Will the General Betray Us

Bill Clinton had more extramarital affairs than Barack Obama attended Intelligence Committee meetings.  But Clinton didn't resign his presidency; in fact, he fought to keep his job.  David Petraeus, on the other hand, had an extramarital affair with Paula Broadwell, a woman who wrote a book about him aptly titled All In, and he resigns his post as Director of the CIA.  President Obama accepted his resignation just a mere few days before Petraeus is scheduled to testify about the mishandling of Benghazi, which resulted in the unnecessary death of American Ambassador Chris Stevens and 3 other Americans at the hands of Islamic terrorists.  Coincidence?  I don't think so.

All Bomber Jacket, No Bombs

To become Director of the CIA one must be vetted so extensively that the individual up for the post will reveal everything about himself, or have it revealed in the process.  By the time the vetting process is over, they will know everything about you--your hobbies, your childhood friends, their friends, how often your dog goes to pee, and where it does this, for example.  So to say that they just found out about this affair only three days after the election, and just a few days before testimony on Benghazi is scheduled to be heard, makes as much sense as Tom Cruise discussing his feelings about Scientology.  

But you can't blame the government.  After all, if the nation as a whole turned out and most people ended up voting for Obama, then they're gullible enough to believe anything they are told to believe just as long as it's being spun to them by the mainstream media or the Daily Show.

My wife told me this morning that she is finally getting over the election results.  She admits that she has been feeling a strong sense of gloom and doom, and I reassured her that she just has a case of them Obama blues.  We both laughed for a few seconds, then became quiet again.  It's serious what has happened, and I'm not sure what the long-term effects are going to be during this lame duck term of his.  I love America but it's in a tailspin.  Canada doesn't even want to do business with us like before because it's wiser for them to work with countries like India and China where they can get more for their products.

Yet I believe that we still will come back after the 'anointed one' is finished socializing us.  We are a strong nation with good people and maybe when he's gone off to that golf course somewhere in Illinois, we can stop hating each other on opposite sides of the aisle.  It has never been this bad in America where liberals and conservatives actually hate each other.  That's what Obama meant by 'revenge.'  How apt and how low this guy who finds himself as president is as his followers gloat from what will become a pyrrhic victory when his policies affect us all.

I find this week so very sad, but I think we have a chance to turn it around.

My latest novel, Jihad Joe, is about Islamic terrorism and suspense.  In it I challenge the precepts of the religion through my protagonist, Zed Nill, a journalist, captured by terrorists and who is destined to be killed if the American President refuses to release three Gitmo prisoners.  Of course, American policy demands we never give in to terrorists, and for Zed, the clock is ticking.

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