“Leaks Add to Pressure on White House Over Strategy.” There is no strategy. What do you mean, adds pressure on strategy?

There’s this big hoop-de-do with this WikiLeaks thing, this antiwar website that has been gathering and leaking confidential, top-secret documents from the Department of Defense. Can I just ask the question, how is it possible – just consider this for a minute, for a moment. WikiLeaks is able to get its hands on 90,000 – 90,000 – top-secret documents from the war in Afghanistan, covering the time period of 2004 to 2009? 90,000? Who was actually taking the time to fight a war and generate the 90,000 documents necessary to become top-secret? 90,000? That’s the first thing that strikes me. Good Lord, how many other documents are there that we don’t know about that are top secret? 90,000? I mean, that is just – good grief.

And you wonder why these exercises in nation-building are now coming down, or now have the potential to crash down as they should never have been entered into. Maybe that is because there’s a lot less time spent figuring out how to actually fight a war, win it, and get the hell out, and a lot more time spent trying to figure out how to occupy forever and how to build a nation that is acceptable to the people that think we ought to be over there building said nation.

Now, this is an interesting sidebar on this. Congressman Ron Paul has posted this today on the same subject, “On the Bloated Intelligence Bureaucracy.” And he notes this. “Recently the Washington Post ran an extensive report by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin on the bloated intelligence community. They found that an estimated 854,000 people hold top-secret security clearances.”

854,000 have top-secret security clearances? “Oh, but don’t worry. We need to spend more on national defense, Mr. Church. We need eight million with top-secret security clearances. Then we’ll really have a handle on this national security, national defense.” Just imagine. If you’ve seen all the wondrous things that we’ve done with 854,000 folks holding top-secret clearances, just imagine what we can do if you multiply that times 10. Just imagine the Fort Hood bombers that we can ignore and not stop before they start blasting up cafeterias full of innocent people. Just imagine the Time Square bombs that we cannot see unless they are erroneously constructed before they are erroneously detonated, or not detonated. Just imagine all the things that cannot be done if you just multiply the 854,000 times 10. Congressman Paul has done a little math here.

“They found that an estimated 854,000 people hold top-secret security clearances. Just what are all these people up to?” asks Ron Paul. “By my calculation, this is about 11,000 intelligence workers per al Qaeda member in Afghanistan.” Can’t we just have one? Can’t we just send Matt Damon over there, “The Bourne Identity”? You only need one good Matt Damon to do all of this. Matt Damon. Right? Have you seen “The Bourne Identity” movies and “The Bourne Supremacy” and all this stuff? What we need is a couple of good Jason Bournes. You don’t need 11,000 top-secret operatives per al Qaeda member. “Oh we have to catalog these guys.” What exactly are these people doing? It’s a good question to ask, don’t you think?

Let’s see here. “This also begs the question, if close to one million people are authorized to know top secrets, how closely guarded are these secrets? They also found that since the September 11th attacks, some 17 million square feet of building space has been built or is being built to accommodate the 250 percent expansion of intelligence organizations. Intelligence work is now done by some 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private contracting companies in about 10,000 locations in the United States.

“The former director of National Intelligence, Admiral Dennis Blair, has asserted that U.S. intelligence now has the authority to target American citizens for assassination without charge or trial. How many of these resources are being devoted to spying on American citizens for nefarious reasons at home rather than targeting foreign enemies abroad?”

Hey, but we’re not spending nearly enough on defense. And we’re not spending nearly enough on intelligence. Just a measly 10,000 locations in the United States. We ought to have 150,000 locations. These things should be more populous than 7-Elevens. These things should be more populous than gas stations. These things, these locations where all this top-secret spying is going on should be more populous than anything that we have. These numbers are just startling here.

Listen to this. This is from today’s New York Slimes. Eric Schmitt and Helene Cooper writing on the same subject: “Leaks Add to Pressure on White House Over Strategy.” There is no strategy. What do you mean, adds pressure on strategy? “The White House sought to reassert control over the public debate on the Afghanistan war on Monday as political reaction to the disclosure of a six-year archive of classified military documents increased pressure on President Obama to defend his war strategy.”

He doesn’t have a war strategy. Remember, ladies and gents, that it was back in August of 2009, after waiting, what was it, 180-some days from the time that the President said [mimicking President Obama], “Now, I want to be clear. We’re going to have a new plan in Afghanistan because the one we have now sucks because I didn’t design it. And once I get finished up in here, we’re going to have a plan that’s going to kick all al Qaeda ass. And we’re going to have everything we need to win this war in Afghanistan.” And then Obama hired Gen. Stanley McChrystal to write the plan.

Now, remember, this blog was one of the first, if not the first, quite possibly the only outlet to post that writer Andy McCarthy of National Review Online, who would dare to air and dare to talk about what McCarthy had found in the McChrystal report. Because McChrystal had written a plan, a game plan, on how to build Obamastan in Afghanistan. It wasnt a plan to go in and destroy the enemy and get out, it was a plan to occupy their land, to transform them to the new america, to just be their personal police force.......

I say enough is enough, its time to bring our brave boys and girls home, its time for these people in every other country to start defending, taking care of themselves, and if they cant then so be it. It is not our job or responsibility to take care of everyone else in this world, not only can we no longer afford it, but this type of behavior or world view is def unconstitutional...