Apologies For Not Posting Last Week

Sorry, folks. Between an inclination to be lazy, in general, and a wait-and-see attitude toward Obama's "brilliant" anti-I.S.I.S. campaign, which goes against the expert military advice of advisors on both ends of the political spectrum (i.e., "no American Boots on the ground"), I have been remiss in not posting for more than a week. But, I have always held to the opinion that if you have nothing to say it's best to keep your "trap" shut. And so I did, figuratively speaking.

But now that we've had a week of night-time bombing raids, which have done a fabulous job of "killing" empty enemy command post headquarters, while I.S.I.S. strategists are presumably sleeping at their safe locations, we can make some preliminary assessments as to their success. Which is not very good. I agree with the retired Army Colonel (I forget his name) who advises Fox News, who explained that the true measure of military success is not surgically blowing up empty rooms while the enemy sleeps peacefully elsewhere, but it is measured in, "acres, and acres of dead enemy bodies" which will most likely require American "boots on the ground". If this can be accomplished without American "boots", fine. But I fail to see the value of night-time raids against empty buildings, while the enemy snores peacefully elsewhere. Is Obama trying to frighten the enemy into a pandemic of heart failure? That's the only reason I can gather for this strategy. They make a big deal out of sending the new F-22 Fighter bombers which are stealthy enough to evade radar detection. Well, they are designed to evade the same radars in the daytime when the I.S.I.S. fighters come out of their holes, so are they able to kill the enemy, or not? And if not, let's send in the Marines to do the job!

Obama's Not Quite Ready To Spit Crow Feathers

In my post on Aug. 22, one of my last points was that it would almost be comical to watch Obama squirm while he's being forced to "eat crow"' in reversing his solemn vow that he would send no more American "boots on the ground" troops to fight I.S.I.S., not counting the 1200-plus troops that he's already sent, and the additional 450 troops that he intends to send. I said it would almost be comical to watch his incredible ineptitude, if the stakes weren't so high, and if he didn't possess such an incredible capacity for poor decision-making when he runs into conflict. He seems to possess the kind of chess-playing numb-skull mind that someone like Russia's Putin would just love to take advantage of. And since America doesn't often have presidents that are such blatant fools I'm sure Putin realizes that he has a short window of opportunity before we elect another Ronald Reagan to follow this Jimmy Carter, in 2016, if we don't impeach him sooner.

So, I expect that Putin will allow us to bomb the heck out of I.S.I.S., which will solidify the position of his ally, Syrian president Bashar Assad, while he plays out his "chess-game" conquest of the Ukraine, then he'll turn his attention to invading Israel, and the rest of the Middle-East, which he thinks will be easy since we won't have any "boots on the ground" to resist him.

Thank God that He doesn't need American "boots" to rescue his people, Israel, and defeat Putin's arrogance, even if we do have a lilly-livered fool of a president who thinks he's making our decisions for us! If God were not ultimately in control, we would be in serious trouble with a man like Obama trying to create his utopian concept of world order. While he tries to give everyone a fair share of the pie, I'm afraid we'd all go up in smoke and ashes with the pie itself!

UPDATE: Sat., Sept. 13: 7:30 am.

The Obama administration has now given up on their effort to not have this called a "war", although it looks like, quacks like, and waddles like one, to everyone outside of the White House, and the State Department. Perhaps he may actually have to get Congress to sign off on this one, running the risk that they may try and force his hand, and send a few thousand "boots on the ground" troops to give the aerial bombardment a realistic chance of success. Heaven forbid that he should actually listen to his Advisors in the Pentagon, and give our troops a reasonable chance of succeeding. That would certainly be unprecedented for our little paper-hanging-World-War-I-Corporal, who believes he knows more about military strategy than his generals do!

Ukaine Cease Fire Agreement Is Signed!!!

Hallelujah!!! Russia's Proxy army, the so-called "pro-Russian Separatists" have reportedly signed a cease-fire agreement with the Ukrainian Government. Whoop-tee-doo!!! We can guess just how long that will last. Just long enough for Putin's invasion forces to entrench themselves, and solidify their conquest of the Land-Bridge they have invaded between Russia and the Crimean Peninsula, without having to worry about the Ukrainian Army trying to drive them back to Russia, because that would certainly be considered a violation of the cease-fire agreement. What a blatantly self-serving agreement they have signed! And Just as soon as Putin is satisfied that his troops are safely established in their Crimean Land-Bridge, he will find some excuse to break the agreement so he can take another bite of Ukrainian territory before proposing a subsequent cease-fire agreement, and so on, until there is no more Ukraine left to conquer.

We can thank our courageous diplomats of the American, and N.A.T.O. partner nations for giving Putin the time he needs to entrench the Russian invasion forces, if only we didn't have to listen to them crow in the international media about what a wonderful break-through this agreement will be, at least until Putin decides he is ready for the next phase of his invasion plan. Sit tight, I don't think this will take long to play out!