Posted on 10/11/2009 2:16:54 PM PDT by honestabe010
Edited on 10/12/2009 10:05:33 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, said the White House would be committing "an error of historic proportions" if it doesn't accede to Gen. Stanley McChrystal's requests for tens of thousands of new troops in Afghanistan.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, meanwhile, upped the ante from the other side of the partisan aisle, saying that it makes no sense to stay in Afghanistan but not grant Gen. McChrystal the forces he says are necessary.
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One of the few times we're in agreement....
Got a bad feeling about this. Obama’s going about this in a half-assed fashion and a lot of good people are going to get killed. Either go all in to win or get the hell out! Commander-in-chief B. Hussein Obama is a cruel joke.
Obama is essentially an adolescent. He’s in a ‘refusal’ mode. ‘You can’t make me do it’.
There’s a name for it. I forget what it’s called. Adults get stuck in that mode as well, but it’s essentially adolescent.
And I mean ‘stuck’.
If they do NOT change the ROE, not one more American should be sent to Afghanistan. It is as bad under McChrystal as it is coming from oboogalu.
They are NOT babysitters OR policemen. They are Warriors.
Peter Pan Syndrome.
For me, I don't trust DiFi. She's a Dhimmi first, Democrat second, and a patriot dead. Effing. Last.
I think that she's dutifully playing the bad-cop role so that when the jOker surrenders, he can bore us with another 6 hour speech-a-thon about how he...ahem..."fought" fellow Dhimmicrats. Oh, lookit at how 'tough' he is, going against the Party.
Big whoop.
I’m in the same boat. What is victory in Afghanistan? We supposedly turned defeat into victory in Iraq, yet we still have 120,000 troops there. We really are stretched thin, and these wars seem to have no conclusion. I don’t trust our leadership now, and I didn’t really trust it when this stuff began. I am a patriotic American and I read and pay attention, yet I have no idea what we are doing, what the goals are, how they expect to achieve them, let alone pay for them or provide battle-ready troops. And while all this is going on, are we still ready if some new problem arises?
I don’t trust our politicians.
We’ve already achieved victory in Iraq (twice) and Afghanistan (once). GWB made one helluva blunder by not declaring victory and bringing our victorious warriors home before the end of his term. Of course, he also blundered by going along with TARP and the bailouts and the largest financial crisis to hit the world since the Great Depression. He should have fired them all and brought in fresh non-Goldman Sachs blood. Events could be unfolding quite a bit differently now had he done so.
Man, do I agree with that! But maybe he was afraid of yet another "mission accomplished" media fiasco. That's the thing. Things can unwind over there at any time.
I agree of course about the economics stuff, but let's not even go there. I don't believe it was a blunder. When it comes to Goldman Sachs, Wall St, and the gubmint, I believe the fix is in. I believe it's corruption, not ineptitude.
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