through his acolyte students, he has attacked one of
the heroes of the surge, Gen. Petraeus....... -- j

The word hellfire comes to mind..

YES!!

I'd like to see him try.

ummmmm ... "cannot" ... or "is not"? -- j

and yet "that" is turning in to "this" here in the u.s. --
we're being asked to be "politically correct" as the
Führer's subjects were asked -- or else. this must
be reversed;;; yes?! -- j

That is one of the more frightening things to be concocted by human hands and mind. Rotted and twisted mind, yet still, at one point human...

I like that fantasy...sigh....if only..

I’m sorry, Lucky. The radicals are back in power in Turkey and they are already clamping down on women’s rights. It’s a very precarious time in Turkey. It could go the way of the Iranian Revolution during the late-seventies.

j_IR1776wg Yes and add Turkey to that list. A nation that showed how Islam could co-exist with modernity such as equality for women, voting, property rights, respect for other religions and so on has over the past decade been taken over by the Islamists.

Being fed to the lions.

Well, nice rank as it is. I have a neighbor who retired with the same. Thank you for your service, sir.
And it's shameful that those reasons would be a factor in promotions. What a disservice to the military.

From your lips to the Senate floor!

as long as we quit tweaking and repeal obamacare!!! -- j

I fantasize all day of having the ability to just vaporize stupid people in public with a single touch. Maybe if I touch enough people they wont be enough of them around to vote next time? Try it. It might not solve the problem, but It might help make the two-and-half years go faster. ;)

our military oath is, first, to the nation and our constitution,
and secondly to the orders from above. this is being
translated to that of the German military,, quoted here:::
from 2 August 1934 - "I swear by God this sacred oath
that I shall render unconditional obedience to Adolf Hitler,
the Führer of the German Reich, supreme commander
of the armed forces, and that I shall at all times be prepared,
as a brave soldier, to give my life for this oath." -- [See
more at: http://batr.org/view/111402.html]

this is turning into pure fascism. -- j

this is no joke. I could never have made it to "full colonel"
because of my heritage-patriotic views. LC was it.
political begins at "O-6" or colonel. -- j

As long as they are clean elections. Which is looking more and more unlikely.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Finni...
It was also called "The Winter War" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War
Followed by the "Continuation war" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuatio...

Because, this to shall pass. He is only in office two and half more years. Our foundations are still strong, and we can fix the damage that has been done by tweaking the policies that are wrecking us, and hiring the right people for key positions to clean up the mess. Pink slips can work both ways. :)
Elections are our saving grace.

Obama might not be like Hitler in conquering other nations but has taken a page out of the Fuehrers playbook. He has his Brownshirts - the Moslem Brotherhood in the USA; then he has his Gestapo - Homeland Security, they probably have already have taken the Blood Oath. The Military has been gutted like Kaiser Wilhelm's military was. He will attempt to pacify the nation with his Joseph Gerbils- ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and Bloomberg. There is so many parallels it is sickening. I don't think the Nazi's in the US like Obama. Members of the Hell's Angel have already infiltrated our gov't. to steal the spoils when everything goes to Hell! Obama could be worried about a coup from the military but he is an outsider to go majority of the American people. But, they are afraid what Homeland Security-Gestopo could do to the the common citizen. Something like a Revolution/Civil War or a Secession of States has to occur to re-establish the Constitution.

The Russo-Finnish war was in 1908.

Completely disagree. The "Caliphate" blusters, but poses no threat to America, and we don't need to be in the Middle East.

I say pull out, and let all three factions of bad guys kill each other in droves.

I also say let's break our military commitments to Qatar (for arming Hamas) and to Turkey (both for anti-Israel actions such as the Gaza flotilla and for taking the Russian side in Russia's wars of aggression against Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine). Do it now, before we get dragged onto the wrong side of a war with Israel!

Directly out of Stalin's playbook. If the current regime remains in office, there is no doubt that certain officers will start disappearing, never to be heard from again.