About Eeyore

Canadian artist and counter-jihad and freedom of speech activist as well as devout Schrödinger's catholic

9 Replies to “9/11 and the future of US foreign policy: A speech by Vice President Richard B. Cheney”

  1. Dick Cheney absolutely nails it with every word of his speech. It’s great to know there’s someone who actually knows what’s going on.

    Interestingly, Barack Obama has given us all an object lesson in the nature and value of, “American exceptionalism”. I had never really thought it through before, but faced with the fact that there is always going to be someone who is the strongest, who would you rather that stronger party be? China? Iran? Russia? If anyone were to have control over the internet, for instance, what country would you rather that be than the US, with their proven track record of being sticklers over freedom of speech etc? If those other guys had control, you know damn well that no site would last the week if it posted things that those governments didn’t like. Right? How about blasphemy laws? How about freedom of speech itself? Thank you Barry, for making the point so well…

    • Yes Obama is reminding the world of what the US is suppose to be and will be once again, we are being continually bombarded with the Meme that the US is finished and that India, China or Russia will take over as the worlds dominate nations. Well the first to nations have several first world cities surrounded by massive third world nations and the last is currently showing the world how WWII started and how WWIII is going to start. Don’t forget that at the beginning of WWII the US was bankrupt thanks to socialist policies and that we managed to turn around and defeat both Germany and Japan in 4 years. During this time we rebuilt our nations and our economy so we know how to do it again if we can get the left out of power.

      • Oh Yeah we are an excpetional nations with exceptional citizens, when we can get the left and big government out of the way we can do just about anything.

      • Right!
        Talk about lack of preparedness!
        When WWII started most recruits were skinny and generally unhealthy. They were Depression era kids and it showed.
        We went into jungles w/o quinine and not even enough aspirin to relieve the jungle fevers. The first wave in the War in the Pacific didn’t have summer kit.

        I get carried away on this subject. It was in my pablum.

        • For most of the first year the people training to use tanks were driving cars or trucks with TANK painted on them, and a lot of people didn’t have any rifles after basic and infantry training, there weren’t enough to equip all units. Obama was trying to recreate that situation when he handed out all of the “surplus” military equipment to the nations police force, this policy had the advantage (from Obamas POV) of tying the local police closer to DC and possibly driving them further from the local politicians.

        • We just threw lives away in North Africa. American doctors in New Guinea turned to witch doctors when aspirin ran out. Quinine was a dream, a mirage.

        • When POS is totally humiliated, wiser voices may prevail to start re-building our conventional force strength.

          If we don’t get spiffy-up our materiel, we’ll be painting “tank” on Pakistani taxi-cabs.

          Our systems R&D has taken a hit, but at least we can depend on Israel there.

        • They did what the military always does in a situtation, they bought time for the US to train and arm a force that could win the war.

          When I was serving in Germany we were told that if the balloon went up we were to destroy the equipment and buildings burn the classified material and link up with an infantry unit to get infantry training OJT, us filling in slots in the infantry would let the military buy time to get enough people over to win the war.

          This logic is called the cold equation and anyone serving that has any brains knows about it and when they are on the nasty side of the Cold Equation. Think of it as a form of triage in a disaster letting a few die from no treatment so more can be saved.