Daily Archives: 14 September 2015

Doubling Down

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Russia is expanding its support for the al Assad regime in Syria by inserting its soldiers into the country, ostensibly to “advise” the Syrians on the use of Russian weapons being flooded into there.

In response, President Barack Obama said,

[W]e are going to be engaging Russia to let them know that you can’t continue to double-down on a strategy that is doomed to failure[.]

And yet here is Obama, without a trace of irony, doubling down on his own doomed-to-fail strategy of using idle chit chat to influence an enemy.

Hmm….

An Illustration

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…of an unacceptably bloated bureaucracy.

As most of you know, President Barack Obama is bent on releasing as many terrorists from our Guantanamo detention facility as he can, moving the remainder to US prisons, and closing Gitmo. Whether or not this is a good idea, there is bureaucratic failure involved in the thing.

…officials note that Carter has approved some transfers and is pushing his staff to move quickly to get more to his desk. But many other proposed transfers are slogging through the bureaucracy, under review by a long list of defense, military, intelligence, and other administration offices.

There’s no excuse for this. It’s a simple, yes or no, question. The terrorist can be released or not. There’s no reason for delays.

DoD and the other cabinets and agencies in the Executive Branch (and in the other Branches) badly need personnel downsizing, military and civilian, with the personnel—highly experienced, all—returned to the private sector.

There is no excuse for the slow-walking.