None Of The Above

Mr. Obama has rejected all the current options for Afghanistan.  While this may appear thoughtful to some and weak to others, I intend to stick with my original thoughts on the matter.

Mr. Obama has surrounded himself with elitist, peaceniks who look at General McChrystal’s request for support as if it were an alien being.   He might as well have asked them to produce an agenda for a small central government that emphasizes personal responsibility and states’ rights as request a troop surge.   They have no idea how to respond which is why it takes them days or even weeks to come up with something they can put in print or in front of a camera without looking completely clueless. 

 

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Now to give credit where it might be due, the President may have rejected any new proposals out of a growing sense that the people around him are not seeing all the dimensions to the conflict.  But failing to embrace his own commitment (campaign promises)  the initial resolve he claimed once elected (the one from March he lifted from bush and sold as his), and then ignoring the expert he appointed (General Mc Chrystal), all poke holes in whatever is even worthy of credit.

 

One thing we can't avoid; delay has consequences.  That's someting he can't blame on the previous administration.

 

 

Comments

[Chaz Proulx]

Steve

Your sense of History is amazingly distorted. Bush didn't delay in Afghanistan?

YES HE DID. When he went of on that Iraq adventure a lot of sane people, both military and non predicted that once we took our eye off of Afghanistan the people who actually attacked us would be able to regroup.

That's a delay of Seven years.

Get real.