21 thoughts on “You Don’t Say”

  2. MIT has made available the full English translation of The Art Of War here. It’s well worth the read, and surprisingly short, only ten thousand words or so – a very dense ten thousand words.

  3. Is there anything worse than a pretender to the throne who won’t even pretend!? I’ve never been a fan, but when you send out military forces to kill people and break things, GD’it, that’s war. Too bad his delicate sensibilities (or advisers) won’t alllow him to just friggin’ say so. It’s as if the Dems just want to make up terms for things that are OBVIOUSLY already named at every turn to keep the rubes from figuring it all out!!! But I gotta tell you, this not war term tops ‘entitlements’ by miles and miles and miles. No one will be able to slither under the actual action of ???, and change the name to supposedly hide the fact more than this, unless the Dems begin to call corpses, IN coffins, IN the ground live voters!!

    Oh, wait.

    Personal intel, from the ‘non-war’ front. ‘I sent my son an e-mail this AM, (he’s on the Keearsarge). I asked him how things were going on the front lines of the ‘kinetic military action’. BEING a career sailor who knew he was being tweaked, he sent me an answer that leaves me to believe that he’s not the father of my (supposed) grandsons!! In fact, it leaves me wondering what he actually knows about sex. I know he spends tons of time at sea, but, WOW!

    There’s just no way I can do that to myself!!!

  4. I wonder if Obama played poker in college? Because this is a flat out gamble with countries and lives on the line. Not sure that letting loose the Dogs of War (half of em, anyway) and letting events take place, while debating Who’s-in-Charge with a (mostly) feckless NATO is a sound strategy. Wonder what Reid and Pelosi are thinking after they turn out the bed lamp?

  5. Who names a military offensive that is only supposed to last days “Odyssey Dawn”.

    Has no one in the Obama administration read the Odyssey?

  6. Has no one in the Obama administration read the Odyssey?

    I’m guessing not. After all, they’re all Harvard, Yale and Princeton grads, so their educations weren’t sullied by being exposed to all those Dead White Males. Not even the non-European ones.

  7. Ed,

    You can’t expect Democrats to read documents. They might have to read the bills they vote on. But here, one could download an audio reading of “Art of War”. It’s short enough to listen to during a short plane trip, say from Rio De Janeiro, Brazil to Santiago, Chile.

  9. I wonder if Obama played poker in college? Because this is a flat out gamble with countries and lives on the line.

    Keep in mind Obamacare. He’s gambled big before.

  11. Is there any application for Saul Alinsky in the war Team France: World Police activity in Libya?

    Sorry, can’t use the word “kinetic” to describe anything involving high levels of testosterone and ordnance. That word makes me think of kinetic art.

  12. Never mind them not having read The Odyssey. Have none of them ever seen a perfume commercial in the 70s? Most of these people are my age. They grew up on tv commercials for those perfumes (most “by Prince Matchabelli” — bet you “Prince” was his first name) with Harlequin-romance-novel-cover names like “Windsong.” I hear “Odyssey Dawn” and I don’t think of bombs bursting in air over a tank formation, I think of a woman in a gauzy pantsuit running across a meadow.

  16. I’m wondering if “Odyssey Dawn” will turn out to be an in joke as a supposed quick in and out operation bogs down into an endless quagmire.

  17. Sigh…You are all confused because you are thinking of this along the lines of your own prejudices. Most of the people who comment on this blog are high achievers who get that way by planning things out, with intent, to achieve some logical, beneficial, goal. You need to put yourself in the Presidents shoes, where this is all a distraction that he wishes would just go away. ‘Look, you wanted me to do something, now i am doing something, so stop bothering me, it is affecting my swing.’

  18. Quote from FrankJ
    “I think we’ve got the rest of the world — especially Europe — used to the idea that America is in charge and will handle anything serious. But when we have an unserious president, basically no one’s in charge and it’s a big mess. You want to know why Obama didn’t consult Congress before going to war? Because he doesn’t know how war works. This is not something he ever took seriously; he expected a presidency full of passing big liberal programs like health care, not any new military action. Still, the guy spent eight years whining about our wars and then goes ahead and starts his own with not exactly on what he’s doing or trying to accomplish — which is just another drop in the bucket with all the other problems he can’t handle. So of course he’s focused on winning the future; what other message does he have right now then, “This will all work out awesome… long after we’re all dead.”

    As Q*bert would say, “@!#?@!”

  19. I’m wondering if “Odyssey Dawn” will turn out to be an in joke as a supposed quick in and out operation bogs down into an endless quagmire.

    No, I think the choice of a clunky, forgettable name was both apt and deliberate.

  20. Most of the people who comment on this blog are high achievers who get that way by planning things out, with intent, to achieve some logical, beneficial, goal.

    Okay. But, um, well, how do you explain that I — definitely not one of the “most” of whom you speak — think Obama’s foreign policy performance doesn’t even rise to the level of “phoning it in”…?

  21. I get the whole 70’s perfume commercial thing, but it was quite a different commercial that came to my mind when I heard that silly name.

    What?

    So I’m a little twisted. I’ve been commenting here for a while, that ain’t news, is it?!

    And wodun hit it on the head.

    I’m doubting they read about the Odyssey, the leader or the crew, not even the Cliff Notes version. I’m thinking the might have read the Communist Manifesto, Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book and Mad Magazine!

    Would anyone join the ALL volunteer military if they thought ONLY the commander would get home from the Odyssey? This is either a silly idea for a name, or a brilliant anti-military idea.

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