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Silly String Versus Silly Paper

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I’m not sure I can say this any better than Mary Katherine Ham:

While, on the homefront, politicians concentrate on finding new and innovative ways to lose in Iraq, our servicemen are coming up with new and innovative ways to win, despite them.

So while the Baker-Hamilton Old and Tired White Men Commission wrote (as PatriotPartner says) the most lengthy unconditional surrender document ever written, our troops continue to show the true American spirit of fighting a war and finding creative solutions to complex problems.

In an age of multimillion-dollar high-tech weapons systems, sometimes it’s the simplest ideas that can save lives. Which is why a New Jersey mother is organizing a drive to send cans of Silly String to Iraq.

American troops use the stuff to detect trip wires around bombs, as Marcelle Shriver learned from her son, a soldier in Iraq.

Before entering a building, troops squirt the plastic goo, which can shoot strands about 10 to 12 feet, across the room. If it falls to the ground, no trip wires. If it hangs in the air, they know they have a problem. The wires are otherwise nearly invisible.

Why don’t they shred the Iraq Surrender Group document and shove it in a can of Silly String so it can do its part to help win the war?

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Comments

  2. “…so it can do its part to help win the war?”

    Is that your 2003, 2004, 2005 or 2006 definition of “win”? Or perhaps you want to wait until 2007 so you can move the goalposts yet again.

  6. Sandra Day O’Conner must have more than her robes hanging between her legs if it’s the Baker-Hamilton Old and Tired White Men Commission. That, and Vernon Jordan must be in black face.

  7. Yet another member of Iraq’s Surrender Group.

    from Marine Times:

    There is little more the U.S. military can do to stabilize Iraq, the top U.S. ground commander there said Friday.

    Army Lt. Gen. Peter Chiarelli, commander of Multi-National Corps – Iraq, continues to work to help the Iraqis assume control of their country and is looking at ways to increase the number of U.S. trainers embedded with Iraqi forces. But beyond that, Chiarelli, echoing a recurring theme these days, said there is little else for the U.S. military to do to get Iraq standing on its own two feet.

    “I happen to believe we have done everything militarily that we possibly can,” Chiarelli told reporters by video teleconference.

    The U.S. must “get out of thinking” of the war in Iraq as solely a military conflict in which a viable solution is to add more forces to fight the insurgency that is still wracking large parts of the country.

    Chiarelli, nearing the end of a second 12-month tour in Iraq, said the focus must be on political reconciliation between the warring Sunnis and Shiites, as well as economic rehabilitation.

    He said every time he meets with local Iraqi leaders, he is struck by their desire to “put angry young men to work.”

    Asked at the end of his briefing if the U.S. is winning in Iraq, Chiarelli joked that he had hoped to avoid the question. He then said the U.S. is indeed winning “militarily,” but acknowledged the U.S. has been too slow to achieve its strategic objectives in Iraq.

    His comments echoed the remarks of other senior leaders recently. Incoming Defense Secretary Robert Gates said this week that the U.S. is not winning in Iraq, and Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, said the U.S. is “not winning, but not losing.”

    No doubt Bruce will soon start screaming that Army Lt. Gen. Peter Chiarelli is Noam Chomsky’s secret love child.

  8. So while the Baker-Hamilton Old and Tired White Men Commission

    Sandra Day O’Conner, a member of that commission might have something to say regarding this depiction.

    Of course, if Jeane Kirkpatrick had been on the commission, she would now be the subject of similar insults, instead of being lionized by GP below.

    Such is the fickle favor of fantatics.

  9. if Jeane Kirkpatrick had been on the commission, she would now be the subject of similar insults,

    Not likely because Jeanne Kirkpatrick would not have endorsed the addle-minded suggestion that we trust Iran and Syria to create stability and peace in the Middle East.

  10. The jig is up… betting here that the terrorists R & D department is feverishly developing a work-around for the Silly String bomb detection system.

    Why does this stuff end up in the press?

    When the troops come up with a good idea, they ought to keep it to themselves.

  11. Chiarelli, nearing the end of a second 12-month tour in Iraq, said the focus must be on political reconciliation between the warring Sunnis and Shiites, as well as economic rehabilitation.

    Last I saw, that was being done already. I can guarantee you that wasting time and energy with Iran & Syria sure as hell ain’t gonna get it.

  12. The answer to that question is simple:

    Nobody in the national ‘leadership’ establishment of our current governing party, and not enough in the current loyal opposition, personally knows any enlisted servicemember or junior officer actually threatened by, say, tripwires.

    If they did, The Pentagon would have provided body armor, vehicle armor and SillyString or whatever else the troops needed.

  14. Why not with Iraq?

    Uh. Perhaps because the situation has changed? You may have heard the expression, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”

    When we were dealing with Iran re: Afghanistan and Syria re: torturing prisoners (and Iraq re: Iran) that was true. Now it isn’t. They ARE the enemy.

    Next easy question, please.

  15. Keogh, in number 13 makes a good point. Iran DID help us in Afghanistan. And let us remember that Syria was with us (and Israel) during the first Gulf War.
    The world is not as black and white as some here might say. There are no guarantees but alliances do create possibilities. In view of the current situation with the Iraqis at each other’s throats, I say give it a shot.
    Also, as an old white man (of 53 and NOT tired) I found your description of the panel to be insulting. I was surprised to read it on this blog (I actually thought you were quoting someone like Gloria Steinem!)