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Warrior-Mentor
12-05-2009, 05:22
December 04, 2009
President Obama slammed by military experts
Doc's Talk
Jim Kouri

Several former US military commanders have complained about President Barack Obama dragging his feet in deciding whether or not to give his generals the additional troops they say they need to succeed in Afghanistan. Now after Obama's speech Tuesday night, these military experts continue to doubt the president's understanding of what it will take to win against Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

Since the election of President Barack Obama, former Lieutenant General McInerney (US Air Force) has frequently blasted the Obama administration for what he regards as its weakness on defense. McInereney, a Fox News Military Analyst, remains unimpressed after Obama's highly-touted televised address to the American people.

In an op-ed for the conservative media group Stand Up America, McInerney and co-author Major General Paul Vallely (US Army) argued that Obama and his advisers fail to acknowledge that “we are in a Global War Against Radical Islam.”

Generals Vallely and McInerney say that “radical Islam” is an “ideology that is as evil as Nazism, Fascism and Communism.”

McInerney and Vallely also claim that President Obama is all but ignoring the recommendations of General Stanley McChrystal, the head of NATO forces in Afghanistan, to increase troops levels in Afghanistan, which they argued could lead to defeat.

Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters (US Army) talking with Judge Andrew Napolitano on Fox News Channel dismissed the president as inept and naive. Col. Peters complained that what Obama craves most is adulation and applause. He descriptively called Obama "a vampire who doesn't live on blood -- he lives on applause." Peters also stated that Obama's strategy is just "plain nuts."

"That's the only possible characterization for [Tuesday] night's presidential declaration of surrender in advance of a renewed campaign in Afghanistan.

President Obama will send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan -- but he'll 'begin the transfer of our forces out of Afghanistan in July of 2011.'

Then why send them?

If you're going to tell the Taliban to be patient because we're leaving, what's the point in upping the blood ante? For what will come down to a single year by the time the troops hit the ground? Does Obama really expect to achieve in one year what we haven't been able to do in more than eight?" said Peters.

SOURCE:
http://docstalk.blogspot.com/2009/12/president-obama-slammed-by-military.html?spref=tw

Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he's a staff writer for the New Media Alliance (thenma.org). In addition, he's the former editor for the House Conservatives Fund's weblog. Kouri also serves as political advisor for Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Michael Moriarty.

He's former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He's a news writer for TheConservativeVoice.Com and PHXnews.com. He's also a columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he's syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. He's appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc.

glebo
12-05-2009, 08:17
As stated before in previous threads/posts, ya gotta love it when these big brass get OUT and then start beating their chests....OTOH, what do you expect from this administration??

Obama has NEVER been a soldier/worrier, and he knows nothing about it. He relies on his dweeb cronies to make decisions for him. What?? Listen to the Commanders on the ground for what they need.....NONSENSE I tell'ya, what do they know.


IMHO, if anyone is gong to be POTUS, they need to have SERVED first.

Not always the case, but it has proven that those who have, have been better leaders.


Christ, this guys still campaining.

ryno
12-05-2009, 08:48
I second that, glebo.

He likes the benefits of sitting in the big chair; he just doesn’t like the responsibility that comes with it. I’m sure the Taliban doesn’t have the patience to hold out for eighteen more months. It’s not as if they’ve resisted us for the last eight years or anything. :rolleyes:

Richard
12-05-2009, 09:19
IMHO, if anyone is gong to be POTUS, they need to have SERVED first. Not always the case, but it has proven that those who have, have been better leaders.

Presidents who served in wars


George Washington - Commander in Chief of Continental Army during the American Revolution.
James Monroe - served in American Revolution
Andrew Jackson - American Revolution, War of 1812, First Seminole War
William Henry Harrison - Indian wars in the NW territory, War of 1812
John Tyler - War of 1812
Zachary Taylor - War of 1812, Black Hawk, Second Seminole, and Mexican wars
Franklin Pierce - Mexican War
James Buchanan - War of 1812
Abraham Lincoln - Black Hawk War
Andrew Johnson - Civil War
Ulysses Grant - Mexican War, Civil War
Rutherford Hayes - Civil War
James Garfield - Civil War
Chester Arthur - Civil War
Benjamin Harrison - Civil War
William McKinley - Civil War
Theodore Roosevelt - Spanish-American War
Harry Truman - WWI
Dwight Eisenhower - WWII General
John Kennedy - WWII
Lyndon Johnson - WWII
Richard Nixon - WWII
Gerald Ford - WWII
George Bush - WWII


Presidents who were in the military but who saw no action


James Madison
James Polk
Millard Fillmore
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan - kept out of combat due to bad eyesight
George W. Bush


Presidents with no military experience


John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
John Quincy Adams
Martin Van Buren
Grover Cleveland
William Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Warren Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Franklin Roosevelt
Bill Clinton

http://www.heptune.com/preslist.html#Military

Richard

The Reaper
12-05-2009, 15:14
They left Obama off the no experience list, but there are a lot of those he would probably be on.

TR