RSSWars and Rumors of War
Gene Lalor | September 21, 2009
The handwriting is all over White House walls: The U.S. will cut and run out of Afghanistan, and probably out of Iraq, if things get dicey there too.
In a repeat of our sorry experiences in Korea in the 50’s and in Viet Nam in the 70’s, President Obama will soon declare victory in Afghanistan and pack up all our cares and woes and retreat under fire from that chaotic nation, the same nation that was the breeding ground for the 9/11 maniacs.
Iraq may follow as Obama tries to placate the multitude of defeatists in the Democratic Party.
“Resources will not win this war, but under-resourcing could lose it,” [Lt. General Stanley] McChrystal wrote in a five-page Commander’s Summary. His 66-page report, sent to Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Aug. 30, is now under review by President Barack Obama.”
“Under-resourcing”=an inadequate number of boots on the ground.
He has asked for 60,000 additional troops to insure the defeat of the growing strength of the Taliban, a surge, if you will, the same tactic that Democrats scorned when Bush supplemented the boots in Iraq and which resulted in a tentative victory in that country.
“McChrystal warned that unless the U.S. and its allies gain the initiative and reverse the momentum of the militants within the next year the U.S. ‘risks an outcome where defeating the insurgency is no longer possible.’ ”
Obama’s response? ”I’m not interested in just being in Afghanistan for the sake of being in Afghanistan or saving face or, in some way, you know, sending a message that America is here for the duration:” http://bit.ly/4E8Wvi.
That says it all, folks. In the recent tradition of the new Democratic Party, Obama will deftly tuck America’s tail between its legs and scurry off in failure and ignominy.
In related news, another retreat, this time from close allies and supporters Poland and Czechoslovakia, Obama has cancelled plans for a missile defense/radar system in those countries.
Rather than negotiate a tit-for-tat deal with the Russians, the president unilaterally undercut two valuable friends in Eastern Europe. Interviewed on “Face the Nation,” he explained, “My task here was not to negotiate with the Russians. The Russians don’t make determinations about what our defense posture is.”
Oh, really, Mr. Obama?
So, “our defense posture” has no bearing on strategic moves in Moscow? Are you saying the Kremlin operates in a vacuum or that you don’t take orders from Mevedev/Putin? Either way, you happen to be wrong.
George Bush set in motion the plan “to deploy 10 missile interceptors in Poland and a related radar in the Czech Republic” which Obama scrapped in favor of some vague–Obama is into vague–alternative defense which would not get Russian noses out of joint.
As Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham put it, “This is going to be seen as a capitulation to the Russians, who had no real basis to object to what we were doing. And at the end of the day you empowered the Russians, you made Iran happy and you made the people in Eastern Europe wonder who we are as Americans.”
Damn right, Senator! With Obama as Commander in Chief, the Russians and Iranians are doing handstands over your abject capitulation to Russia’s complaints.
As for Eastern Europe, I beg to differ. The people and governments there have become fully aware in short order of what Obama’s America is, in a word, appeasers.
And, by the way, Barack, making a crack about Russian “paranoia” was really swift: http://bit.ly/22t7if. There’s nothing like insulting enemies to get them to be more agreeable.
Did Saul Alinsky teach you that deft trick?
Finally, in another action typical of a confirmed, naive pacifist and in anticipation of his upcoming U.N. speech, Obama has dumped a Pentagon idea for cutbacks in our nuclear arsenal as “too timid.”
Instead, our new Commander overruled the generals and admirals who have a combined hundreds of years experience in defense tactics and strategy by offering his own ideas: ”more far-reaching options consistent with his goal of eventually abolishing nuclear weapons altogether, according to European officials:” http://bit.ly/1lrje7
Nice, ambition, Mr. President, as if no other world leader wants a nuclear-free world. Just about everyone knows we and the Russkies have more than enough now to blow up Planet Earth a thousand times over.
What Obama forgets, assuming he ever understood, is that the decades old policy of MAD, Mutually Assured Destruction, is what has kept nuclear powers at bay for 60 years.
What Obama also forgets in all his tactical thinking is the wise counsel in the ancient Roman adage, Si vis pacem, para bellum. In case he’s not a Latin scholar, translated that means, “If you wish for peace, prepare for war.”
In 1939, Neville Chamberlain forgot that tried and true principle, meaning that signs of weakness invite war. His forgetfulness led to 60 million dead in World War Two.
For the sake of humanity, please don’t make the same mistake again. 
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