How many Presidents, since 1900, have been able to supress the urge stroke the Military Penis?

[cherokeeprogressive]

Give a young man a car with 300 or 400 horsepower and what does he want to do? Stand on the gas pedal and smoke the tires...

Give a young man a gun, and what does he want to do? Point it at something and pull the trigger.

It's going to be interesting to see what goes on tomorrow on the political porn shows in the am. Guess what? I won't be watching. I know the plot already. Put it in... strong thrusts... pull it out... stroke it... money shot. BORING. There WILL be an interesting mix tomorrow that isn't seen normally though... Democrats calling for missiles and bombs, and republicans resisting the urge to stick the military dick into any hole it will fit into.

Yeah, I still won't be watching. I've seen this movie. When the lights go down, it'll start with a trailer for Tuesday's Presidential Performance... "We Gotta, for the Children". Trust me, it's a remake. Innocent civilians die, and in the end someone justifies it by saying we fought them there so we didn't have to fight them here.

I hear He's going to be on TV making His case for bombing Syrian neighborhoods on Tuesday... You'll be watching? Not me. I think there's a Dodger game on that day.

Seriously though... here's the deal: How many days have passed since 8/21? How much of al-Assad's precious military treasure is now in civilian neighborhoods? Will your government tell you BEFORE they start sending missiles and bombs after it? NOPE. The WORLD will tell you AFTER the COLLATERAL DAMAGE takes place, and the US GOVERNMENT will make excuses as to why it happened. You haven't seen this movie?

For those of you who support sending bombs and missiles into Syrian neighborhoods in an "effort to degrade" al-Assad's ability to kill people, I volunteer to ferry you, your kids, your nieces and nephews, your grandkids, and your neighbors to the recruiters and MEPPS stations. Hell, I'll even buy them lunch.

Me? I served already.

[LuvNewcastle]

1. Jury results:

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REALLY really tired of the double standard when referring to male vs. female genitalia. It is inflammatory to compare use of the military by a president to stroking his own sex organ. Very sexist and gross. WAY over the top.

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[cherokeeprogressive]

2. Okay... Inserting a missile into the Military Vagina?

Sound better?

I don't get it. Support the Second Amendment, and get accused of having a little dick. What do you think the alerter thinks about the Second Amendment?

What. The. Fuck?

[LuvNewcastle]

4. I don't know; it's not like the OP is risque in any way.

I think it's funny and creative, not even close to offensive.

[cherokeeprogressive]

6. Someone saw it as "Anti-Obama".

I get that every day.

[grahamhgreen]

11. Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: Ridiculous alert. LOL

[LuvNewcastle]

3. Too many Presidents look at the military the way

Rod Blagojevich sees a Senate seat. The temptation to use it is just too great for them. I suppose the only way we can stop it is to shrink the military to a regular defensive force, which is what it should be anyway.

[cherokeeprogressive]

5. I agree.

I wonder how much money is spent so that a member of the Armed Forces stationed in FuckingWhereverIstan can afford a pack of Marlboro cigarettes or a loaf of WonderBread or a pack of Wrigley's DoubleMint Gum?

Bring them ALL home. STOP spending US Dollars to prop up overseas economies. Let them ALL fend for themselves. The entire US military can be housed and trained within our own borders. Imagine how many houses, cars, refrigerators, and whatnot they could add to our economy...

[LuvNewcastle]

7. If we kept them all at home, we wouldn't need nearly

as many people in the service, which means the economy would have to find a way to employ all those people at a living wage, like other countries do. That might require a healthy dose of socialism, and they won't have that,

[cherokeeprogressive]

8. Zactly.

[BillyRibs]

9. Your right!

This is a forgone conclusion.

"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials

[xfundy]

10. Nobody can resist stroking it!

At least playing with it and fantasizing about where it might go is far less dangerous than pointing and aiming it and shooting it at anything rather than just a paper towel or kleenex. At least that can be disposed of easily.

But the analogy is apt. Don't squirt unless ye can take being squirted upon in return. Amen.

[grahamhgreen]

12. Carter

[LuvNewcastle]

13. Carter was the first President I thought of when I read the OP.

I was a kid when he was Pres., but I remember him sending out the ill-fated mission to get the hostages out of Iran, which is totally understandable, but I couldn't think of anything he did that was an act of aggression. He's definitely the only one since FDR who never sent any troops out for a combat role, but my knowledge about 1900-1933 Presidents is hazy at best.

[Democracyinkind]

14. Operation Cyclone. The root of many evils, signed by Carter.

Plus - the Carter doctrine.

I don't think any President since at least Hoover deserves a "no stroke" award.

[LuvNewcastle]

16. I didn't remember that, so I had to look it up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone

By mid-1979, the United States had started a covert program to finance the mujahideen,[5] whose aim was later described by Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, as to "induce a Soviet military intervention."[6][7] According to Eric Alterman, writing in The Nation, Cyrus Vance's close aide Marshall Shulman "insists that the State Department worked hard to dissuade the Soviets from invading and would never have undertaken a program to encourage it, though he says he was unaware of the covert program at the time. Indeed, Vance hardly seems to be represented at all in Gates's recounting".[8]

In September 1979, Khalqist President Nur Muhammad Taraki was assassinated in a coup within the PDPA orchestrated by fellow Khalq member Hafizullah Amin, who assumed the presidency. Distrusted by the Soviets, Amin was assassinated by Soviet special forces in December 1979. A Soviet-organized government, led by Parcham's Babrak Karmal but inclusive of both factions, filled the vacuum. Soviet troops were deployed to stabilize Afghanistan under Karmal in more substantial numbers, although the Soviet government did not expect to do most of the fighting in Afghanistan. As a result, however, the Soviets were now directly involved in what had been a domestic war in Afghanistan.[9]

At the time some believed the Soviets were attempting to expand their borders southward in order to gain a foothold in the Middle East. The Soviet Union had long lacked a warm water port, and their movement south seemed to position them for further expansion toward Pakistan in the East, and Iran to the West. American politicians, Republicans and Democrats alike, feared the Soviets were positioning themselves for a takeover of Middle Eastern oil. Others believed that the Soviet Union was afraid Iran's Islamic Revolution and Afghanistan's Islamization would spread to the millions of Muslims in the USSR.

After the invasion, President Jimmy Carter announced what became known as the Carter Doctrine: that the U.S. would not allow any other outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf. He terminated the Soviet Wheat Deal in January 1980, which was intended to establish trade with USSR and lessen Cold War tensions. The grain exports had been beneficial to people employed in agriculture, and the Carter embargo marked the beginning of hardship for American farmers. That same year, Carter also made two of the most unpopular decisions of his entire Presidency: prohibiting American athletes from participating in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, and reinstating registration for the draft for young males. Following the Soviet invasion, the United States supported diplomatic efforts to achieve a Soviet withdrawal. In addition, generous U.S. contributions to the refugee program in Pakistan played a major part in efforts to assist Afghan refugees.

[JI7]

15. didn't he arm the Islamic Fundies fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan ?

[LuvNewcastle]

17. Yes, that was Operation Cyclone that Democracyinkind mentioned

in post #14. I thought that was started during Reagan's terms, but Carter started it in 1979.