Posted on 09/24/2009 12:06:26 PM PDT by dscott8186
We have been hearing in the news lately that President Obama and his cadre of advisors are stumped as to what to do with Afghanistan. The Left is telling him to cut and run and the Right is accusing him of being soft on terrorism. Obama’s response so far has been to dither. Politically, Obama is in a tough spot because he painted himself in a corner. Only the incompetents paint themselves in a corner. If Obama doesn’t lay out a concise plan to get out of Afghanistan then Nancy Pelosi will have no choice but to throw Obama under the bus as she is beholding to the lunatic left fringe. Any plan that doesn’t involve a quick exit strategy or gives the appearance of slogging it out with terrorists (freedom fighters and aggrieved poor not on US welfare to the left) means he is merely following the policies of the hated George W Bush. On the other hand, if Afghanistan falls into chaos where the Taliban and al Qaeda go back to business as usual pre-911, Barack Obama will go down in history as the one who led the US (a superpower) to defeat at the hands of a group of people who don’t even own a tank or fighter jet. He will be known as Jimmy Carter the second, you know the guy who gave us Khomeini. The repercussions at the 2010 and 2012 elections would be decisive in toppling the Democrat Party from power.
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I think Gonzo is correct in his post that he plans on having our men and women basically butchered. This will actually please the left who seemed to enjoy our losses in Vietnam.
It may be that Obama will up the troop levels but will wait
till his pet project health care is out of the way. Your sons
may die for health care!
Another similarity with Viet Nam: Both countries share a border with China.
I’ll tell you just how screwed Obama is in Afghanistan - he’s taking policy advice from Joe Biden... and that’s not a joke.
You are not going crazy.
C’mon — Obama is stumped on everything.
He’s never done anything in his life and now he’s a military expert — expert on the economy, Wall Street, the automobile industry, medicine, insurance and foreign affairs.
He’s a total and complete fraud.
It really does not matter if he delays his decision into next month.
The earliest we can free up additional BCTs for Afghan from Iraq is March. 90-days minimum notice and one month transit means he has until December to decide. That puts the reinforcements in-country for the spring offensive.
An earlier decision will not move them sooner...
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