ENGLISH Military officers shun Obama

A friend recently visited Disneyworld in central Florida and brought back this report:

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I took the Magic cruise at Disneyworld and found myself at a dinner table for eight on the cruise ship. I began conversing with a 28-year veteran US Army colonel.

He was livid at Obama and told me that the officer corps loathes their supposed “commander-in-chief.”  When Obama flies into a military base, both officers and NCOs (sergeant and above in the enlisted ranks)  seek to get leave to be off-base that day or week so they do not have to greet Obama or shake his hand. He said that officers had to be ordered to show up, medals, ribbons and all, to give Obama the “photo op” with the chestfuls of battle decorations on smiling officers.

He also told me that at Disneyworld  he saw dozens of Islamic women in the 100-degree heat clothed head-to-toe in burqas, pushing baby carriages full of boys while, as he said, “over and over I saw  the little girls the same age having to walk” in the simmering heat.

He asked me why liberals would favor immigration of people from such a woman-hating culture as Islam.

I said: to destroy the whites.

He got it.

Obongotron,  you just try your martial law…….. You think we angry rightwing whites in the police and military will just obey, and the millions of white former military will just surrender? Just kiss away our rights and freedoms forever and let the darkness of negritude descend on OUR country because you are squatting in a federal housing project in Washington and CALLING  yourself a president?

Your hair is getting gray, you are getting skinnier from overwhelming worry, and your seeming “cool” is revealed to be merely COLD. You have lost White America, even the white liberals.

Obama at Muskoka, Ontario for the G-8 economic summit trying another Messiah moment with Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper

These officers and sergeants get online just as anyone else does; they get emails also from their relatives and friends. They know the score. And your score is ZERO.

My volunteer Jason spoke with a member of his state’s National Guard before he came here to Pennsylvania. He asked him if he would obey orders to carry out martial law. He said “Absolutely not.” And the fellow volunteered to ask his fellow soldiers at the next weekend drill if THEY would do so. He came back later and told Jason: “They said the same thing. They would not obey any orders to implement martial law.”

============BUCHANAN ON FIRING OF MCCHRYSTAL

Obama vs. the military
By Pat Buchanan
Saturday, June 26, 2010

WASHINGTON

In confiding to Rolling Stone their unflattering opinions of the military acumen of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, National Security Adviser Gen. James Jones, Dick Holbrooke and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, Gen. Stanley McChrystal and his staff were guilty of colossal stupidity.

And President Obama had cause to cashier them. Yet his decision to fire McChrystal may prove both unwise and costly.

For McChrystal, unlike Gen. MacArthur, never challenged the war policy — he is carrying it out — and Barack Obama is no Harry Truman.

Moreover, the war strategy Obama is pursuing is the McChrystal Plan, devised by the general and being implemented by the general in Marja and Kandahar, perhaps the decisive campaign of the war.

Should that plan now fail, full responsibility falls on Obama.

If the McChrystal strategy fails, critics will charge Obama with causing the defeat by firing the best fighting general in the Army out of pique over some officers-club remarks that bruised the egos of West Wing warriors.

Although those remarks never should have appeared in print, they may well reflect the sentiments of not a few soldiers and Marine officers on third and fourth tours of duty in the Afghan theater.

And if success in Afghanistan is the highest goal, how does it help to fire the best fighting general?

This city may draw the parallel, but the Obama-McChrystal clash does not remotely rise to the historic level of the collision between MacArthur and Truman.

Truman had dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ordered the airlift that broke the Berlin blockade, and produced the Marshall Plan and NATO. Obama has nothing like Truman’s credibility as a war leader.

And MacArthur was the most famous U.S. soldier since Gen. Grant. Driven out of the Philippines in 1942, he had declared, “I shall return,” and led the liberation of the islands in 1944. He conducted the famous island-hopping campaign up the archipelagos of the South Pacific and took Japan’s surrender on the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

As military proconsul, he presided over the reconstruction of Japan, wrote her constitution and converted her into an ally.

When North Korea invaded the South and drove the U.S. Army into the Pusan perimeter, MacArthur landed Marines far behind enemy lines in a flanking maneuver that destroyed the North Korean army and will be studied at military academies for centuries to come.

In late 1950, MacArthur was stunned by the intervention in Korea of the armies of Mao Zedong.

MacArthur’s clash with Truman was not over something so trivial as a gossipy article in a magazine. MacArthur’s hands had been tied by Truman.

He was not allowed to bomb the bridges over which Chinese troops were pouring into Korea. He was not allowed to bomb Chinese troop concentrations and munitions dumps in Manchuria. He was not allowed to use Chiang Kai-shek’s armies on Taiwan. He was not allowed pursuit of enemy aircraft into Chinese or Russian airspace.

MacArthur’s letter to Rep. Joe Martin was indeed a challenge to Truman’s policy of avoiding any risk of a clash with Russia, even if it meant U.S. soldiers would pay the price of Truman’s timidity.

Obama and his party may be celebrating his cashiering of Gen. McChrystal as a macho moment, but by firing the fighting general for his foolish remarks, Obama has deepened the gulf between his party and the U.S. military.

Pat Buchanan is the author of the book “Churchill, Hitler and ‘The Unnecessary War.'”

==============My comment

In between jobs, I have worked as a substitute teacher.  Once you lose control of a classroom, it takes harsher and harsher methods to restore order.  Obama is a “sub” who cannot command his pupils’ respect. Only his rank as president confers a certain “authority” on him, but even that technical position of authority itself is invalidated in the eyes of tens of millions because he refuses to prove his legal eligibility to be president.

He is NOT the president. He is a fraud and an incompetent loser with an ever more absurd level of narcissistic vanity. In more and more photos he looks positively malevolent. He is one offended black peacock. He may end like Caligula or Nero, where his own palace guard gets him.