Suggestion Box (Shove It!)

This reporter has neither the time nor the inclination to do a thorough job on this recent pile from Carlson's Caller, but this paragraph, from a Kerry Patton (Nom de guerre?) is indicative:

While every American would love to see our best and brightest warriors return home safely and soon, we cannot jump the gun too fast in Iraq and Afghanistan. Less than a week after President Obama stated that all combat missions in Iraq have ceased, violence surged to an all-time high. This suggests that as soon as we leave Iraq, Iran will fuel a civil war in the country.

Because Iran's done nothing prior to the American departure? Because the U.S. invasion & occupation brought unprecedented harmony between Sunnis & Shias? We'd love to see what else is in the Daily Caller's suggestion box.

For added yocks, General Patton's theme. The general does not want to hear from liberal thinkers, especially on matters military:

NAF is a liberal, partisan think tank attempting to influence the military’s Afghan War policy without having any military or national security expertise.

NAF’s founder, Ted Halstead, who also founded a liberal economic and environmental think tank called Redefining Progress, is an Ivy League academic and journalist with a liberal agenda. While he claims to be neither liberal nor conservative, rest assured that he is indeed a flip-flopping liberal who sides with those who are willing to fund his initiatives. Note that Halstead made a career writing for The Washington Post and The New York Times.

Halstead made Steve Coll NAF’s president. Coll is also an academic with no military or national security background. He is an investigative journalist with twenty plus years’ experience writing for The Washington Post and The New Yorker Magazine.

The entire NAF team, specifically its Afghan Study Group, is filled with academic and media elites who have no real background in anything related to terrorism, counterinsurgency, irregular warfare, intelligence, or national security as a whole. So why should our policy makers listen to them?

For whatever reasons policy makers gave an ear to the Project for a New American Century, where Ivy League jagoff & NYT/WaPo typist William Kristol (To name but one example of the species Chicken Hawk.) has shown what a success a well-informed & non-partisan approach to invasion & occupation can be.

Say what you will about the usual gang of idiots at Arianna's PuffHo, at least the typing there, w/ an exception or two, is at a higher level than the middle-school valedictorian resting on his laurels visible here. The stirringly leaden conclusion:

A disheartening agenda has taken hold in America. That agenda is led by liberal elites. They have surrounded themselves with wealthy heavy hitters who are willing to fund every idea they have. Many of these organizations should be looked at cautiously as they are hindering America’s progress as a free, secure, capitalist nation.

And Arianna's troops have some vauge conception of the outer world. Does Patton think no one not on his side will notice the sheer absurdity of his assertions in the context of the very conflict he's suggesting the Iranians are somehow about to aggrieve? We suspect he's typing for beer.

We also suspect, & would like to suggest, that having people this fucking stupid, w/ the typing/thinking skills of middle-schoolers, is not what we want in "the U.S. Defense and Justice departments, and as a contractor within the Homeland Security and State departments," where Patton claims to have served. We're lucky these United Snakes aren't a smoking pile of rubble, if he's what we're depending on to preserve a free, secure, capitalist nation. Thanks for serving.

Typed almost as much as we quoted. Might as well reuse.