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you ain't no killer, you a pussy:
 Before I begin this post, let me say: Fuck the Boston Red Sox and all their fans. Except for Samantha Power and Megan Carpentier. This means you, Professor Simpson.That's by way of saying that Dean Barnett of the Weekly Standard critiques "The Obama Doctrine," and in so doing reveals why neoconservatism can never destroy al-Qaeda. He has a lot of cute lines to disguise the fact that he doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about. So for instance. Barnett takes Power's quote about draining the swamps of extremism by attacking "climates of fear" and comments: "Climates of fear" are indeed a bad thing, and they can produce undesirable results. But is the principal American foreign policy challenge today really based on people acting out because they live in "climates of fear?" Does al Qaeda act out of fear, or does something more malicious lie in the jihadist heart?What Barnett will never understand is that the real danger from al-Qaeda isn't just the people who've joined al-Qaeda. It's the much larger cohort of people who could join al-Qaeda, and the larger-still cohort of those who would not actively help the U.S. destroy al-Qaeda. Those latter two population clusters are where any anti-al-Qaeda strategy has to focus. And there, yeah, climates of fear -- in other words, the experience of people pinioned between the militia on the corner and the U.S.-backed regime that it fights. Those people come to hate the U.S. Lots of them. And it only takes a small number of them to decide to act on that hatred. Power is (or rather was) just one of the high-minded Doctrinaires whose résumé evidences a certain fondness for dovish idealism. Sarah Sewall is, according to Ackerman, one of Obama's closest advisors. Sewall made her bones as a human rights advocate and disarmament advocate. Disarmament advocates since their regrettable Helen Caldecott led heyday in the 80's have never been a repository for hard-headed foreign policy prescriptions.Just laughably stupid. What Barnett evidently doesn't realize is that Sarah Sewall helped write the fucking Army and Marine Corps counterinsurgency manual. Is FM 3-24 filled with "dovish idealism"? Remember what this dude wrote the next time anyone from the Weekly Standard tries to take Petraeus or Odierno into their tender mouths. And as long as we're talking COIN, let's tie this all together. Barnett has this line about Obama fighting al-Qaeda but not al-Qaeda in Iraq, which is something John McCain mentioned in his speech yesterday. But look at who AQI is. According to this fascinating briefing that Bits Bacon gave last week, we're talking not just about fanatics. We're talking about the people brainwashed by al-Qaeda into coming to Iraq to blow themselves up -- brainwashed thanks to propaganda victories that the Weekly Standard's chosen policies, like the Iraq war and torture, have yielded. That's the swamp that Dean Barnett and his homies will not only fail to drain, but they'll expand, over and over and over again, no matter how decisively the last five years have shattered everything they believe in. Finally, there's this: [P]erhaps Team Obama could talk to Theo van Gogh. Oh never mind--he's dead. Maybe they could ask Hirsan Ali, who has millions of people who would like to make her dead, too.Her name is Ayaan Hirsi Ali, you dumb douche. Plus, in 2008, the New York Yankees will fuck you up like Obama will AQSL in the Northwest Frontier Province. --Spencer Ackerman
I think "Critiqued" is the wrong word to describe his reaction. |
