Well, I can see why he is not defending himself but since this administration took over, our military has felt betrayed and that they fought and died for nothing (which is not true in the eternal sense). Their rules of engagement were established during Bush and this current administration is stabbing them in the back on their out. He should defend his military at the least and admit Petraeus’ Coin strategy doesn’t add up.
As one who lives in Germany, I can tell you that the predilection of the people here to despise George Bush as a "cowboy" or as a barely literate American Neanderthal has only been confirmed by his silence. That means the world was ready to give Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize for being not George Bush which was easily recognized because he was black.
So Obama went around the world confirming what my neighbors here in Germany had always believed, that George Bush was dangerous, that he reflected the dangerous side of America, that America can't be trusted (there is a real movement here now to align with Putin) and that Iraq proves everything they always suspected.
The president the United States had a duty to defend his country and he has no right to shirk that duty just because his name is attached to policy. To put this in context, however, Bush's sins in this regard were those of omission while Obama's are clearly those of commission.
