Follow-up to 500 year war:

[CarbonDate]

Previously I posted regarding a briefing we received here at Andersen from the PACOM senior enlisted advisor wherein he mentioned that we were entering into a "500 year war". You can read that entry in my journal or at my blog http://carbondate.blogspot.com.

Admiral William J. Fallon, PACOM/CC, will be replacing Gen. John Abizaid as CENTCOM/CC.

CSM William T. Kinney, PACOM Senior Enlisted Advisor, answers directly to Admiral Fallon.

CSM Kinney told us we were going into a 500 year war. His boss is now going to be running that war.

Any questions?

[Dammit Ann]

1. are you kidding me?

and i just read your previous blog. so, not only are we setting a timeline on an ecological disaster, by lack of action, we are insuring a conflagration by insuring an unending war? lovely.

[Kutjara]

2. Considering neither our government nor our military seem capable...

...of knowing what's going to happen six months into the future, I take pronouncements of a "500 year war" with a large pinch of salt.

Sounds like just another military salesman hawking his wares.

[CJCRANE]

3. Scary.

This seems to be the way * will keep his war going - by appointing religious/ideological nutters.

[CJCRANE]

4. Does that make it half as good as the "1000 Year Reich"?

or twice as effficient? I can't figure it out.

[Dammit Ann]

5. brilliant!

haaaa haa haa haha! best giggle of the mornin'! thanks!

[Warren DeMontague]

6. 500 year war means 500 year gravy train.

500 years of job security. 500 years of no-bid contracts with minimal auditing. 500 years of a public so piss-in-their-pants scared they'll pay for all kinds of protection schemes.

What's wrong with that? If you're livelihood depends on the military industrial complex, this is like an endless stream of dancin' dollar bills waltzing up to your door, for eternity.

[democrank]

7. A 500 year war?

Since CSM Kinney says Democrats are "quitters" the slots will have to be filled by Republicans. Kinney may want to contact some of the architects and supporters of the Iraq War. He could start with the fellows at PNAC, then contact far-right radio show hosts and members of Congress. I`m sure they`d all agree to sign up to help fight this 500-year war.

I could try to help CSM Kinney and call up this young Iraq War Vet I know, but there are two problems with him....he`s a Democrat and he lost both his hands in Iraq.

[ktlyon]

8. or is it just continuation of the 4000 + years of war this planet has

seen
Men have been fighting since there was a banana or a dead piece of meat or a women. It should be our goal to become civilized and end it. <(not to be sexist) In fact it has been women mostly that have done what civilizing humanity has achieved. We would be well served to put women in charge. Go Nancy go!>

[GreenZoneLT]

9. Senior enlisted advisors are the biggest dumbasses

No disrespect to the enlisted community; I was enlisted for 16 years before I got commissioned, but if there's a bigger bunch of self-important lunkheads than the Command Sergeant Majors in the Army and Air Force, I haven't run into them. As far as I can tell, they're world-class ass-kissers who spend 99 percent of their time thinking about whether soldiers are wearing their uniforms correctly in a war zone.

Fallon won't be making Middle East policy, either. Unfortunately, Our Special Commander In Chief will be.

I do think the ever-growing infiltration of the Air Force by fundagelicals is a little scary. Those guys are just thrilled down to their taints at the thought of participating in a holy war. Too bad we can't move the Academy from Colorado Springs; that's nutball central.