POTUS Discovers “War on a Far-Reaching Network of Violence and Hatred” (WFNVH)
By John Batchelor on January 2, 2010 at 9:37 PM in Current Affairs
Editor’s Note: John’s radio show is on now, and he’s talking about the president’s speech today. Go to iTunes, Radio, News/Talk Radio, WABC-AM.
POTUS weekly radio address is the first draft of the New-New Obama administration “War on a Far-reaching Network of Violence and Hatred,” soon to be summarized (fleetingly) as the “WFNVH.”
POTUS is eager to remind us that there is already money going to Yemen, though not as much as there is money going to Pakistan, to combat WNVH.
This is protection money for the kleptocrats and can be treated as business as usual. What may be new here is that the Obama administration is getting its lobbying wingtips off and its slogging GI combat boots on.
POTUS represents one-third of the government, and a shaky one-third at that, since it comes and goes willy-nilly every two or four years.
Therefore what he is doing or not doing is not of much interest. What the professionals charged with national security are doing is the point, and if he was telling us what they are doing in their power, it would be either disinformation or guesswork.
Yes, he knows more than he can say. No, he cannot tell us what he knows. But still, telling us that he is doing something critical or useful or difficult about the usual suspects, such as Al Qaeda Arbian Peninsula, International Front for Combatting the Crusaders and the Jews, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen,Sana’a, Riyadh, Bin Laden, terror, Network of Violence and Hatred, North Waziristan, NCTC, DHS, DoD, CIA, USA, Saudia Arabia, Land of the Two Mosques, Land Between The Rivers, Taliban, Haqqani Network, is not clairifying or illuminating.
In sum, POTUS is spinning us as much as he is spinning himself. POTUS was on vacation on an island in the Pacific, and he was asleep at noontime Eastern Time, when Abdulmutallab tried to rain people on Detroit.
For three days afterward, POTUS kept playing golf and partying with his pals and flacks and servants. As a father and husband and citizen, you get a vacation if you can afford it and get away from the office.
As POTUS, you do not rest, you do not drift, you do not hesitate, you are always on duty.
What explains the seventy-two hour delay until the first statement about the “isolated” Abdulmutallab? What explains the additional twenty-four hours until the statement about “failure” and “unacceptable?”
What explains the additional ninety-six hours until the Saturday remarks that Al Qaeda Arabian Peninsula ran the op with Abdulmutallab?
(Still no mention that Hasan was in contact with the same al-Awalki who prepped and mesmerized the sorry character Abdulmutallab.) (Still no mention that the unnamed Somali who attacked Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard and his grand-daughter in Copenhagen is linked to Al Qaeda.)
The answer to all these questions is the fact that there are these questions.
It is not about what you are doing, Mr. Obama; it is about what POTUS needs to have already set in motion to light up his national security teams and find and destroy the enemy.
Not what you do, POTUS, what NSC Jim Jones and Homeland Liason John Brennan and NCTC Dennis Blair and DCI Leon Panetta and JSOC and CENTCOM David Petraeus and DOD Robert Gates do.
Mentioning Iraq is a warning sign that the White House messaging unit needs new brainpower.
POTUS went to Cairo to apologize. POTUS ignored Baghdad. POTUS took seven months to figure out the surge in Afghanistan. POTUS reached out to the EU and UN and China.
Nothing worked to change the fight with AQ. Now he must try to maintain a grimace while he pivots and mutates into George Bush/Dick Cheney goes to war.
Already the comments in London are anticipating how quickly Obama/Biden will invade Yemen and Somalia.
“As we go forward, let us remember this — our adversaries are those who would attack our country, not our fellow Americans, not each other,” Mr. Obama said. ”Instead of succumbing to partisanship and division, let’s summon the unity that this moment demands. Let’s work together, with a seriousness of purpose, to do what must be done to keep our country safe.”
The number is blunt and no doubt still climbing, and this is before the new cycle begins in the new year on Sunday January 3 (Eastern Time) and pounds the connections between Al Qaeda, Abdulmutallab, Hasan, Khost Province FOB (CIA) Chapman, and now the Somali who attacked cartoonist Kurt Westergaard in his home in Amsterdam and who is linked to Al Qaeda:
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