"Why Do So Many Westerners Refuse to “Get” That We Are At War?" That's the title of a piece by Phyllis Chesler. One quote:
Westerners are in denial. And, the deniers are even more afraid of Jihad and terrorism than those of us who are crying out against it. Thus, like battered women, they seek to appease the violent offender; they also engage in self-blame in the misguided belief that if they do not “offend” their batterer that he will not batter them.
The raw cheese protest. Reason
I'm conservative, but don't tell anybody. Am. Thinker
Babies don't do better in countries with socialized medicine. Pajamas
John Voight: We were used and manipulated during Vietnam
The Utopia of Relativism. Dr. Bob
Bill Clinton says he isn't a racist.
Inside Obama's OODA Loop, via Insty, at Classical, a quote:
McCain, the fighter pilot, has gotten inside Obama's OODA loop. Something the Navy teaches fighter pilots to do.
The OODA Loop, often called Boyd's Cycle, is a creation of Col. John Boyd, USAF (Ret.). Col. Boyd was a student of tactical operations and observed a similarity in many battles and campaigns. He noted that in many of the engagements, one side presented the other with a series of unexpected and threatening situations with which they had not been able to keep pace. The slower side was eventually defeated. What Col. Boyd observed was the fact that conflicts are time competitive.
Elections are nothing if they are not time competitive. Evidently the "freezing of the opponent" that Alinsky recommends has not worked on McCain. He was not frozen. Once that happened McCain was operating inside Obama's decision loop.
Evidently Boyd is beating Alinsky. Or to put it another way. The fighter pilot is beating the community organizer. As a Navy man myself, I'm not surprised.
Related: Obama is a jet crash
Image: I guess we were down for quite a while yesterday, and nobody let our Blogmeister know. And I can assume that he was sailing, and had no clue.
