This duration of the past ten days is equivalent to a sport metaphor such as “Three Strikes and You’re Out” does seem appropriate when it comes to political parlance. Thus, permit me to explain in the bleakest of terms.
Take, for example, during the Senate confirmation before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, no Senator, neither Democrat nor Republican, did not exercise any audacity for asking Senator John Kerry as to when the Authority to Use Military Force should expire.
And as a secondary example, in the Senate confirmation before the Senate Armed Services Committee, no Senator, neither Democrat nor Republican, did not exercise any simplistic behavior for asking former Senator Chuck Hagel as to when the Authority to Use Military Force should expire.
Further and tomorrow, Director John Brennan, in his Senate confirmation before the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, no Senator, neither Democrat nor Republican, will exercise any fundamental behavior for asking the “tough” question as to when the Authority to Use Military Force should expire.
Consequently,America’s Latino community, writ large, effectively understands that the conservatives’ self-empowerment for the national stage relative to the Great War on Terror must continue unabated and yet, must be preserved indefinitely, given thatAmerica’s wealth must be spent, especially when this wealth is generated from the Middle Class and the Poor.
After ten years, this short history shows that as a nation, we are not ‘changing’ any global history or even the pretense of any possible future, albeit, created on the speciousness that ‘weapons of mass destruction’ were available in one emblematic nation residing in the Middle East.



4 Comments

Yep, and the forecast is no changes and the same going ahead for a long time until it all collapses of its own volitions and greed.
Rcc’d.
Pretty much, but a global war on terror does ensure a pathway to citizenship
Yes that is indeed the number one issue in foreign policy. Only you have both the AUMF for Iraq and the AUMF for the GWOT (Afghanistan) to consider.
Larue
Thanks for the recommendation.
When I think of the Senate’s approval of the AUMF, and with 23 votes in opposition, I would’ve thunk that these 23 votes would show up each year when it came to spending monies on War, but that’s not occurred. Obviously, these Opposition Votes are now America’s mainstream consensus.
Jaango
TarheelDem,
It’s sad to hear that the expected 1.7% increase expected for our men and women in uniform is now being pared back to 1.0% at the request of Panetta, given that the ‘sequestration’ will be damaging to the DOD. But, up until the “defict hawks” took their loud voice, since being proven wrong, now the it’s up to the Tea Party afficionados in the House to determine where America’s next ‘crisis’ will appear to reside.
And yes, I know that Panetta is retiring, he doesn’t have the chops to challenge the Tea Party on his way out the door. Alas, he has been quite satified to see that the issue of the AUMF, has yet to be addressed.
Jaango