Thursday, September 18, 2014

A high degree of personal control ...



Today via the 'Cliff Notes' column on the left side of the Wall Street Journal, Fearless Leader will be exercising "a high degree of personal control over airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Syria, officials said."

This of course makes perfect sense. President "O" is in possession of a deep understanding of how to precisely target and destroy terrorist military personnel and assets than the career military professionals he has doing that job. This acquired competency has been honed to perfection while using a laser range finder to help with club selection.

My God, the shear pomposity of it all. It is pure only in its delusion? How unempowered is our military leadership? Perhaps so unempowered that no one could act decisively during the "terrorist action/assassination" in Benghazi?

I can see it unfolding now - incoming call to the secure channel presidential crackberry:

"Mr. President, we have a HTV (High Value Target), the Queen of Diamonds, pos ID, confirmed same Queen of Diamonds recently released from Gitmo for Bergdahl, traveling via armed convoy of our old humvees. Request permission to engage. Repeat, Request Permission to Engage. Roger."

"Colonel, this is Bob, The Big O just shanked one into the long cut off that elevated tee box on 6 at Pinehurst, and the Secret Service guys won't take their shades off to find it. He's getting pretty worked up. I mean it's the third lost ball and we've only been out 40 minutes. We've got our own hot mess going on here Colonel. Can we get right back on that engagement request? Roger."

OK, hit print and drop this in the front of the manilla folder labeled, "Dumb Stuff the Leader of the Free World Did Today", please.