Unfortunately, and also very sadly, I have to go back and revisit one of my posts to caligirl where I said “this isn’t Vietnam”. But there are now some very “vietnam-esque” traits happening.

Bo-Bo is about to become “the general”. After so many weeks of partying and jetting about like a rock star, it is slowly sinking in that the American public just might not see him as the responsible type, and like a true narcissist, he has to do some damage control.

What better way than to “go talk to those general guys and open up a can of whoop-ass on the enemy….then they’ll HAVE to take me seriously.”

Remember president Johnson and the way he kept getting our boys killed? The entire administration was responsible for a “war of escalation” with key strategic and tactical targets off-limits in order to preserve his political career. What Johnson failed to realize and Obama is a cookie-cutter copy of the same aspiration, is that you can’t have it both ways. They fail to realize that they are not the ones who should be running the battleplan.

And, with Obama, there is nothing worse than having him micromanage anything having to do with the military. What I foresee is this:

The generals will (once again, as with Vietnam) become hog-tied and hobbled by politically driven restrictions, thus resulting in more US soldiers killed.

That equipment needed on the battlefield will not be forthcoming because the administration and Obama will want to show the public a scaling down of the military while at the same time declaring victory over and over in Afghanistan.

Of all the money that is to be spent in the “stimu-loss” plan, none of it goes to military hardware.

The fundamental problem is that this administration and the president all hate the military with a bile-boiling, gut-wrenching, core hatred. That kind of hatred can only come from years of being taught how to hate.

And they, even if they were the most well-intentioned souls on the planet……they cannot escape themselves and their vile anger towards anything in uniform. So when generals ask for more equipment, they will get “how little can you take to get the job done?” and a repeat of generals who are afraid for their careers not cooperating with this pathetic administration.

When the US went into Iraq in 1991, we won quickly, efficiently and that was as much a testimony to our military as it was to the fact that President Bush gave his generals the freedom to do as they saw fit to get the job done.

Anytime the government intervenes in such things, it costs US lives. This is not to say there is a broader scope, which is something to the effect of a president saying what the objective is and allowing the generals to do so. But micromanaging and hand-picking targets is what happened in Vietnam and, some say, prolonged an operation way beyond its practical limit.

I fear the same will happen here. Well, it’s beyond fear. That fear is realized simply by virtue of the president we have. Management is not his forte’. Denying that of himself, he will, naturally, find himself the best choice to “play army” and show everyone that he is a “masterful” tactician. After all, it works in politics, why not the battlefield, right?

So in one, sad sense, it’s good that this administration lifted the ban on photographing caskets of soldiers’ remains being repatriated because the world is about to see what happens when a president of Obama’s ineptitude tries to run a war.

I think Code Pink will then do an about face and want to skewer this anointed saintly prince among criminals.

He will send under-supported infantry on Somali-like operations that accomplish nothing but a splash of headlines for an afternoon. Then, when angry patriots like SFC Randall Shughart’s family confront him about his limp-wristed attempt to eradicate the Taliban/al-Qaeda/Pakistani threat, he will have a Clinton-like response of, “Why are they made at me? I didn’t kill the kid.” http://sweetness-light.com/arc.....clinton-do

While simultaneously sending in real men to kill Pakistani’s, he apologizes to the world for US missile defense systems in Poland and the Ukraine. Typical Orwellian doublespeak from an adolescent who has never led men.