RSSObama Lays Out Poorly Contrived Military Strategy
J.J. Jackson | December 2, 2009
You fight wars to win. That is, unless you are a Democrat. The later being the case, you fight wars to surrender. How you get to that surrender is not so important as the surrender itself.
How many times over the past few years have we heard liberals, Barack Obama included, complain that Iraq was just a distraction and that Afghanistan was where we really needed to be? This became the preferred mantra du jour once it became clear that we were winning in Iraq after liberals proudly proclaimed the fight there as being lost and a quagmire.
Of course the truth was that it was just a concealed way of criticizing the policies of the administration that was in power and leading our men and women in a battle against Islamic radical terrorists which had been engaged for decades but not willing to be admitted to. Often I was excoriated for telling any liberal that tried that line on me that they were not fooling me and that I knew that they do not have any real interest of fighting in Afghanistan either. Oh no, they protested proclaiming their motives pure.
After Obama’s official speech and plan for Afghanistan, most of which was leaked before hand making the speech itself irrelevant and nothing more than a grab for face time, we see that once again I was right. Liberals have no intention of fighting in Afghanistan either. In the speech, President Obama announced his plans to withdraw troops from Afghanistan starting in mid 2011 and continuing right up through the next Presidential election. SURPIRSE! I am certain our soldiers do not appreciate being used as campaign literature for a man that they overwhelmingly will not support at election time and did not support in the last election either.
Oh sure, President Obama announced he was giving General McChrystal some of the soldiers he has requested, but he has essentially put a timeline on the war of about 18 months aqs well. Not a declaration, mind you, of we will leave when victory has been achieved. Nope. Victory is not part of the equation. It is all about a date certain.
President Obama tried to placate as many people as he could and buy himself more borrowed time. Granting additional troops, he hopes, placates those that think he should have been listening to his own generals from the start and fight the war to win. Conversely to that, he prays, his timeline to begin a withdraw appeased the left that never thought terrorists were worth fighting to begin with and blamed 9/11 on America from the start. In 2011, regardless of conditions on the ground he will begin a withdraw if the war is unpopular and he will keep the soldiers there if the American people approve.
Of course, fighting it half-assed is a sure way to get the vast majority of Americans to agree it is time to bring our men and women home. Even if for wildly different reasons.
Where is Sun Tzu when you need him?
When it was all over, we learned nothing new about President Obama. He still isn’t serious.
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