RSSAs Obama Dithers, Our Military Withers
Gene Lalor | October 7, 2009
With no military experience, no international relations experience, no executive experience, it’s no wonder our naive president is dithering over yet another campaign pledge.
It would be comical if not for the fact that particular reneging is proving deadly to our troops.
It’s not in the same category as the president’s forestalling gay demands that he fulfill his promise to end Clinton’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy for the military; Obama knows his queer constituency will hang as tough as they can hang tough until he gets around to revamping that policy.
It’s not in the same category as reneging on his pledge to close GITMO in a year, either; aside from obamaniacs, everyone knew that was impossible and no state and no other country will agree to house any appreciable number of GITMO’s reprobates.
On the other hand, Obama’s stalling on General Stanley McChrystal’s 
request to provide him with more boots on the ground in Afghanistan to enable him and our forces there to do their jobs amounts to nothing more or less than an execution warrant for our troops.
Obama’s self-declared “war of necessity” as opposed to the Iraqi “war of choice,” is costing America dozens of valiant solders with many more casualties to come as the president weighs his options and consults his advisors.
One such military advisor is bumbling Joe Biden, his VP, the man who has never voiced a thought that wasn’t inane, who would cut and run full speed in retreat and screw the consequences.
Precisely who Obama’s other advisors are is unclear. Could one be Bill Ayers? That old buddy and unrepentent domestic terrorist hasn’t yet graced Obama’s White House, at least through the front door.
Or maybe his former spiritual advisor, Rev. Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright is unavailable for comment and Obama needs his guidance?
To be generous, perhaps the president is wary of introducing more troops in fear that it will be called a “surge.” That tactic was employed by Bush to help accomplish the Iraq mission and was promptly condemned by Sen. Harry Reid before it was even implemented.
It infuriated the Left with prospects of the “V-word,” as in victory. That same Left would get their knickers in a wad again if it looks like we could win the Afghan war as well.
McChrystal isn’t playing games with Afghanistan. He knows that every day Obama dithers on sending more troops means more and more troops will die: “Eight American soldiers were killed last Saturday when tribal militia stormed two combat outposts in eastern Afghanistan, the worst U.S. loss in more than a year,” http://bit.ly/10NKCh.
Defense Secretary Gates is fully on board with the idea of more troops but will a president whose only combat experience was serving as a community organizer on the mean streets of Chicago listen to Gates or to his generals?
Fully cognizant of Gen. MacArthur’s remonstrance that, “There is no substitute for victory,” McChrystal has made no bones as to the necessity of thousands more boots to combat the Taliban and al-Qaeda and to pacify that dismal country which has a history of military success, against the Brits and the Red Army of the U.S.S.R.
One prospect, should Obama continue his delaying tactics and our men and women continue to die unnecessarily in Afghanistan, is that McChrystal will simply pack it in, submit a respectful resignation to his commander in chief, and refuse anymore to be party to this incipient debacle in which a president would rather delay, indefinitely, sending more support.
Charles Krauthammer predicted just that on “Fox News Sunday.” See that video here: http://bit.ly/2ykniE.
I hope General McChrystal does resign, followed by a parting shot in which he rips the commander in chief for being more concerned with Olympics in Chicago than with the welfare of our troops in Afghanistan.
Final observation: If Obama ultimately succumbs to reason and sends at least 40,000 back-ups to fight the Afghan war and that is followed in 6 months or so by another request for more troops, I say we declare victory and leave.
As opposed to the bugouts in Korea and Vietnam, we should also declare that any and all subsequent attacks on the United States that originate in Afghanistan will result in the total obliteration of that sorry state as well as the obliteration of the villages and families of the attackers wherever they are.
Is that blind mercilessness? Yes, it is.
Will it be effective in ending mindless, Islamic terrorism? I have no clue.
But that approach damned well beats our government’s plans!
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