Posted on 10/27/2009 8:04:07 AM PDT by Starman417
This is the moment....when Senator John Kerry, who served in Vietnam and currently chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Monday that he opposes sending more troops unless conditions on the ground improve in Afghanistan. I'd say that's the basic gist of it. I think James Dobbins states it very well:
James Dobbins, who served as a special envoy to Afghanistan during the Bush administration and is now at the Rand Corp., said that Kerry had made many "sensible" points in the speech but that he found the conclusion unsatisfactory."The argument seems to be that we're not going to send more troops until we start winning -- which seems to me to be an inversion of the usual sequence," he said.
This is the moment....when on the same day, Nobel Peace Laureate, President Obama, gave an address at the Naval Air Station Jacksonville, in part to offer a statement on the 14 Americans who lost their lives in two helicopter crashes in Afghanistan.
"I will never rush the solemn decision of sending you into harm's way. I won't risk your lives unless it is absolutely necessary," Obama said to loud applause. "And if it is necessary, we will back you up to the hilt."
The problem I have with this, is that we already have troops in theater in "harm's way", in what he claimed as a "war of necessity"; and his top general whom he had chosen is requesting reinforcements. And the dithering Democrat appears to want to vote "present".
This is the moment, when Senator John Kerry says NATO allies and the UN need to step up and do more to support the efforts in Afghanistan. I agree; and so does NATO, which is backing Gen. McChrystal's request for the counterinsurgency approach and troop increase:
America's NATO allies signaled broad support Friday for an ambitious counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan, adding to the momentum building for a substantial U.S. troop increase.NATO defense ministers meeting in Bratislava, Slovakia, endorsed the strategy put forward by Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the U.S. and allied commander. The alliance rejected competing proposals to narrow the military mission to fighting the remnants of Al Qaeda.
This is the moment when Senator Kerry also said:
"Achieving our goals does not require us to build a flawless democracy, defeat the Taliban in every corner of the country, or create a modern economy-what we're talking about is "good-enough" governance, basic sustainable economic development, and Afghan security forces capable enough that we can drawdown our forces,"
Can anyone say "duh"? Who has ever said we were attempting to build a western-style democracy that looks like our own? Or that we would spend blood and treasure on Afghanistan until its opium fields were magically transformed into pink daffodils, fuzzy bunnies, and cotton candy clouds floating overhead?
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Kerry does, indeed, have military experience. After all, he not only served in Vietnam but in Cambodia, where, in his words President Nixon sent him in 1968.
IMO, these Congressional traitors have our troops blood on their hands. May God judge them accordingly. You can be assured that Hell will be full up with politicians.
“The argument seems to be that we’re not going to send more troops until we start winning — which seems to me to be an inversion of the usual sequence,”
Kerry is a pretty inverted guy. Just ask the guys who served with him in the Nam.
Here are a few synonyms of “inverted” that very acurately desribe Kerry: bottom-side-up, capsized, confused, disordered, downside-up, haywire, in disarray, jumbled, mixed-up, on head, overturned, reversed, tangled, topsy-turvy, upended, upset, upturned, wrong way, wrong-side-up
Questions?
Frankly, I think Kerry should just shut up. If he is acting as a spokesman for the WH, he is a Joe Biden foot in mouth disaster. Obummer praising him is like Bush saying “Brownie you’re doing a helluva job”.
The media whore, Kerry is nothing more than a straw man for Zero. Kerry will do anything including getting soldiers killed to get a crumb of relevance.
Kerry is a liar and a coward.
This is going to make some unfortunately famous or notorious cartoons/comics.
Unfortunately, morale must be very low in the armed forces right now, he is throwing the troops, that are over there now, to the wolves by not sending in more troops to back them up...we need a president, badly.
Kerry is the gift of idiocy that just keeps on giving. His statement about Afghanistan is the equivalent of saying "the beatings will continue until morale improves"!!
Their dithering around is killing our soldiers,
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