If this is true then just about all the worst fears we had about Obama as Commander in Chief are coming true.
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing instead for revisions to clarify how and when U.S. troops would turn over responsibility to the Afghan government, a senior administration official said Wednesday.
He has already had the advice of his entire military chain of command with a near unanimous call for for reinforcements to move to the strategy that won in Iraq. We have watched as he has heard from the deep wisdom of Joe Biden and Rahm Emanuel. We have seen him dither and quibble and show a completely ineffectual and uncommitted face to our enemies and the rest of the world. Now months after his hand-picked commander has told him the situation is bad and getting worse, our troops in the field fight and die without the support of their Commander in Chief. He sent 21,000 more brave men and women there and now they are flappin’ in the breeze. How can a squad leader look his men in the eyes and tell them to saddle up and head out on a patrol, perhaps to be the last to die for a cause their President no longer believes in.
You can’t set the circumstances for victory before you commit to trying to win one. You can’t set your strategy based on the hope that quality government will just spring up in the midst of chaos with no security.
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This is an outrage. On top of the Ft. Hood terrorist attack no less.
This man is no commander in chief — he’s a wimpy assed idiot who is going to get more americans killed. IMPEACH. We just can’t wait 3 more years.
More PC Bon Bon Obama is our enemy he is total monkey evil he hates Americans ( read white people ) Obama and his evil friends are all like Hitler and his friends and yes Obama is a terrorists Muslim inside the once great government.
WAY Too many will not say it like it is! think rope and tree become real Americans.
So the Incompetent-In-Chief dithers while our troops are on the ground fighting. Is anyone out there besides us noticing this? I am SOOO glad I did not rejoin the USAR in 1996, I would have been in the sandbox there several times by now and while I would welcome the opportunity to again serve the USA, I will not serve under an incompetent, idiotic, PC, derelict, hate-America regime.
The Brits are PO’d that Obama is blowing off this troop request. Their guys are getting killed too. Of course this was the logical outcome of the Bamster’s don’t shoot anywhere near civilians strategy that was implemented in this past spring. When the Taliban can use villages and mosques as bases without fear of US military action, it makes us look weak and allows them to recruit, train and regroup unmolested. Something that any historian with a brain will tell you, you don’t want to allow your enemy to do. When you are fighting an enemy that uses women and children as human shields, women and children die. You’re not responsible for their deaths, the people who use them as shields are. That needs to be the message given to every Imam and village elder in Afghanistan. You can either help us rid this country of the Taliban and Al Quaeda, get out of the way, or get caught in the crossfire. Give them a picture book with photos of Dresden, Tokyo and that picture from the South Pacific that showed a Japanese tank driver’s head on a pole after he had been fried alive in his tank with a flame thrower. Inform them that the kid gloves crap is over. We are tired and we want to go home, but since they’re still supporting people who attacked us in our country, we will have to continue wiping the face of Afghanistan clean of the menace. If we have to level every village that gives the Taliban and AQ aid and comfort, so be it. The choice is their’s.
Bon Bon obama is doing his job to kill Americans. obama is not a muslim wimpy or idiot he is a muslim bin laden loving muslim who was placed into power not by the vote but by our enemies. by the way obama has said many times before he is a muslim! IE Hates anyone who is a real American.