Posted on 12/03/2009 12:17:59 PM PST by jazminerose
Barack Obama staged another photo op Tuesday night when he delivered his Afghanistan speech to cadets at West Point for the purpose of screwing with their heads. Obama’s message was: I’m sending more troops to Afghanistan, but only for a few days. Deal with it.
As always, the Commander in Chief of the most powerful military in the world studiously avoided use of the word “victory” in expounding on our wartime objectives. Rumor has it that Camp Victory will soon be renamed “Camp of Successful Resolution”.
The president justified his dithering over whether to send the troops requested by his commander on the ground, General Stanley McChrystal with the alibi that new troops couldn’t get there until 2010 anyway.
This tortured logic indicates that the Harvard alum either doesn’t understand General McChyrstal’s plan; or Obama prefers to subvert America’s interests. While Obama’s surprisingly positive comments about America were welcomed, he doesn’t mean a word of it. Republicans are now being told they should rally round the president for his bold and decisive action in agreeing to send about half of the troops McChrystal requested.
Obama’s real diabolism was pledging to our enemies that though he was sending 30,000 more troops, he was far more resolute about getting them out of there as expeditiously as possible than he is in carrying out the mission.
This pandering to George Soros by replacing the Bush Doctrine with the Soros doctrine is politics of the most malignant kind:
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The real question is will the cadets get afforded trials in New York Federal District Court?
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