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Last edited by Rockntractor; 11-12-2012 at 01:15 AM.
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
And clever in their own sight! Isaiah 5:20-21 NASB
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11-12-2012, 01:16 AM
Go to the light my little friend, go to the light!
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
And clever in their own sight! Isaiah 5:20-21 NASB
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While you were hanging yourself , on someone else's words
Dying to believe in what you heard
I was staring straight into the shining sun
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11-12-2012, 12:03 PM
You really have no concept of how the armed forces work, do you? We spend our careers moving between different kinds of jobs, some staff, some command, with a certain amount of time in professional education. This isn't evidence of failure, but of development. War is a complex business, and requires study as well as field work. The "hopscotching" that you derisively refer to is actually movement through a series of increasingly demanding and complex jobs, in which the officer in question performs critical functions at each level of the army, eventually culminating in command of one of the major Army commands, or the chairmanship of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It is a difficult and demanding career, far more so than whatever it is that you do for a living, and he deserves more than the casual mockery of someone who wouldn't have made it past the first rung of the ladder.
Bush would not have had a radical like Jarrett on his staff, but the Obama's consider her indispensable. She is the only White House staffer who accompanies the Obamas to their quarters at the end of the day, and she wields more power than the White House Chief of Staff (and she has ousted two who ran afoul of her). She's their Cardinal Richelieu (or Cardinal Mazarin, since Richelieu actually understood how to wage war and defeat adversaries), and like the courtiers of France, she wields power far beyond the title of her job. Remember also that Obama has not bothered with the majority of his intel briefings, but he's never blown off Jarrett. The previous National Security Advisor stated that Obama spent almost no time with him, and GEN McChrystol had to wait the better part of a year to get action on his Afghanistan plan, but it only took Obama a day to decide to fire him over comments made by his staff, off the record, and published in a scurrilous music rag. If Jarrett wanted the DCI fired, Petraeus didn't stand a chance.--Odysseus
Sic Hacer Pace, Para Bellum.
Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the people!
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11-12-2012, 04:02 PM
James R. Clapper.
Gawdalmighty. When I see that man's name, I think back to this interview in which he looked like a complete imbecile:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/director-na...0#.UKFHfuRlFIEU.S. Army, Retired
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11-12-2012, 04:08 PM
" To the world you are just one more person, but to a rescued pet, you are the world."
"A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves!"
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11-12-2012, 08:19 PM
Is the affair still in the news? For crying out loud, have him flip to D and buy him some cigars. He could be president.
Be Not Afraid.
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