i said was going to happen as they were preparing a new trade line… weapons and coca from venezuela, to replace the weapons that cant make it through the land bridges.

should i link up the article on the new cocain trade in africa, the new weapons being made by chavez and russia, and so on?

anyone remember my comments in
Obama’s second Polish joke: the Obama Doctrine
neoneocon.com/2009/09/17/obamas-second-polish-joke-the-obama-doctrine/#comment-125938

Obama and the left doesn’t see them as that. They have the revolutionaries fantasy of a grateful other. What Obama is trying to do is ingratiate himself to his Soviet others, because he and they are now on the same side. His first time with them, they weren’t nice and such, so he thinks they need some sort of overture, some gift, and then they will realize that they are on the same team.

and that gift? what could the moves be?

Obama won’t move decisively. In fact he aint paying attention to outside he is too busy working on his image internally.

this is easier than saying it over and over again for a couple of years…

I wonder if Obama is paying attention to your wise words.

Otherwise, I get the feeling that he wants it both ways – to be seen as a peace-bringer by the left, and righteous hawk by the right. Meanwhile, he spends our troops lifeblood for his political aspiration.

By dribs and drabs, eventually he’ll declare victory and bring them home. But no victory over a resolute and implacable enemy who, unlike the Vietnamese, do wish us death and destruction.

Yes, I hope McChrystal fails The Won, and snatches victory from the jaws of “peace”.

To support your commeent, I offer this. About a week ago, there was a headline on German TV text news that German troops had been fired upon in Kundus. Now the text news blurbs are probably written by interns at the stations, but still, how can anyone living in a country with troops in Afghanistan find it newsworthy that someone shot at them. Such is the denial in the populations of our allies.

Do you really believe he cares about the corruption and incompetence of the Afghan government? He’s from Chicago, and these things never seemed to bother him there. No, he hates that national security is getting in the way of his utopian dreams. I use dreams rather than plans because as we’ve seen with health care, the boring day to day work doesn’t interest him.

Barack Obama has a dream: He stands above the world throwing out ideas for its perfection. The hard work of making small positive changes is left to others, who run the danger of being thrown under the bus if they dull his shining image. He stood before a group of young people who will risk their lives to protect America, and he asked them to think about the hard life he has. As a candidate, he did everything he could to undermine the sitting president. As we now see, all of his criticisms were totally superficial. He spent about $800,000 to get where he is now, and he expects our pity. BS!

There was no inspiring message to the Afghans in his speech, no words they could hold on in the tough times ahead. He sounded more like a collection man in a Chicago protection scheme.

OMT: Our soldiers have 12 years of schooling before they get to training camp. They can actually read training manuals. They receive further training throughout their careers. They are supported by engineers working constantly on drones and IED detection devices. Do you really think the Afghan army can get to this level in 12 weeks or 18 months?

Obama did Draw a Line in the Sand:

He will not endanger his domestic spending by fighting the war longer than 30 billion dollars.

That is his Line in the Sand.

That is why he chose the “medium-high-risk-of-failure” number of troops. That is why he chose 18 months. That is why he had the Orszag-weasel in the war council. That is why it took so long to nail this option down: he had to factor in all his other spending and start flogging “budget reduction”.

Furthermore, we know know that any future budget predictions do not include spending more than 30 billion in Afghanistan.