Dispatches From The War That Nobody Wants

Don’t know if anyone actually went to the link and read the entire story. Walter Russell Mead sums up the O’admin’s enthusiastic embrace of plausible deniability in one phrase when he calls Obama the “ain’t no war” POTUS.

It’s rather like this hysterically amusing flip flop on the Libyan consulate attack… i.e. it’s spontaneous. No… wait, it’s planned. Fact is it seems that most of the well read world know, and has known for some time, it was a planned terrorist attack – and the only ones who appear to be in the dark is the Obama admin and their supportive media cheerleaders.

It’s quite the ambitious uphill battle to attempt to reeducate the public into an alternative universe of truth for political expediency, and to mask Hillary’s unforgivable performance for State Dept’s security.

But back to Mead. Summarized, he points out that the Obama admin is indeed continuing the Bush policies, waging a war on terror while trying to pretend that war doesn’t exist.

No doubt all the respectable and enlightened people who are working so hard in the government and the media to prevent public opinion from connecting these dots and drawing the conclusion that the war on terror is still real, still global and still going on have good reasons for doing so. They fear that talking too much about the threat would hand propaganda victories to those we would call our enemies if we were calling spades spades. They also fear that whether they speak of a global war on terror, a global war on radical Islamist terror, or even a global war against fanatical religious terror groups without specifying the religion they will polarize the world and make the whatever-it-is that much worse. Islamophobia would sweep the west, and westophobia (misdusism? hatred of the west) would sweep the Muslim world, and the clash of civilizations that our enemies want and that we hope to avoid would become that much more likely.

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The Obama administration has pursued a complex and not wholly misguided strategy in the war it claims not to be fighting. It has bombed the bejeezus out of people it doesn’t like, and a very serious and focused set of multinational counter terrorism operations are, thank goodness, constantly going on. These operations include vigorous domestic operations as well as international ones, and the Obama administration has pretty consistently worried more about cracking down on potential threats than on pleasing the ACLU.

The White House has also sought, mostly unsuccessfully, to win over public opinion in the Islamic world by bombarding the region not only with drones but also with kind words about Islam and it has offered intermittent and inconsistent support for political change. And, though it may not like to admit this to itself, it is exploiting the sectarian divide in the Islamic world to keep the Sunni and Shiite crazies focused on killing each other rather than being free to devote all their energy to the more difficult task of killing us. Meanwhile, it is hoping that moderate Islamism as we see it in places like Turkey and Egypt can tame Islam into a political force with which we can coexist.

Neither Republicans nor Democrats will admit this in the heat of an election campaign, but there aren’t many substantive differences between this general approach and the policy of the Bush administration in its second term.

The biggest difference, and perhaps the only remaining substantial one, is the effort to downplay the existence of a violent global struggle against the terrorists and their perverted ideas.It may be that one reason the administration clings so hard to this approach is the need of its officials even at the most senior levels to avoid recognizing the degree to which they are following in the despicable footsteps of the man they so deeply loathe—and to do what they can to disguise that reality from their supporters. Many Democrats deeply want their party to be anti-war; we have an ‘ain’t-no-war’ President instead of an anti-war one and with that the left of the Democratic Party must make do.

This attempt to mask the continued prosecution of a war he says doesn’t exist, and avoid disclosing ugly factual events, is not confined to pretending that O’foreign policy failures are non existent. There’s also been the plausible deniability approach to hide economic realities that face the US and globe, as the “ain’t no war” POTUS also runs a parallel “economy is recovering” scam by suppressing and delaying news and actions until beyond election day.

For the most part, there is media out there that is reporting the truth… which is why most of us who read know about it. So it seems that the only ones being suckered by their denials is the POTUS, those that are in his adoring press, and anyone left in the nation who only listens to the biased MSM.

It’s for this reason that former Democrat pollster, Pat Caddell, spoke at the conservative AIM Conference this past week, and solemnly announced that the media has now officially become the enemy of the American people.

You can also read the transcript of the speech here.

It’s almost surreal watching this… having a good portion of the “respected” MSM, plus a POTUS, attempt to convince us that what we see and know about in news and events isn’t actually real. That tactic is certainly going to work for the uneducated, blind O’devotee voter.

The more interesting question will be, just how much of the voting population is made up of those?