Obama ended up revealing an astonishing level of ignorance about military

[Xavier_Onassis]

This country has not been protected by a ship for many, many years. Make work jobs in shipyards are a poor use of taxpayers' money. I use roads and bridges, I see no reason for expanding the Navy. And quibbling about the terms "ships"and "boats" is not astonishing ignorance.

This is just another load of ratbag right wing neocolonialist crap.

[Plane]

The President was dismissive in his answer, but taken literally , he makes it sound as if Carriers and Submarines are recent developments that replaced the Navys Horses and Bayonettes.

In what respect does one learn something about the Presidents knoledge of Naval units from this?

Has the president ever at all demonstrated sophisticated knoledge of military matters?

Say, does anyone recall the president presenting an award to a "corpseman"?

I really do not think he speaks often to military people , and when he does he probly needs a translator.

[Xavier_Onassis]

I would say that President Obama knows at least as much as Romney, and probably more.

Obama mispronouncing a word is about like you misspelling one. Not any big deal, even if it upsets Marines, who seem to think that they are at the center of the entire universe.

[Plane]

I would say that President Obama knows at least as much as Romney, and probably more.

Obama mispronouncing a word is about like you misspelling one. Not any big deal, even if it upsets Marines, who seem to think that they are at the center of the entire universe.

Yes my spelling adventures are a tell that I am not expert at phonetics , nor spelling rules that are not phonetic.

President Obama has never given any impression that he is expert in matters military, and some of his mistakes confirm that he spends little time in that study.

[Xavier_Onassis]

He has managed to keep us out of war, hasn't he?

Juniorbush mongered TWO wars and was clueless as to how to fight them.

Romney seems just as clueless.

[Plane]

He has managed to keep us out of war, hasn't he?

No.

[Xavier_Onassis]

He has started no new wars or invasions. he has reduced the number of troops involved in the wars that existed when he was elected.

[Plane]

He has started no new wars or invasions. he has reduced the number of troops involved in the wars that existed when he was elected.

I guess the presence of US Robots does not count as invading.

[Xavier_Onassis]

No, they do not.

I assume you mean drones.

We are not at war with any governments. American troops are not dying at the hands of any enemies as before. The suiciude rate among them is higher than the casualty rate.

Obama has done far better than Juniorbush at foreign policy. He has surely done better than McCain would have done.

[Plane]

No, they do not.

I assume you mean drones.

We are not at war with any governments. American troops are not dying at the hands of any enemies as before. The suiciude rate among them is higher than the casualty rate.

Obama has done far better than Juniorbush at foreign policy. He has surely done better than McCain would have done.

I think Drones count , and that the war that Obama is trying to ignore is rageing under the pressure cooker lid.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Every week or so, a drone takes out a couple of guys in Pakistan or Afghanistan. It is a drop in the bucket, there are more traffic fatalities involved in any US city. No Americans are killed or maimed,and we have to support no widows and orphans.

It hardly matters, because if Romney is elected, it will certainly not stop.

[Plane]

You are right , the foreign policy of Barrack Obama and Mitt Romney differ only in details.

[Xavier_Onassis]

I think Romney would be much more likely to go to war. He has surrounded himself with warmongering types like Eliot Abrams and John Bolton. He wants to project FEAR,and that does not work.

It would be ever so nice if the US could be as evenhanded in the Middle East as it is in South America, where we respect elections and favor equal rights. In the Middle East, we support democracy in Tunisia, Yemen and Egypt. In Libya we will use weapons to defeat oppression, but will not do so in Syria. We support oppression in Bahrein, because Saudi Arabia,another oppressive country, supports it.

That is why we are not assumed to be fair or impartial there. Because we are not.

[Plane]

I think Romney would be much more likely to go to war. He has surrounded himself with warmongering types like Eliot Abrams and John Bolton. He wants to project FEAR,and that does not work.

Oh?

[Xavier_Onassis]

That is what caused 911, dummy.

Fear means nothing to people with suicidal ambitions. You cannot scare suicidal maniacs away.