Tomorrow belongs, tomorrow belongs, tomorrow belongs to ME!

[fpb]

The morality, responsibility and consistency of those who voted for the winner may be gauged by the statement - which I have already encountered three or four times - that they "hope" that those of us who warned them against him were wrong.

Hope.

They have elected a politician to the most powerful post in the West based on what they hope he will prove.

Such appalling insouciance and irresponsibility is certain to be punished. God may delay His punishment for sin - often to the next world - but He never intermits anything to the punishment for stupidity, which is always paid, and paid strictly and with plenty of interest, here on Earth.

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[fpb.livejournal.com]

You have to remember that to sustain war-fighting in the area, you would need either an air bridge of Berlin proportions - and where are the resources for that, let alone the ability to defend them from any enemy attack? - or a seaborne landing to open a bridgehead from the south and build up a force large enough to open a new front that would swiftly become the main front, while at the same time still preserving the surrounded forces in Afghanistan from destruction. It would take forces of World War Two proportions. Also, in order to distract Pakistani and Iranian forces from Afghanistan and the beachhead, the Americans would have to engage in serious strategic bombing against the enemy, which would cause publicity so bad it would make Abu Ghraib look like a Disney movie. If Obama ever starts a war in these conditions, he will count as the worst military leader since Pietro Badoglio if not Ambrose Burnside.

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

Yes, fighting that two-front war would require a World War II level of committment. That's why I said that Obama's proposed policies are either contradictory or very naive. I think he assumes that everyone will cooperate with his ends simply because he isn't Bush.