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President-elect Obama says his policy on terrorism strategy will be to uphold high idealsThe Associated Press Friday, January 09, 2009 WASHINGTON — President-elect Obama says his policy on terrorism strategy will be to uphold high ideals.
"....his policy on terrorism strategy will be to uphold high ideals."...and the results will fill still miss our low expectations.
Gang, if this wasn't serious, it'd be laughable.When you go to the link below, you will find that the above is the entire story.http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/news/nation/president-elect-obama-says-his-policy-on-terrorism-strategy-will-be-to-uphold-high-ideals-363622.htmlThe URL has more characters than the copy of the story!Tx, djones, dutch, and whoever else I forgot who is on the front lines of this, you're gonna have a rough four years.
The people who are going to have a rough four years are the US civiilians sitting on high-value targets, not the military. Clinton's approach was to refrain from putting troops on the ground no matter what after the debacle in Somalia, which was terrible from every standpoint except safeguarding his political bacon and prevention of military casualties (Crushing to morale of course since it signaled a total lack of confidence in the ground forces, though that wasn't his intent). I foresee Obama taking a similar approach, especially considering the continuity of staff and senior advisors with the Clinton era. Allies who are in any danger of an actual armed conflict are also in for a pretty rough time.
Dick Morris did a poll prior to Clinton making a decision. I don't really seem Obama doing the same. In that way he is much smarter than Billy-Jeff. I don't know what the man stands for. He does have better people in the DoD than Clinton did. Time will tell.
3-1 Russia rolls over the Ukraine within months of Hussiens coronation.And we will do...not a thing.
Come on, the EU will protect them.....
The AP couldn't write what Obama actually stated, which was to continue with GWB's policies with regard to terrorists. So they took poetic license and changed it a bit so it appears that Obama has a new plan. That is the comedy in all of this.
Barack Obama's cabinet choices are understandably getting most media attention, but everyone knows policy is also made by the sub-cabinet. So we think more public scrutiny should be drawn to Mr. Obama's choice of Dawn Johnsen to lead one of the executive branch's most important legal offices. Her appointment makes sense for a President Gulliver, but not for a Commander in Chief fighting terrorists.Ms. Johnsen became famous in the left-wing blogosphere as an especially arch critic of the Bush Administration's war on terror. As an Indiana University law professor, she took to the Web with such lawyerly analysis as "rogue," "lawless," "outrage," and that's the mild stuff. Now she's been nominated to run the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, which interprets the law for the entire executive branch.One of the OLC's main duties is to defend the Presidency against the inevitable encroachment of the judiciary and Congress on Constitutional authority, executive privilege, war powers, and so forth. Ms. Johnsen knows this, or should, having served as acting OLC head in the Clinton Administration between 1997 and 1998. The office has since become all the more central in a war on terror that has been "strangled by law," to quote Jack Goldsmith, a former Bush OLC chief.Yet Ms. Johnsen seems to think her job isn't to defend the Presidency but to tie it down with even more legal ropes. She has written that "an essential source of constraint is often underappreciated and underestimated: legal advisors within the executive branch." And in touting her qualifications, the Obama transition cited her recent law review articles "What's a President to Do?: Interpreting the Constitution in the Wake of the Bush Administration's Abuses"; and "Faithfully Executing the Laws: Internal Legal Constraints on Executive Power."In other words, Mr. Obama has nominated as his main executive branch lawyer someone who believes in diminishing the powers of the executive branch. This is akin to naming a conscientious objector as the head of the armed forces, or hiring your wife's divorce lawyer to handle your side of the settlement too...........................This is far from an academic exercise, because the OLC's advice is traditionally binding for the executive branch except in rare cases where it is overruled by the President or Attorney General. To the extent that such a mentality seeps across the executive branch, it will begin to make our spies and other war fighters risk-averse and overcautious. This is precisely what happened during the Clinton years after Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick's infamous 1995 memo instructed FBI agents and federal prosecutors to go "beyond what the law requires" in limiting their collaboration against al Qaeda.
Quite the contrary. I think what was written is all that The Rookie has in the form of a policy on terrorism.
I'm with you, Tx.
BTW--great job on the President's farewell ceremony!
