Sunday, January 29, 2017

Trump Moves to End the Pentagon Sinecure in Endless War

It seems there is general agreement that Donald Trump's Presidential Executive Orders give us a whole lot of Hollywood but how much they translate into any substantive action remains to be seen.

Now the Pentagon takes a turn and this follows a direct call between Trump and Putin.  The latest Executive Order is for delivery of a battle plan within thirty days for elimination of ISIS.  Regardless of your position on killing the Sand People, you're probably at least minimally pissed regarding the cost due to sixteen years of warring without a plan or real accomplishment.

Ed:  isn't that kind of racist to call them Sand People?

They live in sand countries and the Pentagon has more names for them than Parker Brothers has toys so all that remains as a general descriptor is the Sand People.


Trump has seemingly called 'front and center' to the Pentagon in presenting some coherent plan for what they're trying to accomplish and the Rockhouse hasn't heard more in sixteen years beyond, gee whiz, it sure would be great to whack Hussein and Bush's clone came along eight years later to continue with, gee whiz, it sure would be great to whack Assad.

If we ask why then we get the standard dreck, "You're too stupid to understand because it's complex so the reasons are classified.  It's all in our nation's strategic interests, don't you know."


Well, I don't know and there's no evidence to believe it so seeing Trump apparently calling the Pentagon to account is not at all a bad sign.  (RT: Trump gives Pentagon 30 days to develop strategy to defeat ISIS in Iraq & Syria)

Michael Moore:  what about the ban of refugees?

What the fuck does that have to do with the Pentagon, fat boy?  Here's a tip:  you continue simpering in front of the women's movement with mindlessly inflammatory hysteria which still doesn't get your disgustingly fat ass laid and we will try just a wee bit of focus if you don't mind terribly and here's another tip if you do mind:  we don't give a fuck; you had your turn and you failed.


For a general restatement of the tawdry Rockhouse theme, I can't make crappy music if I'm radioactive and I'm sure the regulars are clear on motivations or at least that one.  The ongoing driver is both teams got a turn at bat with the Middle East fiasco and both teams made one flaming, egregiously expensive mess out of it but it's not even entirely clear how the mess goes when no-one was really sure what they were ever trying to do in the first place.

A long diatribe regarding the Pentagon is just going Michael Moore on them to nag them to death but that's been tried before and it has never worked.


Michael Moore:  you will still make crappy music even if you're not radioactive!

Kee-rist, Moore, you've got an exoskeleton like a fucking lobster and it gets thicker and thicker every year making it more and more difficult to penetrate to what you laughingly call a brain.  The point is not whether I do or do not play crappy music but rather whether I'm radioactive.

Michael Moore:  your music still sucks!


The Rockhouse will continue observing these Executive Orders and the one which has incited the largest furor thus far has been 'extreme vetting' of Muslim immigrants but the vetting was extreme already as I'm sure the regulars know and the hoi polloi has chosen to ignore.  That Order was completely Hollywood and is regarded at the Rockhouse as a racial form of a 55mph speed limit insofar as it's impossible to enforce without hardship to America because there are vastly more good Muslims than bad ones, as is hopefully true of Americans ... or anyone else.

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