Video: Bolton blasts Obama’s delay on Afghanistan

Ed,

Your points regarding Team Obama’s unpreparedness, underinformed, and lack of clarity of the meaning of COIN are incontravertably true. After supposed thorough analysis and selection of COIN as the way to go last March, and susequent reversal of that analysis, there is the implication by your piece that this does not make a lot of sense. That there is a contradiction between Team Obama’s actions, or lack there-of, and their stated ambition’s to arrive at the optimum outcome in the Af-Pak theatre.

A wise and now seemingly sage philosopher once wrote that, “Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong”. I think which premise you will find wrong is the understood definition of what is commonly considered optimal and what Team Obama deems optimal.

As one who worked since 12/26/07 building oppo-research files in connection with one of the presidential election campaigns, my familiarity from that work on Mr Obama is fairly extensive. We are all familiar with Mr Obama;s ties to ACORN, Working Family’s Party, SEIU, AFSCME, etc. What is not as widely known is that the pivotal players in these Org’s as well as substantial others in key positions that helped bring Mr Obama to power, all came out of one original organization back in the 60′s. The Student for a Democratic Society (SDS), and the Weather Underground (WU). Though I have exchanged some terse discourse with former member, Carl Davidson over the joint categorization of the SDS/WU in the comments section after I wrote this article;

http://papundits.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/the-obama-economic-medicine-triage-or-euthanasia/

I liken the relationship between the SDS & WU as that of the IRA & Sinn Fein, one uses direct violence to acheive it’s goals, the other indirectly supports it. Note that Davidson did not dipute the facts those listed were part of the Obama presidential effort, or their stated ambition to over the Democratic Republic of The United States and replace it with Communist rule.

A wise woman once wrote, that; “Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.” The contradiction in this case is your premise that our Af-Pak egagement results in successfully carrying out our “stated goals” there, and re-establishing con fidence among our allies and the rest of the world that we are a reliable partner. I would posit, given those that brought him to the dance and those that are currently twirling about the floor with him have distinctly differnt ideas.

This comment has sparked a stream of conciousness that I can see as the basis of my next article, almost all which seem to originate from my dialogue here on HA, and so will close with the list below. It is an incomplete list of SDS/WU members off the top-of-my-head as the drive with the data on this subject isn’t with me, but all of the listed are directly either part of Obama’s election and/or his coterie of advisors counseling him now. I would list all of their affiliations, except as we have seen with ACORN and it’s appendages they are constantly shuffled around between them, but a simple Google search will reveal their inter-connections. Some you may recognize, others not so much.

Mark Rudd, Carl Davidson, Todd Gitlin, Marilyn Katz, Tom Hayden, Steve Tappis, Andy Stern, Howie Machtlinger, Dale Rathke, Wade Rathke, Paul Booth, Heather Booth, David Fenton, Jeff Jones, Jim Jacobs, and of course Bill Ayers & Bernadine Dorhn. My memory is failing me right now, but if I remember correctly I had positively ID’d 27 that meet this criteria, though I sure there are more that I’ve yet to track down and/or place.

Archimedes on November 12, 2009 at 12:37 PM