General Obama Is Loony

I know that the top-tier Democrat presidential candidates want to appear as they are tough and can fight the War Against Terror if, God forbid, one of them is elected president. But, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill) is just plain loony!
At this point, I will refer to Sen. Obama as General Obama because when he spoke yesterday at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, he called for the United States to send troops into tenuous ally Pakistan-with or without the approval of President Pervez Musharaf.
Now, Gen. Obama just two weeks ago said he would meet any rouge leader any place, any time, with no preconditions.
For one, it appears that Gen. Obama is schizophrenic. On the one hand, he will extend an olive branch to tyrants as Castro of Cuba, Chavez of Venezuela, Kim-jong il of North Korea, Assad of Syria, and my personal favorite, Ahmenawhackjob of Iran. But, to an ally that is siding with us at great risk and is now a low-end nuclear power, he would all but invade to "get the terrorists and bin-Laden".
Ralph Peters, one of the great military annalists of this age wrote in today's New York Post http://nypost.com why this is a bad idea. I will point out the highlights of Mr. Peter's epic piece.
1) Pakistan is a nuclear power on the brink of internal collapse. Do we really want to drive it over the edge and see loose nukes in the hands of a radicalized military faction-or terrorists?
Exactly! Mr. Peters hits the nail on the head. Gen. Obama would put United States soldiers not only in harm's way, but possibly hit with nuclear weapons. I guess Gen. Obama has not thought about that.
2) Even those tribesmen who don't support the Taliban or al-Queda are proud and xenophobic to extremes-they'd rally against us. And all of the senator's bloggers couldn't stop them.
Ouch! Going after bloggers-even loony tune ones?! Again, Mr. Peters is spot on. I guess in all the time that Gen. Obama has lived overseas, which he says himself, gives him more knowledge in international affairs, Gen. Obama doesn't see this forest through the trees. The central government in Pakistan has little control over the so-called tribal region along their border with Afghanistan.
3) President Musharaf's government would fall-probably overthrown by Islamic nationalists in the military and security services. Welcome to your Islamofascist nuclear power, senator.
Right on! That is what makes Gen. Obama's "plan" so asinine. Sure, end the action in Iraq just because you do not like the fact that President Bush has been right all along and that the mass of terrorists are fighting us their instead of here. Then send an already belgared armed force into an absolute hostile fight. If Gen. Obama thinks our troops are not fighting the terrorists in Iraq, what in the name of almighty God does he think our troops will be fighting in Pakistan? An army, terrorists and tribal chiefs. A trifecta as they say at the race track!
4) Even setting aside the nuke issue, what would President, Gen. Obama do when Pakistan, an Islamic nation of 170 million, broke into bits? Would we also occupy Karachi, Lahore and other mega cities, after they turned into urban jungles where the terrorist became the king of the beasts?
What say you, Gen. Obama? Sen. Obama thinks that we should have never gone into Iraq in the first place. Fine, but we are there now and we should fight for victory, not run with our tails between our legs. Maybe we should send more troops to Afghanistan, but not until the situation in Iraq is under control.
The bottom line is now is not the time for amateur hour. Maybe in another time and under different conditions, Sen. Obama would be a good choice for the Democrat party. But, not now. With beyond irrational international affairs rhetoric like this, Sen. Obama may have just lost some support from the left-fringe bloggers and the like that have supported him up to now. That would be good for America. The Democrats and America can not afford someone to lead as commander-in-chief such as Barack Obama.