Any Means To An End

A couple of anecdotes come to mind as I watch the news regarding the mess down on the Texas border. Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean someone isn’t out to get you, and where there’s smoke, there has to be some fire.

What this boils down to is that all of these Central American children didn’t just show up on the border by happenstance. Someone and something had to get them up here. My logical mind tells me that President Obama did not utter the command to some of his minions to effect the arrival, but my gut tells me this is what he wanted to happen and his minions knew it. Follow the money, or in this case the power. No matter how much the Republicans believe they can convince Hispanic voters to vote in their favor, there are no poles that indicate that will happen. It hasn’t happened in the past. The end result of the Reagan amnesty program ripped California from the Republican fold into the Democrat basket and it has not swayed since.

Don’t think for a minute that the Democrats and Obama fail to see the opportunity here. The children come in and the Obama Administration plasters the airwaves with tales (some of them true) about the horrific childhood they live and the apparent lack of opportunity available. Then comes the cry to reunite these children with their families and of course, the cry for amnesty quickly follows because after all, this is a crisis.

All of this is happening because President Obama cannot get what he wants legally. With the Affordable Care Act, he simply wiped his feet on the Constitution but here, he overwhelms the very system that he is by law, supposed to oversee. Once the illegal immigrant invaders are here, they come under the protection of the pieces of our law that he chooses to enforce.

 “America cannot wait forever for them (Congress) to act,” Obama said. He said he’s launching a new effort to “fix as much of our immigration system as I can, on my own, without Congress.” (Full article here)

And now this little excerpt from The Marshall Center (here):

Furthermore, the technology fielded by asymmetrically advantaged military forces has increasingly rendered defensive systems ineffective, while the “CNN effect” generated by images of civilian casualties has enhanced the effectiveness of shields in precluding attack, particularly given adoption of lawfare strategies by weaker parties. (129) 

And now this final quote from Marshall Georgy Zhukov of the former Soviet Army to General Eisenhower in 1945:

“If we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks exactly as it were not there.”

Of course what Zhukov failed to mention is that the attack would be lead by penal battalions to absorb the fatalities of the implanted mines. Human shields as it were.  Hamas currently uses human shields to safeguard their military targets from Israeli attack in Gaza. If the Israelis don’t attack, they safeguard their munitions and if Israel does attack they display the civilian casualties and it becomes a win-win for the terrorists. They will sacrifice anyone to win.

Obama is a terrible Commander-in-Chief, and his overall ineptness in foreign affairs will be the embarrassment of the United States for years to come. But when it comes to politically knowing what the goal is and letting nothing stop him from attaining it, Obama is a master. Of course some of these kids on the border may die or never reunite with their families but that is just the price for victory, another obstacle to overcome, another human shield to achieve Obama’s result.

As bad as these actions are, it can get worse. What if this type of behavior becomes the standard in politics? Do Democrats lie awake at night dreading the day when a Republican retakes the Oval Office? Do they secretly hope that the new Republican president will behave in a more moral manner than they did? Most Americans are optimistic with regard to the future. If thrown into a room full of horse manure up to their chin, they smile; there has to be a pony in there somewhere. It's time to locate that pony.