Posted on 10/05/2009 5:16:49 PM PDT by Kaslin
Warfare: As the commander in Afghanistan tries to get President Obama's attention on troops, it's political players like Vice President Biden who have his ear. Yet the military has a record of success. Biden has only blunders.
By sending in 21,000 more troops and adding $44 billion to the war budget, the president erased doubts early in his term that the goal in Afghanistan was victory. Even more impressive, he appointed Gen. Stanley McChrystal, a successful Iraq War commander who excels in unconventional warfare, to lead the fight.
But the doubts have returned. McChrystal has merited just two encounters with Obama since taking over in June, and an Aug. 30 proposal seeking 40,000 more troops in a civilian-protection strategy has found the president unable to act. Amid the dithering, 10 U.S. soldiers were mowed down in Afghanistan over the weekend, precisely because they were outgunned and undermanned.
Obama's reluctance to face the war and the commitment it requires has given an opening to Biden, who knows little about war but a lot about politics. Last week, Obama met with Biden and various Pentagon heavies in a long sit-down in which Biden recommended fighting only al-Qaida and not the Taliban.
This might be an acceptable strategy if the battlefield were some place like Copenhagen. But Afghanistan is a failed state where terrorists don't wear badges and nobody calls the cops.
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General Biden please sit down!
Looks like Obama needs approval of General Biden before he authorizes the additional troops. Either that, or he’s trying to fit Biden to take the fall when the policy fails.
Biden is either the biggest buffoon the world has ever seen, has had his brain pickled by the alcohol he’s consumed over the years, or has an intercranial parasite eating his cerebral cortex away.
Mr. Biden is brilliant, brilliant!!!
/s/
IMHO
We have a very long history of incompetent, moronic, and corrupt Vice Presidents. Biden is determined to become the winner in all categories, quite an achievement.
I just don’t see why everyone is complaining about poor, misunderstood and disrespected Joe Biden, who as just everyone knows is acknowledged as the greatest living military strategist in world history. I mean, what could possibly go wrong with “The Biden Plan” in Afghanistan? Just think if we had had “The Biden Plan” in Vietnam. Why, uh, well, ok maybe not Vietnam. I guess we sort of did have “The Biden Plan” in Vietnam. Ok, bad example. How about - uh, never mind. Hey I got it! Lets get the kids together and we can put on a show, we can use Becky’s barn, and sell tickets, and raise money to save kindly ol’ General McChrystal. Yeah, that will work! “The Biden Plan”. I hope ol’ Joe can get ol’ Bammy to listen to him!
I had some hope Biden would be a stablizer in the radical Obama administration. No such luck. I have to remind myself that he was the third most liberal Senator in DC while in the US Senate. It shows.
He said he was going to end the war in Afghanistan. It is Obama’s FAULT!
A one-way ticket?
Just another in a long list of reasons I can't stand the plugged one.
Biden and 90 percent of the rest of Washington need a one-way ticket to Leavenworth.
“[Biden] opposed the surge in Iraq, insisting instead on dividing Iraq into three warring fiefdoms with unequal distributions of oil.
“He also opposed the Vietnam War, an opposition that led to defeat, a bloodbath of our Vietnamese friends and diminished U.S. global influence.
“In addition, Biden played a role in the flawed 1999 design of Plan Colombia, which at first tried to separate a few of failed-state Colombia’s multiple enemies — in this case, drug dealers. But the strategy enabled FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, to grow strong in narcotrafficking as other players dropped off.”
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