Brian4Liberty
08-06-2014, 11:01 AM
It seems that Fox News has promoted a relatively new face to their programming. A militarist named Pete Hegseth was featured today on Fox's "Outnumbered" show. While one host mildly presented the "US shouldn't Police the world" opinion, Hegseth was there to strongly promote militarism, nation building, policing the world, and the latest propaganda language, "mowing the grass". Apparently that means mowing down people in foreign lands. Perhaps it is an apt analogy for what these madmen want, considering that a lawn mower does not discriminate when it chops.
Following the utter collapse of the Iraqi military in the face of ISIS, who were trained for a decade and paid for with billions of US tax dollars, this new propagandist had the gall to claim that all we need to do is train and support foreign armies "better". It's ironic to the point of idiocy. In other words, we should continue going into debt, borrowing money from China and futilely attempting to nation build, even though it has failed miserably. This can only make sense from a follow the money (and power) angle. Just keep printing that money and stacking it on pallets. Someone will be more than happy to take deliver of those devalued US dollars.
Keep mowing the grass
By Pete Hegseth
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In short, we should fight to ensure America keeps “mowing the lawn.” As this administration willfully sits on the porch of history and sips a beer, the seeds of international radicalism are exploding. We don’t have time to wait for ideological pesticides or economic weed-control—we need to cut the grass now, before it engulfs the entire lawn. You get the analogy: radical Islamists are the grass, America is the lawn-mower, and we need to cut them down—to the shortest length possible.
A pair of Israeli policy thinkers recently described their nation’s approach to dealing with Hamas the same way—a “mowing the grass” strategy—that, while not a long term solution, is the best-bad way to deal with a “protracted intractable conflict.” America faces the same long-war from radical Islamists. Mowing the grass means the focus will not be on defeating dangerous actors—like the Islamic State, Al Qaeda, the Taliban (Afghanistan and Pakistan-type), Hezbollah, Al Nusra Front and others—but merely on degrading their ability to strike U.S. interests.
This pragmatic, if blunt, approach requires military assets America still has: power-projection platforms, small, regional footprints, intelligence networks, technological advantages, highly skilled operators, and a Congressional “authorization for use of military force against terrorists.”
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http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/08/04/foreign-policy-pragmatism-required-for-obamas-final-two-years-keep-mowing-grass/
Following the utter collapse of the Iraqi military in the face of ISIS, who were trained for a decade and paid for with billions of US tax dollars, this new propagandist had the gall to claim that all we need to do is train and support foreign armies "better". It's ironic to the point of idiocy. In other words, we should continue going into debt, borrowing money from China and futilely attempting to nation build, even though it has failed miserably. This can only make sense from a follow the money (and power) angle. Just keep printing that money and stacking it on pallets. Someone will be more than happy to take deliver of those devalued US dollars.
Keep mowing the grass
By Pete Hegseth
...
In short, we should fight to ensure America keeps “mowing the lawn.” As this administration willfully sits on the porch of history and sips a beer, the seeds of international radicalism are exploding. We don’t have time to wait for ideological pesticides or economic weed-control—we need to cut the grass now, before it engulfs the entire lawn. You get the analogy: radical Islamists are the grass, America is the lawn-mower, and we need to cut them down—to the shortest length possible.
A pair of Israeli policy thinkers recently described their nation’s approach to dealing with Hamas the same way—a “mowing the grass” strategy—that, while not a long term solution, is the best-bad way to deal with a “protracted intractable conflict.” America faces the same long-war from radical Islamists. Mowing the grass means the focus will not be on defeating dangerous actors—like the Islamic State, Al Qaeda, the Taliban (Afghanistan and Pakistan-type), Hezbollah, Al Nusra Front and others—but merely on degrading their ability to strike U.S. interests.
This pragmatic, if blunt, approach requires military assets America still has: power-projection platforms, small, regional footprints, intelligence networks, technological advantages, highly skilled operators, and a Congressional “authorization for use of military force against terrorists.”
...
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/08/04/foreign-policy-pragmatism-required-for-obamas-final-two-years-keep-mowing-grass/