R.I.P

It's time for a memorial, time to honor the passing of not one, but many who have been near and dear to our American hearts over the years.  First let us give a hearty farewell to TOTUS, Telepromptor of the United States, who met with an untimely demise this week.  But seriously ...

 Dying before our eyes is a time when our military could actually shoot back at the enemy.  The first order from America’s new commander is that the Marines must not return enemy fire for fear of killing an Afghan non-combatant.

We will soon be morning the passing of our current relationship with our doctors and insurance companies.   President Barack Obama is pushing for a government health care bill, any bill, something he can sign and brag about as another 'accomplishment' under his administration.  

Let us remember all the victims of illegal aliens here in the US.  Mourn the days of secure borders, agencies that enforce current laws and actually deport illegals.  The victims and their families have to peace.

R.I.P the days of US presidents shunning evil dictators like Hugo Chavez et al.  There was a time not so long ago that countries along with their leaders were considered evil.  US presidents didn't pal around with them, they avoided them when they came to the United Nations.  Kiss those days goodbye for now.

R.I.P. to government politicians who actually believe in the truth, who offer up bills without extra evils sneaked into them without public knowledge and R.I.P. to agencies who actually provide accurate reports and do not try to hide facts that don't fit their agenda.

R.I.P. a time when media actually reported events as they happened, without their personal slant or political agenda and a time when media did not bury information they didn't like.

R.I.P. a time when America could actually go and kill their enemies.

[snip] that the U.S. government has attempted to locate and kill al Qaeda members is not shocking. Bush’s signing of a classified finding authorizing the assassination of al Qaeda members has been a poorly kept secret for many years now, and the U.S. government has succeeded in killing al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.

While Hellfire missiles are quite effective at hitting trucks in Yemen and AC-130 gunships are great for striking walled compounds in the Somali badlands, there are many places in the world where it is simply not possible to use such tools against militants. One cannot launch a hellfire from a UAV at a target in Milan or use an AC-130 to attack a target in Doha. Furthermore, there are certain parts of the world — including some countries considered to be U.S. allies — where it is very difficult for the United States to conduct counterterrorism operations at all. These difficulties have been seen in past cases where the governments have refused U.S. requests to detain terrorist suspects or have alerted the suspects to the U.S. interest in them, compromising U.S. intelligence efforts and allowing the suspects to flee.

A prime example of this occurred in 1996, when the United States asked the government of Qatar for assistance in capturing al Qaeda operational mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was living openly in Qatar and even working for the Qatari government as a project engineer. Mohammed was tipped off to American intentions by the Qatari authorities and fled to Pakistan. According to the 9/11 commission report, Mohammed was closely associated with Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalid al-Thani, who was then the Qatari minister of religious affairs. After fleeing Doha, Mohammed went on to plan several al Qaeda attacks against the United States, including the 9/11 operation.

Given these realities, it appears that the recently disclosed assassination program was intended to provide the United States with a far more subtle and surgical tool to use in attacks against al Qaeda leaders in locations where Hellfire missiles are not appropriate and where host government assistance is unlikely to be provided.  [snip]

 ...  Panetta has announced in a very public manner that the United States has taken one important tool entirely out of the counterterrorism toolbox: Al Qaeda no longer has to fear the possibility of clandestine American assassination teams.   (continue at StratFor)

R.I.P.

Please enjoy this week’s Watcher of Weasels Council submissions.  I'm sure there are many things you value that fall under the R.I.P category.

Council Submissions

• Joshuapundit - Using The “J” Word
• Rhymes With Right - WaPo: Do As We Say, Not As Obama Did
• The Glittering Eye - Fallacies in Healthcare Reform (Updated)
• The Colossus of Rhodey - Still more on Honduras
• Bookworm Room - Sterilizing our way to paradise
• Soccer Dad - A masterful assuaging
• Mere Rhetoric - Khamenei Seizes Control Of Iranian Republican Guard Militias, Installs Son As Head Thug
• The Provocateur - Dr. Charles Nemeroff and Emory University’s Culture of Corruption
• Right Truth - Relentless pursuit of destruction 2009
• The Razor - Book Review – Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture

Non-Council Submissions

• Submitted By: The Watcher – Christian Science Monitor - Nearly all my professors are Democrats. Isn’t that a problem?
• Submitted By: The Watcher – Legal Insurrection - Sotomayor Threw O’Connor Under The Bus
• Submitted By: Joshuapundit – David Kahane/NRO - I Still Hate You Sarah Palin
• Submitted By: Rhymes With Right – Big Lizards - Who’s an Embryo? St. Francis of Genomia at the NIH
• Submitted By: The Glittering Eye – zombietime - John Holdren, Obama’s Science Czar, says: Forced abortions and mass sterilization needed to save the planet
• Submitted By: The Colossus of Rhodey – The Chronicle Review - Islamic Civilization in Peril
• Submitted By: Bookworm Room – Rebirth of Reason - Dinner at the White House — a parable
• Submitted By: Soccer Dad – Rubin Reports - Al-Jazira’s Cartoons: A Glimpse at Real Mainstream Arab Thinking
• Submitted By: Mere Rhetoric – David Kahane / NRO - I Still Hate You, Sarah Palin
• Submitted By: The Provocateur – Politics Daily - Sarah “Barracuda” Palin and the Pirahnnas of the Press
• Submitted By: Right Truth – American Thinker - Obama the Trickster
• Submitted By: The Razor – IBD Editorials - Truth In Lending: Behind the Meltdown

Comments

[ARE]

ANGEL, IM GOING TO FIND YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Debbie]

Revolution In Progress, I like that.

We should be fighting with all we have to defeat Obama's programs and administration.

[Ron Russell]

Good post Debbie. Another meaning for RIP. Revolution In Progress, think about it.

[MK]

Well said, a good post. The greater RIP in all this though, is that all those small things eventually lead to the demise of the western world as a whole.

RIP Western civilization.

[Angel]

oish hussein and his pathetic teleprompter!..lol