Hey! Obama, Talking Tough isn't Talking Smart

Just where is Senator Barrack Obama's brain in relation to his mouth? The Geek would really like to know.

If the reports decorating the mainstream media today are correct and if the Obama campaign's website is to be believed, the Senator's brain is either off on an excursion or in sore need of repairs.

The Geek thinks that the Senator ought to get a grip on a few salient realities.

Defeating Islamist terrorists and their sponsors or facilitators will take more than leaving Iraq in a worse state of peace. Winning against Islamists and their supporters will take more than throwing fifty gigabucks into the foreign aid till. It will take more than public diplomacy even if led by the president.

Defeating al-Qaeda, Taliban and the like will take more, a lot more, than an additional two brigades on the ground in Afghanistan. Seven thousand more pairs of boots on the ground would be a nice addition--but that's not enough to bring any meaningful sort of victory.

The Senator from Illinois' final "policy" feature is enough in and of itself to assure that the war against al-Qaeda, Taliban and the like will be lost. That's right, lost. Lost by the US and the other civilized countries.

And, what was Obama's brainy idea for self-inflicted defeat?

The threat that the US would violate Pakistan's sovereignty and territorial integrity if we received "actionable intelligence" regarding a high ranking terrorist and the Pakistanis didn't take appropriate action on their own.

Wow!

It was bad enough when the nice, well intended young man from Illinois stated that his administration would make Pakistan's foreign aid contingent upon demonstrated results in ejecting nasty al-Qaeda and Taliban types from its soil.

What game is Obama playing? Top-A-Threat? If the foreign aid threat ain't enough, well, Paks, how do you like my invasion threat?

The real name of the game is How To Lose the War on Terrorism.

Get a grip on this, Senator. Pakistan is already very unstable. The more or less secular military regime is in a world of hurt with the large and growing Islamist portion of its population. The military and the Interservices Intelligence agency are already filled with Islamists. The border territories, which are tribal, remote, and barely governed by the central regime, are filled with Islamists as well as a prickly sense of independence.

Now, Senator, take a very, very firm hold on this. Pakistan possesses a small but workable nuclear arsenal. Let the Geek spell it out for you slowly, in baby words: The Paks have the bomb. The A-bomb.

They don't have many. Their bombs are kind of crude by our technologically sophisticated standards. But they work. We know they work. After all, they were tested a few years ago.

The question for the Senator is this: How many bombs do the Islamists need to give a whale of a lot of people a very bad hair day?

Ten?

Five?

Perhaps one is enough.

Senator Obama, before you run off at the mouth trying to convince people that you are not as "naive" as Senator Clinton has alleged or too soft to be a firm commander-in-chief, why don't you try wrapping your brain around a few necessary, basic facts about Islamists, the appeal of their ideology, the limits of public diplomacy, the results of a bug out from Iraq and, most importantly, just why the hell it is not in US interests to destabilize further the Pakistani government.

The facts are out there. They are as easy to find as the facts about Iraq were back before our invasion. Find them now, understand them now and, you know what?

You won't ever have to do a Dick Cheney imitation on the Larry King Live show and admit that you were wrong about a world class blunder.