Posted by
rycK on Monday, May 25, 2009 1:53:50 PM
Colin Powell Belongs
in the Party of Democrats
As a
Democrat, but not exactly a loyal one--although
I was during the JFK Era, I can see that we desperately need another
ideological bootlicker with tassels and glitter who can cause problems in the
Republican camp. I see that Colin Powell can fulfill that mission. Powell is a phony.
But, he can serve as a useful idiot in his current place for certain
political essays for the radical left.
Powell’s ‘record’ is not very
impressive:
[a] He began as just another ordinary ROTC flunky
from a nowhere college with poor grades. He did not emerge with honor from VMI
or one of the military academies such as West Point. Therefore, his training was
slight and sloppy. There are sound reasons why military academies produce fine
soldiers. They filter out losers, wimps and cowards and only promote the finest
and most honorable. It takes years of loyal obedience and hard work and
attention to detail to become a general officer. Affirmative action politics
and political actions only reward losers if they push aside more qualified
candidates. He could not get his promotions honestly. He is a gold brick.
[b] His
tours in Viet Nam consisted of valiantly stepping
on a pungi stake in the bush and, while recuperating for several dozen years
from this life-threatening episode, and in his first political assignment he wrote:
“"In direct refutation of this portrayal is
the fact that relations between American soldiers and the Vietnamese people
are excellent." He wrote this while assigned
to the unit that caused the so-called My Lai Incident. He was apparently
‘playing the game’ here but on the wrong side. He could have denounced our
soldiers as baby killers and he might have been made a 10 Star Field Marshal on
the spot. He spent the rest of his long
and expensive career on ‘staff” duties whatever that means. He is an
insubordinate, churlish, opportunistic paper pusher.
[c] Powell’s only display of courage was scurrying
out of crashed helicopter and helping to rescue some of his comrades. Apart
from the gratuitous medals that gushed forth from the moon and stars upon this
incident, he was a paper pusher and politico the rest of his life.
[d] He used some kind of political influence to get into Nixon’s Administration and later on Ronald Reagan’s
staff. I suppose a black Republican was so novel that the Republicans could not
resist this novel political vector. He is pro affirmative action, predictably, as
that is all that got him into the military as an officer. He is pro ‘choice’ on abortion and favors gun control as would any pedestrian grade
leftist. He defends homosexuals in the military as he somehow pushed through
the military's Don't
ask, don't tell policy into full
force thus collecting points with the gay community. He was passed over by his superiors
for ‘being average’ He is not even average. He doesn’t have the attributes to be an
officer in the military arena. He does have the appropriate political skills
however.
[e] He has a foul mouth and is prone to
divisive internal infighting and insubordination as he stated “…[ in a conversation with British Foreign
Secretary, Jack Straw,] he reportedly referred to neoconservatives within the
Bush administration as "f**king crazies.” These people were presumably on the same team. Powell was
obviously on a different team—the enemy team.
[f] He stated: "The world is beginning to doubt the moral
basis of our fight against terrorism."
[g] But, the phoniest part of his pseudo
military mystique is the hokum and claptrap about the infamous Powell Doctrine:
The
Powell Doctrine states that a list of questions all have to be answered
affirmatively before military action is taken by the United States:
[1] Is a vital national security interest
threatened?
[2] Do we have a clear attainable objective?
[3] Have the risks and costs been fully and
frankly analyzed?
[4] Have all other non-violent policy means
been fully exhausted?
[5] Is there a plausible exit strategy to
avoid endless entanglement?
[6] Have the consequences of our action been
fully considered?
[7] Is the action supported by the American
people?
[8] Do we have genuine broad international
support?
Let’s
answer some of his questions!
It is amusing that the answers to his
questions [1-5] would preclude our involvement in the Revolutionary War, our
Civil War, WW1,2, Korea and Viet Nam and even his own war in Iraq. What was our objective in World War 1? What was our exit
strategy? What “non-violent policy options were fully exhausted in World War 2?
This strange doctrinal notion appears to suggest
that you can put an accountant on to the war scene like our famous hokum-and-blow
artist Robert S. McNamara and ask him to
crank out some numbers that promise a reasonable risk/benefit analysis is pure
sophistry. Thusly, we can win a war with some computer simulations on body
count and such. LBJ fired that bozo.
Bush should have fired Powell.
Question [5] offers us the opportunity to talk
about the hilarious examples of the
Philippine Islands in the Spanish American War, parts of Cuba and Puerto
Rico, and a mere 5-6 decades as a
stagnant and expensive occupational
force in Germany and Japan along with other follies. Where was our exit strategy?
Why are we still in Germany and Japan? Did Hitler get away and remains hidden? Can we give back Puerto Rico yet?
Question [6] makes us ask why FDR risked our
economy with another depression. Oh! For socialism—that makes sense.
Question [7] must be answered a resounding
‘no’ if we look at the very unpopular War with Mexico, Viet Nam and possibly Korea and certainly Iraq. There is no “fully supported war” on record by our people including
our revolutionary war. This unsophisticated statement promises power to the
pacifist movement, an important wing of the leftist Democrats.
Powell spent the last few years as a dry gulcher in direct support of the liberals. He is credited with: “Powell further questioned McCain's judgment
in appointing Sarah Palin as the vice presidential candidate, stating that
despite the fact that she is admired, "now that we have had a chance to
watch her for some seven weeks, I don't believe she's ready to be president of
the United States, which is the job of the vice president." This is amusing as we can not find any complaints from him about Plugs the Buffoon who is now some kind of gaff-launching ‘VP’ lounging around in
the Obama tent. As a Democrat he is beyond the reach of Colin’s acid tongue. Sarah Palin suddenly loomed as a tremendous
threat to O’Bozo and need to be put down by all hands. Powell jumped in to
denigrate her as per command by his superiors in the Party of Democrats. She
electrified the Republican Party and is now a shining star in that
constellation. She will be back.
Colin Powell is a churlish opportunist and a closet
racist who built his career by milking affirmative action policies, bawling and
whining when he could not make the next grade and then by seeking political
help to get his promotion and finally
stabbing his benefactors in the back. He is a political blackguard. He is a
disgrace to the military. When he finally becomes regularly disinvited to
authentic Republican activities he can revert to his narrow political profile
and move over to the liberals where he will be celebrated as someone undercover
and spread disease among the enemy. He might get his third Medal of Freedom for
that.
I want him back in my party and I will offer
to have him mechanically instruct me on how to vote on my ballot if he switches
over to the Party of the People. I 0we him that much as a fellow Viet Nam vet. We welcomed Arlen Specter as he performed as the buffoon he
promised to be. We suckered him into yielding many party chair powers. That is
one more loser in our camp.
For the first time in my adult life I am ashamed of one of my
country’s soldiers. But, my party needs and nurtures losers like this if they
can bring in votes.
rycK
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