Posted on 09/27/2009 6:05:28 AM PDT by Saije
What’s the big rush? That seems to be Obama’s modus operandi on any foreign-policy challenge. Iran has secret (well, not secret, since the president knew about it) nuclear facilities, but we can talk about it. December’s a good deadline. But really, what’s a “deadline” mean? September’s deadline came and went, right?
Likewise on Afghanistan: there is no time frame for even making a decision, according to Bob Woodward:
"President Obama has not set a deadline for determining a new strategy or for committing more troops to the war in Afghanistan, despite an urgent request from his top commander, his national security adviser said Saturday."
Military guru Joe Biden says one thing, Gen. Stanley McChrystal says another. Maybe they can get the general to change his mind, suggests National Security Advisor James Jones. Who knows? They’ll talk. And in some bizarre one-upmanship, Jones pronounces:
Jones said the challenges Obama faces in the Afghan war are more “complex” and “bigger than the surge” decision...Bush faced in Iraq three years ago.
In early 2007, Bush ordered the deployment of 30,000 additional troops to Iraq as a “surge” to assist in the counterinsurgency strategy of protecting Iraqis. The surge is now regarded as one of several factors that helped stabilize Iraq and reduce violence there.
“This is bigger than the surge,” Jones said. “This is more complex. There are more moving parts.”
That would be the surge Gen. David Petraeus masterminded and then Sens. Biden and Obama opposed. But it’s small potatoes. The big thinkers are thinking big thoughts in the Obama administration.
It’s an odd mix of arrogance and irresponsibility. What could be more important than a major war? And yet they dither, tell the military to wait, have some more meetings, and roll out Biden to pontificate...
(Excerpt) Read more at commentarymagazine.com ...
Zer0 will make a decision on the Afghan front when he (or, more likely, his handlers) figure out how to further control our lives and freedom AND make a buck in the process, to boot.
It’s not interesting. It’s criminal.
“It’s interesting how everything Obama wants to do on the domestic front is a crisis and urgent and can’t wait another minute but the war? Not so much.”
Exactly
Our most valuable asset of all is our troops, our sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends who are out there willing to sacrifice the ultimate, putting thier lives on the line for us and these so called educated idiot socialist scumbags and thier tin pot dictator zero could care less. Don’t forget who’s on our side when the sh## hits the fan..... our brave men and women of the United States military! We will eventually push these parasites back into the cesspool from whence they came!
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