First, nothing O says has any relationship to the truth. It isn’t true, it isn’t untrue, it is completely unmoored from truth. Any relation to truth is tangential and accidental.
We are at war because they are at war with us. Like it or not, admit it or not, respond effectively or not, they have announced war and are busily pursuing it.
As for “boots on the ground” (I am so tired of that shopworn phrase), he says there will be none, just as he says there will be no war though we are already at war.
But there are already “boots on the ground” and there will be more before we are done. He will just not define them as “boots” or he will not define them as being “on the ground”. No one will call him on it. Not the press, not the GOP, no one. Still, they will be there and if we are successful, he’ll take credit. If we are not successful, he’ll blame Bush or claim it never happened. And again, no one will call him on it.
Well said, that’s 0bama’s MO not only on this crisis but others.