Starting this week: another dumb war America can't win

"I don't oppose all wars.... What I am opposed to is a dumb war." So said then-state-senator Barack Hussein Obama in 2002. Presumably that's why the his government has now confirmed that it will pull out of Iraq at the end of this year, having spent nearly 800 billion dollars -- $800,000,000,000 -- and about 4500 American lives, and accomplished, errr, nothing except deposing a ruthless dictator and replacing him with, errr, next to nothing.

Meanwhile, another dumb war continues in Afghanistan. According to Arianna Huffington's book, Third World America, Obama's presumably much smarter surge in the summer of 2010 cost a mere $33,000,000,000. For what? Admiral Michael "Moon" Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that the goals of the surge included not just defeating the Taliban but "reducing corruption, making local government work and, eventually, providing jobs."

"Talk about mission creep!" says Ms Huffington. "Is that why we are still fighting a war there nine years later -- to provide jobs for the people of Kandahar? It's like a very bad joke!... The Obama administration is ramping up a multibillion-dollar program that will create a host of new jobs. The bad news is, you have to move to Kandahar to apply."

But wait (as Vince Offer would say), there's more! On Friday the Prez announced with pride a brand new military adventure: the deployment of 100 troops to Uganda [that's in central Africa, not far from the land of Obama's ancestors. Ed.] to hunt for Joseph Kony, infamous leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, a fanatical militia that has killed an estimated 30,000 people over the past two decades.

All the more reason for a huge new US base in Libya (geddit?). And very useful for robbing Africa of the rest of its raw materials while denying them to the rising super-power, China.

But it's no biggie. It's only 100 "advisers". Well, OK, they are going to be armed, but they won't shoot first...maybe. What they'll be doing is crashing through the jungle -- it really is a jungle out there! -- trying to catch Joey Kony, who has managed to evade capture for something like 20 years. Some say he has magical powers or ointments that make him invisible, sort of like a darker Scarlet Pimpernel.

Yes, only 100 American troops...this week. But just wait. Walt's opinion? Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb. Trust me, Hussein. This won't get you re-elected!