The
overwhelming impression of Paul Ryan that I came away with last night is that
Ryan would be right at home selling used cars. Romney, although not the “car guy” Ryan thinks
he is, would be just as comfortable running the front of the lot and letting
Ryan handle the dark side of the enterprise.
Romney
effectively dodged the draft for VietNam by becoming a missionary. Not one of the people who travel, unwanted
and un-needed, to convince tribal societies that they can prevent crop
failures, droughts, and diseases prevalent since the oceans last covered their
land, if they just sing loudly enough to Jesus.
There’s still too much personal risk in that, malaria, Chaga’s disease,
filarial worm infestation. Romney spread
the word according to Joseph Smith in the bistros of Paris. It is a filthy job but someone has to pay the
French back for handing VietNam over to us.
Unfortunately, Romney found his way home when the draft was ended.
Now he’s on a
retro mission, bringing peace and expanded arms sales to Syria. There’s bound to be an American willing to
sell the Syrians all the weapons that Russia, China, and Iran can’t or won’t
provide. Romney has yet to understand
that it would be better to let the Russians sell their monkey copies to Syria than
to have American troops - Romney-Ryan
will most certainly get us into a ground war in Syria in order to start one with
Iran – facing off against our own top of the line weapons systems.
The Pentagon
has reason to fear Ryan. It stunned me
last night when he claimed it would be preferable to send more American troops
into dangerous locations than to send in the Afghan troops we’ve been training
for just that purpose. There seems to be
a major disconnection between Ryan’s self-serving, teavangelist\ Crusader
mentality and the brutal reality of combat.
Throwing more young Americans into the meat grinder will never stabilize
Afghanistan or overturn the local power of the Taliban. Ryan has never served in uniform and has no
awareness of military history or tactics.
If it can’t be bought or sold at a profit, he doesn’t see it.
There was a
comment last night that Obama intended to reduce the size of our navy to WWI
size. Another disconnect. A single carrier battle group currently
carries more destructive capability than our entire WWI fleet. It is far more about capability and logistics
than numbers on an assembly line. We
have the strongest navy in the modern world.
We can project power almost anywhere we like. We don’t need the huge fleet we had during
the Cold War.
Romney-Ryan and
the teavangelists seem to think that we can and should use our military to
force our brand of government and religion on all the world’s nations. The 19th century missionaries were
adept at creating a crisis involving the need to rescue American citizens from
heathen lands and simultaneously annex or colonize their territory. With Romney-Ryan in power, the potential for
such perfidy looms large. There is a
reason Biden stressed that he had no desire to inflict his faith on
others. Romney-Ryan has that desire and
will not hesitate to use it.
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