Friday, October 5, 2012

Harrier Squadron wiped out in Afganistan


Subject: Harrier Squadron wiped out in Afganistan

This is an excerpt from an article by Mark Steyn, my favorite Canadian.  This is the first place I had heard of the incident and wonder how many others have no knowledge of it either.  File it under Are you mad yet, I guess.

Two weeks ago in this space, I wrote that, in striking contrast to the official line, the Benghazi slaughter was not a spontaneous movie review that got a little out of hand but a catastrophic security breach and humiliating fiasco for the United States. Even more extraordinary, on Sept. 14, fewer than two dozen inbred, illiterate goatherds pulled off the biggest single destruction of U.S. airpower since the Tet Offensive in 1968, breaking into Camp Bastion (an unfortunate choice of name) in Afghanistan, killing Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher Raible, and blowing up a squadron's worth of Harriers. And, even though it was the third international humiliation for the United States in as many days, it didn't even make the papers. Because the court eunuchs at the media are too busy drooling over Obama's appearance as what he calls "eye candy" on the couch between Barbara and Whoopi.

Eye candy is in the eye of the beholder. And to the baying mob from Tunis to Jakarta those dead Americans and al-Qaida flags over U.S. embassies and an entire USMC air squadron reduced to charred ruins are a veritable Willie Wonka production line of eye candy. To the president, they're just "bumps in the road" to the sunlit uplands of "the future." Forward! Obama has lived on "the promise of the future" all his life – Most Promising Columbia Grad of 1983, Most Promising Community Organizer of 1988, Most Promising Fake Memoirist of 1995, Most Promising Presidential Candidate of 2008 ... The rest of us, alas, have to live in the present that he has made, which is noticeably short of promise. The Chinese Politburo get it, Czar Putin in the Kremlin gets it, and even the nutters doing the "Death to the Great Satan!" dance on the streets of Cairo and Lahore get it. On Nov. 6, we will find out whether the American people do.

Link to rest of article:   http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1012/steyn100112.php3?printer_friendly


Here is more on the subject:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/campbastion/index?tab=articles

I am so tired of the cover-ups and media bias I want to yell I am sick and tired of it and am not going to take it anymore.  Vote early and often.

1 comment:

happypants said...

Easy enough to find...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19704120