Most momentous (and calamitous words) from the speech:
Sgt. Rock, a commentator in this thread, writes: If I'm sitting in a cave in Pakistan watching CNN, I learned a couple of things: 1) If I can make it expensive enough for you to fight me, you'll cut and run, and b) In 18 months you'll pick up and leave anyway. Either way, I win. And then I can go back to murdering your infidel countrymen on your own soil, after which I'll be tried in YOUR courts and defended by an ACLU lawyer YOU paid for. Praise be to Allah, I'm going to get fitted for a new explosive vest.
After 18 months, our troops will begin to come home [to a chorus of Pashtun-accented "God is great!"].
I don't think the Cadets were impressed. I sure wasn't. Can he deliver a speech without the tennis back and forth his Teleprompters give?
Ralph Peters ("And where are the four-star resignations over a policy designed to squander American lives just to give an administration political cover?"), Michael Rubin ("There should be nothing wrong with an open-ended commitment to victory."), and Neal Boortz ("There is something basically immoral about sending American men and
women into harm's way in a war where victory is not the goal.").
My favorite is from NR's Corner:
My favorite is from NR's Corner:
And the gleam of adventurism in Mr. Putin's eyes shines brighter today as well.George Will writes in his column "This Will Not End Well":
Obama's halfhearted embrace of a half-baked nonstrategy -- briefly feinting toward the Taliban (or al-Qaeda, or a "syndicate of terror") while lunging for the exit ramp -- makes a protracted loss probable.
Sgt. Rock, a commentator in this thread, writes: If I'm sitting in a cave in Pakistan watching CNN, I learned a couple of things: 1) If I can make it expensive enough for you to fight me, you'll cut and run, and b) In 18 months you'll pick up and leave anyway. Either way, I win. And then I can go back to murdering your infidel countrymen on your own soil, after which I'll be tried in YOUR courts and defended by an ACLU lawyer YOU paid for. Praise be to Allah, I'm going to get fitted for a new explosive vest.
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