Comments on: A French military victory in Mali — and a dismal American record http://www.bookwormroom.com/2013/01/27/a-french-military-victory-in-mali-and-a-dismal-american-record/ Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts. Sat, 18 May 2013 06:48:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: 11B40 http://www.bookwormroom.com/2013/01/27/a-french-military-victory-in-mali-and-a-dismal-american-record/comment-page-1/#comment-151469 11B40 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:05:31 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=26358#comment-151469 Greetings:
 
Most evenings, I see a bit of the France 24 news broadcast.  It’s interesting to see the usual bunch of Euro-lefties getting in touch with their forsaken manhoods.  
My perspective is not so optimistic.  This is the cockroach phase.  The bigger, badder guys show up and the terrorists  scatter to their something approximating sanctuaries.  If the French don’t pursue them the way the Texas Ranger pursued the Comanches, that is, to the death, the bad guys will be back.
A while back, I read a biography, entitled “Bad Hand” about Ranald Slidell MacKenzie who dealt with the Amerindan wars in our Southwest in the 1870s and that is how these terrorists need to be handled.  That General understood how people of “no fixed abode” need to be handled. 
 
 

]]> By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2013/01/27/a-french-military-victory-in-mali-and-a-dismal-american-record/comment-page-1/#comment-151451 Ymarsakar Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:46:39 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=26358#comment-151451 Freddie, that’s no different than US Democrat backed health care systems starving and dehydrating people in hospital beds to death. Iran may actually be more merciful in this sense.

]]> By: Danny Lemieux http://www.bookwormroom.com/2013/01/27/a-french-military-victory-in-mali-and-a-dismal-american-record/comment-page-1/#comment-151445 Danny Lemieux Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:12:39 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=26358#comment-151445 I wouldn’t be so hard on the French, weathtd. The (nominally American) Democrats have had a unique ability to snack defeat from the jaws of victory, of late: Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt…

]]> By: NancyB http://www.bookwormroom.com/2013/01/27/a-french-military-victory-in-mali-and-a-dismal-american-record/comment-page-1/#comment-151441 NancyB Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:37:58 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=26358#comment-151441 The French seem to be finding their lost courage – see also recent demonstrations against the rise of radical Islam in their country.  

]]> By: weathtd http://www.bookwormroom.com/2013/01/27/a-french-military-victory-in-mali-and-a-dismal-american-record/comment-page-1/#comment-151437 weathtd Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:35:40 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=26358#comment-151437 Oh!  That’s right—with help from the American military–again!

]]> By: weathtd http://www.bookwormroom.com/2013/01/27/a-french-military-victory-in-mali-and-a-dismal-american-record/comment-page-1/#comment-151435 weathtd Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:34:15 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=26358#comment-151435 A French military victory?  WOW!  That’s a first.

]]> By: Freddie Sykes http://www.bookwormroom.com/2013/01/27/a-french-military-victory-in-mali-and-a-dismal-american-record/comment-page-1/#comment-151420 Freddie Sykes Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:21:46 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=26358#comment-151420 RE: Another hanging in Iran..

In the West, hangings are death by a broken neck which severs communication between the brain and the body.

In Iran, hanging is placing a rope around one’s throat and using a crane to slowly lift that person into the air where they slowly die, in great agony, of oxygen deprivation.
 
 
 

]]> By: Spartacus http://www.bookwormroom.com/2013/01/27/a-french-military-victory-in-mali-and-a-dismal-american-record/comment-page-1/#comment-151408 Spartacus Mon, 28 Jan 2013 05:23:26 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=26358#comment-151408 JohnC — I think b. nailed it in this comment on a previous thread:  We are the kulaks.  It’s not a coincidence, and it’s not your imagination.  Being the dispassionate president of all the people is a thought so remote to him that he barely even pays it lip service.

]]> By: JohnC http://www.bookwormroom.com/2013/01/27/a-french-military-victory-in-mali-and-a-dismal-american-record/comment-page-1/#comment-151406 JohnC Mon, 28 Jan 2013 04:39:04 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=26358#comment-151406 Upon reading the statement “he seems to be on the wrong side every time” a thought immediately came to mind: Well, that’s because he’s always against whatever America’s natural response would be.
 
Which got me to wondering…
 
Is there anything in America’s past of which he truly approves?
Is there any American decision pre-Obama of which he is genuinely proud?
I had to admit I can’t think of anything. Not a single thing.
 
Which lead me off on another tangent-
I don’t think my president likes me.
No, of course not me specifically.
I don’t think my president likes people like me.
By any measure- race, education, politics, religion, culture, income…
He doesn’t have to say anything.
It’s in the attitudes of the people with whom he surrounds himself.
It’s in the policies his political appointees implement.
Whatever I’m for, he’s against. Whatever I value, he detests.

I’ve never felt this way before about any president.
People say his speeches are so grand, so inspiring. His voice doesn’t seem to work on me. I must not be able to hear the same frequencies as those who love him. I just hear a man reading words written in someone else’s hand.
 
Interesting times, these.

]]> By: JKB http://www.bookwormroom.com/2013/01/27/a-french-military-victory-in-mali-and-a-dismal-american-record/comment-page-1/#comment-151404 JKB Mon, 28 Jan 2013 03:54:22 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=26358#comment-151404 When we were talking of tyranny, I argued that it starts with the extra-governmental forces that kill or come in the night illegally but have little to fear from the “government”.  Well, the Muslim Brotherhood snipers are killing people in Egypt.  thegatewaypundit…shock-video-muslim-brotherhood-snipers-shoot-people-from-rooftops/  The people of Egypt have a bit of time but the tyranny is in progress.  They need firearms to fight back.

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