A refusal to identify the enemy is a recipe for failure, and this predated Obama.
by Daniel Greenfield
Over a decade after thousands of New Yorkers were murdered by Muslim terrorists, the city’s mayor is declaring victory in the War on Salt. Next up he plans to wage a spring offensive on Styrofoam cups. After that, who knows?
We live in surreal times. In the Middle Ages, cats and rats were put on trial. In this modern age, we are fighting wars on food ingredients, the bags we carry them in and the containers out of which we eat and drink them.
There’s no telling what surreal enemy our wise and brilliant leaders will declare war on next. Shoes? Pepper? Umbrellas? Mathematics? The color blue?
There’s just no way to know anymore.
The United States has lost the War in Afghanistan, a minor matter that no news outlet can find the time to report on because they’re too busy covering a breaking story about a Republican senator taking a sip of a water. Maybe a War on Water can be next. Was there a Styrofoam cup involved? It’s time for one of those hard-hitting investigations that reminds us what a loss it will be when the last newspaper is strangled with the entrails of the last news network.
But who can find the time to fight a war against Islamic terrorists, when there are more pressing wars to be fought? Like a war on being fat.
Michelle Obama declared that obesity was a national security threat. [........]
The military has been unable to identify the Fort Hood Massacre as a terrorist attack and fires any instructor who talks about Islam as anything other than a wonderful Religion of Peace practiced by our closest allies in Saudi Arabia and on board a plane headed for the Pentagon, but the political generals are always ready to jump on any truly serious national security threat. [........]
Faced with a seemingly unwinnable conflict against the Soviet Union, American leaders began to retreat into smaller social wars that were actually far more unwinnable. Those wars have also gone the way of the dodo. The War on Poverty is one with the ages and the War on Drugs is usually only mentioned in a pejorative context.
But the same government that couldn’t get a small percentage of the population to stop doing cocaine and heroin imagines that it will somehow be able to compel 11-year-old boys to stop eating candy and drawing guns. A heroin addict is nothing compared to a normal growing boy seeking a sweet sugar rush before playing a game of cops and robbers. [.........]
The government that couldn’t stop drug use or defeat Islamic terrorism has set its sights on something easier. Taking candy from a baby.
During his State of the Union Address, Obama announced that the mission in Afghanistan had been completed because Al Qaeda was defeated. Then he explained that while the war was over, American soldiers would have to go on staying in Afghanistan to continue fighting the already defeated Al Qaeda in a war that was no longer a war, but an extended vacation with shooting.
Since Al Qaeda did not have a significant presence in Afghanistan at any time during his maladministration, defeating it was fairly easy, and true to form it only cost thousands of lives. But somehow it still isn’t defeated. Still if fighting things that don’t exist gets applause, put your hands together for the War on Global Warming, which has recently been scaled down to Climate Change, which means that any time the weather changes, it’s probably due to people using the wrong kinds of light bulbs, driving the wrong kinds of cars and not paying enough attention to Al Gore.
[........]
During the election, Obama promised to begin “nation building” at home. Since that usually involves destroying a country’s military, wrecking its industrial base and then feeding them off the back of trucks while communicating with them only through interpreters, it looks like he’s making good on his promise. Chicago already looks more like Kabul or Baghdad than America.
Nation building at home means bringing the war home. Nation building is something that we usually inflict on our worst enemies in the hopes of teaching them a better way to live. It means wrecking the United States and then rebuilding it in the way that our conquerors see fit. All those little wars aren’t really being fought against salt, sugar, plastic bags and a thousand other tiny inanimate enemies. They are being fought against you.
Guns don’t kill people. And salt and sugar don’t eat themselves. Plastic bags don’t fill themselves with groceries and your old-fashioned gas guzzler won’t drive itself home from the store with plastic bags full of salt and sugar in the trunk.
The left has blown the war against Islamic terrorism. For the most part it has chosen not to fight it. Its real enemy isn’t some bearded guy sitting in a cave with a Kalashnikov being propped up by his fourth wife’s Hijab; it’s Mr. and Mrs. America in all their racist, overeating and polluting criminality. [......]
What we can expect is a war on everything but the war we’re in. To the sort of people who declare war on salt and make up fake global crises to force everyone to pay more to fly, Islamic terrorism is just what happens when the sainted 3rd World gets tired of our overeating and overdriving, and begins fighting back. The understanding that the terrorists are not just out to protest the destruction of the rainforest or fracking, but intend to establish a totalitarian theocracy based on over a thousand years of bloody history never even enters the minds of the sort of people who declare wars on salt and Styrofoam cups.
In New York City, an awkward skeletal tower stands near where the World Trade Center towers once touched the sky. And on some lamp posts you can still see the faded imprint of missing person flyers. But there is good news. Mayor Bloomberg reports that the war on salt has been won.
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Tags: Daniel Greenfield, Sultan Knish
Speranza: http://www.theblogmocracy.com/2013/02/15/nanny-bloomberg-seeks-to-ban-styrofoam/#comment-1168859
Sorry to go off topic so soon in this thread, Speranza, but I saw this and just knew you and Rodan would get a kick out of it:
Charles Johnson hits the big time!
Taxpayers fund study to discredit Tea Party as creation of “Big Tobacco”!
This is insanity. If Al Qaeda is defeated in Afghanistan, why stay?
How about pursuing them where they are & bomb them to Allah?
When the Fox guards the Henhouse.
@ The Osprey:
Charles feels vindicated now. Big Tobacco is behind it all.
@ RIX:
I’d rather have us bring our troops home and have them bomb progressives, instead.
Good…maybe now they can do some nation-building in Chicago.
@ RIX:
I’m with you. Let Al-Qaeda and Iran duke it.
A worthy endeavor.
Rodan wrote:
Absolutely, our troops have done their job.
The pols, not so much.
@ lobo91:
Jesse Jr. tried to cut a deal for his wife Sandy & the Feds
wouldn’t go for it. So Junior took the deal for himself.
Sandy is quoted as saying, ” I feel like I’ve been thrown under the bus.”
two party evil money cult in washington d.c.
just say no
Rodan wrote:
Caliphate vs Empire… I like it
lobo91 wrote:
Maybe now they can also film a third Snake Plissken movie: “Escape From Chicago”!
brookly red wrote:
Arguing once again over how to properly sing and/or chant The Muslim National Anthem™….
Macker wrote:
in Arabic or Farsi?
The Weather Underground used to yammer about “bringing the war back home.”
The Firesign Theater had the following from the end of their “Don’t Crush That Dwarf” album:
We’re bringing the war back home
Where it ought to have been before
We’ll kill all the bees and spiders and flies
And we won’t play in iceboxes lying on their sides
We’ll wash our hands after wee-wee
And if we’re a girl, before
And we’ll march, march, march et cetera
‘Til we never need march no more…
Well, that last is pretty much where we are now. The Left is “bringing the war back home”—and mandating that we all wash our hands after wee-wee. Meanwhile, the President yammers about how people are “wee-wee’d up” over his piss-poor performance.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
can we count this as a win on the homefront? http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/15/education-reform-parent-trigger-wins-in-los-angeles/
brookly red wrote:
You Be The Judge!
الجميع يمارس الجنس مع بعقب!
بعقب! بعقب! بعقب اللعنة!
vs.
همه لب به لب فاک!
ته قنداق تفنگ! ته قنداق تفنگ! آرشیو موضوعی لب!
Macker wrote:
Farsi sounds better…
now this is weird… http://en.apa.az/news/187943
brookly red wrote:
So’s this….
Sent to me by a Fraternity Brother who was in the Peace Corps in Kazakhstan!
Macker wrote:
/wow… Captain Kangaroo really was a commie
@ brookly red:
ROFLMAIAO!
brookly red wrote:
Thank God America isn’t the only nation on earth whose elected officials are bat shit crazy…
@ doriangrey:
I’m not real wild about the bat shit crazy leadership of N. Korea or Iran at the moment.
Mike C. wrote:
well maybe if Iran and the NKs keep holding hands in public AQ will start attacking NKs interests… now that would be interesting.
Mike C. wrote:
the leadership of N Korea and Iran are not Bat Shit Crazy, they are mendaciously malfeasant.
doriangrey wrote:
and short too…
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-problem-i-m-not-emperor-united-states_701295.html
In his own words… “This is something I’ve struggled with throughout my presidency,” said Obama. “The problem is that I’m the president of the United States, I’m not the emperor of the United States…”
I knew it, I just knew it would be Rangel! http://thehill.com/video/house/283387-rangel-to-introduce-legislation-to-reinstating-the-draft-
brookly red wrote:
Rangel has tried this before- he’s purposefully trying to cripple the military and turn public sentiment against it. It’s virtual sedition and I’m being far too lenient in qualifying it as “virtual”.
MacDuff wrote:
BO just fired 20k Marines…how does a draft make sense?…our volunteer people are the best in the world…if we institute a draft I suggest we invade somebody
@ heysoos:
Chicago, maybe?
MacDuff wrote:
well yesterday we talked about tobacco = tea party & women and the draft… it’s starting to seem like posting here is reading tomorrow’s news paper…
can we maybe do a stock thread?
you’re correct about that. Charlie knows that a draft would
get the college yoots & others all radical & anti military.
lobo91 wrote:
What the fuck is wrong with you man! we don’t want to capture them we want to expel them!
lobo91 wrote:
yes, excellent choice
brookly red wrote:
no third option?
heysoos wrote:
Good lord, who in their right mind would want to invade Chicago? Hell, I’m surprised some of you yahoo’s have petitioned Mordor on the Potomac to have Chicago moved to Kalifornia.
doriangrey wrote:
heysoos wrote:
California…
I wish that some reporter would ask BHO if he will encourage
his daughters to join the military when they are old enough.
Also, “will you encourage them to volunteer for combat?”
There would be a soft shoe & no straight answer.
doriangrey wrote:
well actually I think there was an error drawing the map… we should do the right thing and give it back to Canada Muhahahaha
brookly red wrote:
BWAHAHAHAHAH… Now that right there just might be all the grounds Canada needs to declare war on the US…
RIX wrote:
I think Jason Matteria would do it…
doriangrey wrote:
we could let Dearborn fall in the first day then sue for peace.
RIX wrote:
Might work… “Daddy, I want an Aircraft Carrier”
aside from it’s govt, which I could care less about, and it’s severe gang problem, Chicago is world class…the most awesome downtown of any city anywhere, especially at night all lit up…knicknamed the City That Works during the Daly Sr years, as corrupt as possible yet stuff got done…it’s all caught with them now..still one hell of a town
brookly red wrote:
Hmmm, could the Canadians actually be dumb enough to fall for that?
When I get my Big Tobacco and Koch Bros. checks for being a “Tea Partier,” (I can only assume there’s a hangup in the mail -- I’ve had mail issues before -- TRY and complain) I’m taking the whole blog to Tahiti for two weeks of mai-tais and merriment!
I would love to see that. Of course the MSM would view that as
rude, racist even.
RIX wrote:
you want I should e-mail him?
Bumr50 wrote:
uhhh bad news… Kerry took his Soros check and bought it. But if we can scrape together 15 hundred bucks we could rent Haiti
brookly red wrote:
You talk like Russian spy.
//;-)
doriangrey wrote:
Just move the boarder south of Detroit in the middle of the night and see if anyone notices the shift…
Right on! Chicago is a great city with a world class water front,
Great restaurants, museums and sports venues.
Also italian Beef sandwiches, Slurp !!!!
it is a shame what the pols & the gangs are doing to it.
Absolutely.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
no one will notice till the 1st of the month when the welfare payment bankrupts Canada…
RIX wrote:
Be it bad economy or criminals at home or Muslims and Communists abroad, Democrats are either in retreat or abject surrender to every problem, challenge or enemy this country has. We’re just throwing it away with both f**king hands.
RIX wrote:
Done. It may go right in the spam box but he has responded before…
brookly red wrote:
Great!
MacDuff wrote:
with all due respect Sir you approach these issues as if they were fighting in good faith but not up to the task… that could not be farther from the truth.
They are all in.
Notice that everything that the Dems run is bankrupt & crime ridden.
RIX wrote:
being from Brooklyn he is a hero of mine…
RIX wrote:
Crime ridden yes, bankrupt? Not so much… planned parenthood, the muslim brotherhood, and acorn seem to have no casflow problems…
He has nerve.
I’m thinking of zIllinois, a third world credit rating.
Belated Valentine’s Day Greetings!
RIX wrote:
don’t fuck with brooklyn
Sounds like Texas.
Urban Infidel wrote:
if you ever do that again I will send you a picture of Mooch in boy shorts…
brookly red wrote:
Bring it!
Communism from the floor of the senate:
Senator Tom Harkin says “we don’t have a spending problem, we’re not broke, we have a misallocation of wealth”. Unbelievable!
RIX wrote:
no you don’t mess with Texas… you don’t fuck with Brooklyn.
huckfunn wrote:
Take away his money.
The rise of Bolshevik America?
In Pravda, no less. I’m under no illusion that Pravda has no agenda, but so much of what they’re publishing, such as this, is spot-on. Besides, I think they know from Bolsheviks.
Now I got it.
huckfunn wrote:
The Bolshevik Revolution, American style. Geez, I picked a fine time to give up alcohol for Lent…..
MacDuff wrote:
They seem right on point…
How far is America from the Bolshevik State? The administration is already forcing health care providers to report on the activities of other citizens. How soon will American children be reporting ‘revolutionary activities’ to their teachers? How soon will American priests essentially compose a secret informant network? How soon will neighbors begin calling in about one another in hopes of avoiding being sent ‘somewhere’ themselves? If Obama, who associated with militant communists like Bill Ayers, and the Weather Underground during his college days, pretty soon, and he shows no signs of letting the American congress have a say.
@ brookly red:
It’s not a matter of “the pot calling the kettle black”…….we’ve actually become the pot.
@ brookly red:
Why would American Priests compose a secret informant network?
MacDuff wrote:
for the first time in my life I am not proud of my country.
brookly red wrote:
New Mexico kicked Texas’ ass….twice…
we’re so bad ass we don’t need no sissy motto
RIX wrote:
true believers would not. party members in white collars are a different story.
Looks like Panetta had his “beret moment” on the way out the door:
RIX wrote:
Coercion via the tax code. Yeah, it sounds like dystopian fiction, but 2008 seems long ago all of a sudden.
lobo91 wrote:
just redefine ‘heroism’…I’m sure my brother (2 Bronze Stars V) will be impressed
@ lobo91:
That’s bullshit. Insulting, demoralizing bullshit.
lobo91 wrote:
it is a tough call, I don’t think it on the same level as a purple heart or bronze star the world is changing and tech warriors should be recognized.
@ brookly red:
ok
@ brookly red:
not for heroism…that’s just absurd
brookly red wrote:
Indeed they should, but what they do isn’t even in the same zip code as facing enemy fire and putting your life on the line and nor should be their recognition.
RIX wrote:
hey it is not the same as risking your ass for sure and I don’t suggest it should be but writing a line of code that kills the enemy is still killing the enemy
MacDuff wrote:
I agree… not on the same level, but not to be overlooked either.
MacDuff wrote:
my dad came home from the pacific following WW2 with grey hair…23 years old
@ brookly red:
Now I got ya. I completely misunderstood.
brookly red wrote:
give them a gift card…there is no valor in this case
For decades, we’ve had guys sitting in ICBM control complexes, guys operating and monitoring the DEW line, guys operating and monitoring the GIUK gap sensor stations, etc., etc. Any of them get a special medal?
brookly red wrote:
Service Commendation/Distinguished Service medals work for that if written well enough!
heysoos wrote:
My Mother mixed fertilizer with diesel oil in the basement of a bakery in occupied Denmark… 18. Not all service is recognized.
Those guys really had a rough time.
What I noticed with my uncles is that they sucked
it up & didn’t whine.
Great generation
brookly red wrote:
nor does it need to be…but driving drones is hardly dangerous, worthy of a hero medal higher than a Bronze Star…the notion is just bizarre
heysoos wrote:
yes and as I said earlier not the same level but still not to be discounted.
RIX wrote:
the last of my family’s old warriors passed away just yesterday…at one point my dad, his brother and their three cousins were all serving combat duty….2d Marines, 25th Infantry, 8th and 15th Air Corp and Navy…they probably would just shrug it off, but consider it a huge insult
brookly red wrote:
agreed, but Panetta is way off the mark here
We’re are losing all of those guys quickly now.
I am glad that there are flights to take them to DC
to see the WWII Memorial.
They knew how to be adults. My generation,
not so much
brookly red wrote:
I don’t think anyone discounts their contribution, nor should they be, but contributions made under risk of death and/or dismemberment should rate higher and considered in a wholly separate class.
My mother was a cryptologist for Naval Intelligence during WWII and received several commendations for her service. I think she’d be embarrassed to be placed in the same class as a Marine that landed at Omaha Beach.
UN chief Ban Ki-Clueless thinks Iran might be pretending to negotiate, secretly building a bomb. No shirt, Shitlock.
Panetta does have this wrong. The guys who pilot drones from a bunker
should get recognition for their service, but not above a Bronze Star
earned in combat.
MacDuff wrote:
my mom built B-25′s in Ypsilanti MI during the war…just went over there and signed up with a couple other gals..they spent three years over there sharing a little apt…my mom loved it…people just did what they had to do
combat is a realm that belongs in another reality…not the long range sniping, air strike stuff, but up in your face life or death is typically not an event easily described…people that experience the wildly intense fear and drama are forever changed in most cases…and it can go on for weeks and months
So the Russians are positive it wasn’t a meteorite; it was a US weapons test run a muck!
waldensianspirit wrote:
one guy, not ‘Russians’
It’s one nationalist pol. He says that nothing can fall out
of Space without human intervention.
He is going to get his LGF account blocked
RIX wrote:
heh…good one…Human Induced Meteor Attack
heysoos wrote:
Yeah, the women that left their kitchens to make warplanes were particularly impressive; women doing any type of work outside the home was pretty rare back them. For them to make that transition and to do it so effectively was pretty special.
waldensianspirit wrote:
Looking at the videos, my immediate though was that there were a lot of people my age thinking “oh my God, the Americans are friggin’ nuking us!”. Hell, that kinda thing happening during the Cold War could have radically changed the course of history…or stopped history in it’s tracks.
heysoos wrote:
Not so far-fetched if your an anchor babe at CNN.
And of course we all know that global warming is caused by man… settled science, etc… ////
@ MacDuff:
I worked with a Russian who would laugh and recount his days in the Soviet military going out each day to an anti-aircraft gun waiting for the Americans to arrive
huckfunn wrote:
Wow! their farkin’ nuts!
Some progressive aliens out there hurled it at us to stop us from warming the universe!
waldensianspirit wrote:
waldensianspirit wrote:
The fact that an adult anchor person of a “major” (I use that term loosely) news outlet could pose such a question and retain her job shows how irrelevant CNN has become.
we live in an AmIdol, National Enquirer world…
mostly fake
@ heysoos:
I’m like Rush. I live in Realville which makes it easy to laugh at the global warming fools.
Moe Katz wrote:
No problem.
The Osprey wrote:
Holy Moses smell the roses!
@ heysoos:
Ypsi-tucky!
RIX wrote:
Ricobene’s!
Macker wrote:
you know the place?