Ralph Peters: Why Team Obama Was Blindsided by the Bergdahl Backlash
The president, too, appears stunned. He has so little understanding of (or interest in) the values and traditions of our troops that he and his advisers really believed that those in uniform would erupt into public joy at the news of Bergdahl's release - as D.C. frat kids did when Osama bin Laden's death was trumpeted.
Both President Obama and Ms. Rice seem to think that the crime of desertion in wartime is kind of like skipping class. They have no idea of how great a sin desertion in the face of the enemy is to those in our military.
The only worse sin is to side actively with the enemy and kill your brothers in arms.
This is not sleeping in on Monday morning and ducking Gender Studies 101.
But compassion, please! The president and all the president's men and women are not alone.
Our media elite - where it's a rare bird who bothered to serve in uniform - instantly became experts on military justice. Of earnest mien and blithe assumption, one talking head after another announced that "we always try to rescue our troops, even deserters."
President Obama did this to himself (and to Bergdahl). This beautifully educated man, who never tires of letting us know how much smarter he is than the rest of us, never stopped to consider that our troops and their families might have been offended by their commander-in-chief staging a love-fest at the White House to celebrate trading five top terrorists for one deserter and featuring not the families of those soldiers (at least six of them) who died in the efforts to find and free Bergdahl, but, instead, giving a starring role on the international stage to Pa Taliban, parent of a deserter and a creature of dubious sympathies (that beard on pops ain't a tribute to ZZ Top).
How do you say "outrageous insult to our vets" in Pashto? Nor, during the recent VA scandal, had the president troubled himself to host the families of survivors of those vets who died awaiting care. No, the warmest attention our president has ever paid to a "military family" was to Mr. and Mrs. Bergdahl.
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I really don;t get the confusion. Barack Obama's MAIN aptitude is winning elections, and managing that process within his ideological framework and understanding of humans.
In the job:
He CANNOT work with others, and prefers not to have personal contact. He cannot stand critical analysis. He sees little reason to compromise both because HE IS RIGHT, and because political gain can be made from that. He sees opposition to his good as varying degrees of evil, and finally he draws to himself others whose Manichean view of reality POLARIZE the entire body politic into paralysis. Worst of all, this renders him unhappy in doing the job, and therefore he becomes sloppy over critical details which grow into bitter realities and thus is and leads in incompetence.
HE CAN'T DO THE JOB HE IS MOST QUALIFIED ***ONLY*** TO WIN VIA SELF PROMOTION
More than any ideology, THIS is why we are witnessing in our lifetimes the worst presidency in HISTORY
just viewed a vid that states the $$$$ the bho and mo have racked up over the years of alinksy (ite) 'tactical operations' --
and-no thing has been/or is being - done about the treasonous actions over the years - (bill ayers comes to mind as a 'bench mark' example - a terrorist turned college professor-teaching our youth) GRRRRRRR
C-CS
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