Obama’s Second Front War

In an earlier post I defined Obama’s war, the upcoming one in Afghanistan that could possibly be longer and more costly in terms of life and money than Johnson’s war.  And as if that isn’t enough we have one brewing that may eclipse Johnson’s War (Vietnam), Bush’s war (Iraq) and maybe even Truman’s war, Korea or FDR’s war.  Those Republicans like Bush, Truman, Johnson, and FDR are great in getting us into wars.  As an aside, the Bush war death toll is less than one fifth of the lowest of the others. Maybe Republicans know how to fight a war with less casualties.

But let’s get back to the second front.  BO is planning to get into Afghanistan and clean up that mess.  Hmmm.  I remember that one other world leader tried that some years back and lost his proverbial shirt and his Berlin Wall.  The army of the USSR lost to the Afghani and if BO takes the LBJ playbook of letting the MBA’s run the war the body bags will be coming home at 120 a week or more like they did when LBJ was leading the effort with McNamara and his wiz kids.  But while he is committing those troops there Mehico is getting into trouble.  The left wing lead a colophony of garbage about Iraq going into civil war before the 2004 election and that didn’t happen.  Hmmm.  It still hasn’t.  Democrats are good at fictional accounts.  They are not very effective prophets.  They need disasters to win elections even if they are conjured up and exist only in their minds.  One thing Chuck Schumer was good at was predicting bank failures but then his press releases caused the runs on the banks that helped those come to pass.  This kind of activity is called irresponsible anywhere but the donkey party.  It is also called how to steal an election.  God help Schumer if someone who lost big bucks in that figures out why it happened. 

Mehico is in trouble.  Big trouble!  Within four years it is highly possible that we will need to arm the border, not to protect us from wet backs but from armed people killing our citizens.  If that happens there will be no forces to pacify Afghanistan.  The Mehican government is unable to keep the peace.  How long will it be till we have to arm the borders?  How long till we have to send troops into Mehico there to prevent Pancho Villa type excursions into Texas?  

Only time will tell.  But the big questions are will BO take effective action and does he, a man who is essentially a military hater be able to figure out how to lead.

Joshua Chandler, a man from the days of the War of the Rebellion, who held Little Round Top at Gettysburg on July 2, 1663, and I might add, with little loss of life on the Union side and great slaughter of his enemy, refused a position to lead a regiment about a year before he took the Twentieth Maine.  He took the second position on the Second Maine and spent over a year learning how to lead men in battle by watching.  He refused to learn to lead men in battle and with their lives.  On that crucial day he did not sell their lives cheaply even though he was told to hold the hill even if it meant the loss of his whole regiment.  And the commanders were pretty sure it might take that.

It is a shame BO and Joe Biden didn’t recognize their deficiencies and resign.  They still can but they have the ego to stay when reason says they should let someone who knows what they are doing take the position.

If I were betting I would buy stock in a company that makes body bags.