Operation No Name – Or Whatever Obama Does Is Wrong: The ISIS Edition

Conservative critics of President Obama wasted no time in complaining about what they said was his failure to respond to the humanitarian crisis in Iraq where thousands of refugees are trapped on a mountain by ISIS militants. Never mind that only a few days had transpired since learning of the impending tragedy, the armchair generals in Congress and on Fox News had fully assessed the situation and were ready to fly off the handle.

The Senate’s preeminent news video hog, John McCain, blasted the administration for taking “no discernible action.” GOP Rep. Chris Smith said that “The president’s indifference is both numbing and enabling.” His colleague Frank Wolf joined in saying that “The administration has done nothing.” It was a steady chorus of complaints from the Republican caucus. That is, until Obama took decisive action within a few hours of the GOP outcry. From that point on the wingnuts criticized the President for doing something.

Among the complaints by the perennial war hawks are that Obama screwed up by removing American troops from Iraq in 2011 (which was actually Bush’s timetable); that Obama failed to secure a “status of forces” agreement (which actually Bush failed to secure); that Obama didn’t immediately strike ISIS when it first began its campaign, and generally that Obama has been detached, distracted, and even hostile to American interests. In short, the right blames Obama for everything that can possibily go wrong. They blame him for the acts of terrorists (rather than, you know, the terrorists). They blame him for doing what the American people want (which is to keep American ground troops out of Iraq). They blame him for Al Qaeda, for ebola, and for ants at picnics.

And the latest crackpot criticism of Obama is that his Defense Department has not assigned a name to the mission currently in progress. Seriously. There is no name. IMPEACH!

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What could the President be thinking by failing to execute this critical function of his role as Commander-in-Chief? It is an insult to the soldiers risking their lives in defense of the American Dream that they don’t have a title to which they can refer. How can they be expected to fulfill their mission if they don’t know what to call it? If the President doesn’t correct this atrocious oversight expeditiously he will go down in history as a traitor to his nation.

There is another possibility that may have escaped the notice of the brilliant war strategists on the right. Perhaps Obama has named the mission “No Name.” This would be an ingenious tactic to confuse the enemy. They would never be able to respond to a ghostly maneuver that they couldn’t identify with a label. Operation No Name may be the shrewdest military gambit in modern times. And it may have been inspired by a uniquely patriotic piece of our cultural history:

I’ve Been Through The Desert On A Horse/Mission With No Name – by America!

It would nice if once – just once – Republicans and Fox News could find something positive in something President Obama does. Their unbroken record of outrage, whatever the issue, only marks them as tunnel-blind extremists who lack the ability to independently assess anything. And if nothing else it proves that their opinions are wholly unworthy of serious consideration.

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8 thoughts on “Operation No Name – Or Whatever Obama Does Is Wrong: The ISIS Edition

  1. Before obama America was an idyllic utopia where the ghost of saint Reagan smiled down and nothing evil ever happened save for all the shootings which were scientifically proven to 100% be cause by liberals. But now we live in a Kenyan Marxist atheist Muslim heck hole were president Barack Obama is simultaneously an weak namby pay by bowing appeaser and the next incarnation of hitler Mao ready to murder millions of conservatives.

    • AMEN!

      President Obama is a student of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War.

      “All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”
      ~Sun Tzu~

  2. Greetings from No Name, Colorado, where we are exceedingly proud that President Obama has named this military exercise after our lovely little community.

  3. This is nothing more than sheer stupidity.

  4. To any force of intellect and any agent of the work for a more perfect world, changing information would change what they think and what they say and what they do right along with it. What’s the word for when that mechanism isn’t present? They remove it just to make a point, as if their theories are immune to reality as it evolves. What kind of a world does that build? How does that move past the present moment, how does a set of theories wrap around a fluid and still hope to work? Is adaptation really a weakness, more, is it really defeat? How else can it be said? They resist survival, no interest in moving forward, only preserving what they perceive they built alone. They think the world needs to adapt to them and they think that’s a viable vision. Averse to inclusion, the bubble is too crowded, with even their own reflection reminding them of the threat of ‘out there’. It’s just crippling fear of pluralism put behind a mask of victim-hood of what was perfect and good and homogeneous. It’s just a form of simple naivete, a defense mechanism of ingenuousness in place of flexible reason. Make what I don’t want to understand ‘the enemy’, and then I can actually work against it and feel good doing it, and protect my little world from the dangerous imposition of empathy and understanding; limitations equals protection. Now I understand individualism.

  5. According to Fox everything GW Bush did was great and everything Obama has done has been horrible. This is only possible if you are a complete and total propaganda operation for one side. Fox should be sued for false advertising among other things. There isn’t enough evidence to support their claim of being a news organization of any kind!

    • A court decided that they could lie.

      In any case, Fox News Channel is part of the entertainment arm of Murdoch’s empire, so they aren’t a news organization.

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