The Wannabe CIC

President and Commander In Chief Barrack Obama was at West Point tonight to announce his plans for continuing the war in Afghanistan. Finally, in what was over three months after General McChrystal had asked for an additional forty thousand troops, a request that included the warning that without these troops the war may be lost, in another narcissistic, uninspiring and consistently contradictory speech Obama gave the Nation his answer.

While leaving out the fact that Obama has been insisting for the last two years during his campaign that Afghanistan is a war that must be won, he shamelessly explained why it has taken him so long to make his decision. Simply put he wanted to make sure that he had covered all of his options. While this lame rhetoric was merely a sad attempt to cover his own failings, what is perfectly clear is that he isn’t very good at making important timely decisions. But really, what else should we expect from an inexperienced short term Senator/community organizer who has never been asked to decide on anything before?

As Obama was a candidate who constantly bragged throughout his entire campaign that he had a plan for winning this “just war” in Afghanistan, one would have thought that the initiation of that plan would have been a top priority the moment he entered office. If for nothing else think of the lives it might have already saved. But instead it has taken him almost a year, and a whole lot of thinkin’, to get around to this “new” plan. I guess he lost the one from his campaign.

Obama further stated that he would not send our sons and daughters in the military, or as he likes to refer to them as “a great photo op,” into another situation like “Vietnam.” Let’s face it America, this guy, like the rest of his Leftist cronies, hates the military and everything they stand for. Any and all admiration or concern expressed otherwise by these anti-American phonies is as insincere as their concern for our health care.

While once again giving Bush a few zingers for the Iraq War, Obama repeatedly compared the war in Afghanistan with Vietnam and warned us that we must not allow it to happen again. I couldn’t stem the anger that was swelling up within me as this new leader of the Left, the very people who insisted in making Vietnam into “a Vietnam”, was now lecturing the rest of us on the dangers of a half hearted, Rules of Engagement controlled, the enemy is not to be called the enemy, read them Miranda, the war can’t be won so let’s get out now conflict once again turning into a war of attrition. The way Obama and his like fight wars only guarantees that the conflict will always turn into another “Vietnam.”

Obama also expressed concern over the corruption of the Afghan government and insisted that America could not remain in Afghanistan if that government did not clean up its act. In the meantime he explained that our goal was to not to rebuild Afghanistan or its government. Yeah I know, you go ahead and try to figure out were he is coming from because I’ve given up.

This brings up the unanswered questions that if, in Obama’s view, we are only concerned with making sure that the Taliban or Al Qaeda, can no longer use Afghanistan as a place to launch their terrorism, and we are not there to rebuild this country or its government, why did Obama continually use the excuse that he waited to make his decision because of his concerns about a corrupt Afghan government?

If our only purpose is to kill terrorists who are in Afghanistan, and we were already there, and had gone there when the government was already corrupt, just what was the holdup in Obama making his decision if the elimination of this government corruption is not going to be one of his goals?

Obama stated his concerns about the cost of the war. As I have mentioned before this is absolutely insulting. Here is a man who in the last eleven months has spent billions on bailouts, false stimulus and larcenous pork bills, cash for clunkers scams, given almost a billion dollars to the terrorist group Hamas that rules Gaza, runs non-stop around the country and the world on the taxpayers’ dime, not to mention a date night or two and a AF1 flyby of the Statue of Liberty, is pushing a national health care bill that will reportedly cost over two trillion dollars in the next ten years, and has trillions lined up for the national budget, but when it comes to stopping Islamic terrorists from killing innocent American women and children its, “Whoops, hold on a minute! I gotta look at the check book to see if we can afford this!” But then all Socialists do have their distorted priorities.

The report is that it will cost one million dollars a year for each addition trooper who is sent to Afghanistan. Seems a bit much to me, as one thing is for sure this kind of money isn’t going to our boys for better housing or chow.

But getting down to the meat of Obama’s plan is that he will send thirty thousand more troops to Afghanistan. The larger part of this force will be sent as instructors to teach the Afghans how to defend themselves. Marines will be sent to clean out a particularly hostile area and rid it of the terrorists. They will deploy sometime this next summer, or six months from now, making it at least nine full months since General McChrystal requested forty thousand more troops, which included that warning of how without them this war may be lost.

Obama also stated that in July 2011, or eighteen months from now, our military will start their withdrawal from Afghanistan. He did not specify if this withdrawal had anything to do achieving a victory. But then form this wannabe CIC victory is not a necessarily goal.

One must come to the conclusion that these less than requested forty thousand troops and the date of withdrawal was Obama’s way of trying to appease his Liberal base. I still believe that Obama held off on this decision because he did not want to ruin his chances of getting his health care bill passed by upsetting this Liberal base. He was always going to send more troops but for political reasons he held off as long as he could until with the failure of quickly passing this national health care power grab he finally had to do something.

When there is strength in numbers, when we are already outnumbered and in a hostile foreign country, when our military is constantly surrounded day and night by an enemy that looks just like the civilian populace until they attack, that extra ten thousand troops that the General had requested are important. Who would know better in how many more troops were needed, an experienced ‘in country’ General, or an inexperienced been in country once for a few hours wannabe CIC? If you are going to send thirty thousand troops why not the other ten as requested? It makes no sense as it further endangers the lives of the men who are being deployed and it is all being done just as a useless bid to sooth the ruffled feathers of the Left.

Likewise Obama now insists that this depleted reinforcement complete the assigned job in what amounts to less than twelve months after the troops arrive. Well in anyway, in Obama’s view, completed or not, victory or not, it will be a done deal come July. This ‘Afghan Deadline’ is just another bone tossed out for the Left.

The entire plan depends on our military winning the hearts and minds of the Afghan people and thus their cooperation in fighting the terrorists. As in Vietnam we have seen in Afghanistan what happens to the civilian population who help, or even talk to, the Americans. Ask a Combined Action Platoon Marine, better known as a CAP Marine, or a Green Beret what the VC did to Vietnamese villagers who worked with our American forces. The same thing is now going on in Afghanistan where terrorists will kill the men and their families who have helped or are even suspected of helping the Americans in this war.

Obama now expects these terrified civilians to trust us and to help us even now knowing that come July 2011 they will be on their own to face the returning terrorists. How utterly naive can this wannabe CIC really be, or for that mater his advisors? This plan has a zero chance of getting any cooperation from the Afghan population, and really who can blame them?

Likewise Obama called upon our Allies to become more active in this war. But like the Afghan civilians, why should our Allies trust us when win or lose, we are already planning our escape?

Furthermore can any of you even imagine our leaders and media giving away troop strengths, movements and timelines during World War Two? Intelligence such as this wins battles and wars. It will cost us the lives of many good men. Yet even Fox News has shown were these troops are going to be deployed once they get to Afghanistan and what they are going to be doing. Our enemies now have the exact number of troops that will be in country and they know how many are in one area or another. We have given them the details of our interrogation techniques and how far we are allowed to go in that interrogation. We have assigned them the same legal rights as our own countrymen and have determined that they will be tried in civilian courts after we have appointed lawyers to defend them, free of charge, of course.

And worse yet we have now told them when we will discontinue the war. This is unbelievable. It is astonishing. It is insane. May God help our Armed Forces when faced with such an ample supply of stupidity and disregard from their leaders.

In the meantime these Islamic terrorists just want to cut off all of our infidel heads!

The first is a portion of an e-mail I received from my son when he was with the 1/3 Marines in Afghanistan. On a two day mission his Marines were escorting some Army medical personnel out to some Afghan villages to treat the civilians. Of course the Taliban who often kill those who agree to receive this American aid does not welcome this medical treatment. On both nights of this mission his unit was ambushed. There is also a short video of the first night’s ambush. As a warning there is also some rough language in the video.

The second link is a National Geographic program about some Green Berets at a lonely outpost in Afghanistan. My neighbor, whose Army Veteran brother just returned from Afghanistan, sent me this link. He also told me that these terrorists come across the Pakistani border and will set up a chain of rockets with timers that will set them off after the terrorists have safely moved back across the border. By the time the rockets go off there is no one around for our soldiers to fight. This video is about some Green Berets who also go out to these villages to give aid and to find the terrorists. It is about fifty minutes long and you will have to search for it among the “Full Episode” category but it is well worth the time to watch.

As it is twice now this current CIC has been asked to show strong, intelligent leadership concerning the Afghanistan war. The first was in making a quick and crucial decision on General McChrystal’s request and the second was his announcement of this plan. In both instances this wannabe CIC has failed miserably by being indecisive while playing politics with the lives of our military and our citizens.

During a time of economic crisis what our country needed was a financial leader with business experience. In a time of what should rightfully be described as a World War against terrorism, what our country needed was a strong leader with military experience. What we have is neither. For what we have is an inexperienced community socialist who thinks that by creating a generational debt we will somehow rebuild our economy. A man who thinks that by telling our enemies all of our plans, while refusing to even identify who the enemy really is, and who does not feel that victory in our war is necessary, yet still believes that somehow we will survive.

I have every faith in our men and women of our military. As in Korea and Vietnam they will win the battles. But once again the big question remains, will our public at home and our politicians allow them to win the war? For our Military the Left remains our worst enemy.

For example, after Obama’s speech at West Point, in what was an amazing display of Leftist stupidity, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews actually said:

“I saw if not resentment, skepticism. I didn’t see a lot of warmth in that crowd out there, uh, the president chose to address tonight. And I think that is interesting. He went to maybe the enemy camp tonight to make his case.”

Politicians never know how to fight a war, Liberals, no matter what is at stake, never want a war, and Conservatives always have to win the war to preserve our Liberties and Freedoms. The worst part of this is that the politicians and Liberals will not get out of the way so that the Conservatives can do want has to be done. It’s a dirty job but somebody has to do it. Thank God there are still enough of us around to get the job done, despite the politicians and Liberals.

Plus the entire time these politicians and Liberals are constantly complaining and plotting to lose the war only to then conveniently forget the mass murder of those we have abandoned. The Left can’t wait to forget the Afghan dead that will result once we withdraw from Afghanistan and the undefeated Taliban return to take their revenge.

On a blog I posted on the Arizona Republic website one Liberal commented how the Vietnamese were able to sort out their differences after America left Vietnam. This sorting out resulted in millions of dead Southeast Asians, with millions more arrested and still more escaping to other countries like the United States. That is Liberal diplomacy and their idea of sorting things out.

With that terrible memory of what happened in Southeast Asia after America went home, may God help the Afghan people after Obama deserts them in the summer of 2011.

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Outstanding article.

This speech clearly shows Zero's inept handling of the war. It would be funny if there wasn't so much at stake; including the security of our own country.

This creature does not deserve to be in the White House. He is a colossal failure at running this country.

“Whoops, hold on a minute! I gotta look at the check book to see if we can afford this!”

Boy! Mr. Frugality looking out for the tax payers again huh. Very considerate of him finding these places to cut back. (sarc.)

what else should we expect from an inexperienced short term Senator/community organizer who has never been asked to decide on anything before?

You can imagine what the parents of a deployed Marine felt like after last night.

Tht last two years of Bush, all we heard from the commie bag fastards was our budget was out of control!! Where is that voice amongst the commies now?? (same as democraps) .

Obama has never been anything other than a racist negro community organizer wannabeeee ... a muslim Al Shoptaan, or Rebrend Jezzz Jokksiiin .. he doesn’t have enough intellectual power to blow a morons nose .... and YET ... those “hope and Change lovers voted for him. Guess we know what that makes them

It's GLOBAL now. The idiot has really managed to "step in it".

Patrice Lumumba Obongo WAS selling Japanese textbooks on how to speak in English, but now, I kid you not, he is teaching Japanese people a WHOLE NEW SET of funny and humiliating English words. Just from Mainichi Daily News in Japanese tonight!

bowお辞儀（写真説明はお辞儀する） spark ～～を引き起こす conservative保守派の（後出は保守派） seize on ～～に飛びつく Emperor天皇陛下（写真説明 Empress は皇后陛下） accuse ～ of ...～を…で非難する commander in chief最高司令官（ここでは大統領） grovel（ここでは）最敬礼する（後出 genuflect も同意） greetあいさつする simultaneous同時の furious猛烈な commentary論評 negative否定的な highly charged緊迫した oppose反対する overhaul見直す perceived stumbleミスらしきこと written response文書による回答 State Department米国務省 protocol office儀典官室

For all that the author claims the Zer0 isn’t a real leader, he was still confused by the Zer0’s claim that we’re in Afghanistan to clear out the Taliban, not rebuild the government, but one problem is that the Afgh government is corrupt. He is simply passing the buck, and voting “present” again. This way, he can dither around for another year, not really committing our forces to anything useful, while letting the death toll slowly climb, and then when he starts to take heat for it, he can simply point the finger at the Afgh government and say it’s their fault.

“three months after General McChrystal had asked for an additional forty thousand troops”

Actually, McChrystal asked for 60,000 with 40,000 being the minimum essential number to avoid imminent defeat. Obama’s decision to send 30,000 should be viewed in that context. He owns this war and whatever outcome ensues from his weak performance as CIC.

Visited with my nephew last week. (He's back in Iraq!)

The units are doing what they can, with professionalism and courage, but they know what they're faced with in regards to this administration.

Prior to my son's recent deployment we spent some time down in North Carolina with him. The Marines tend to hide their feeling better than most. They are very task oriented and don't think about much else.
I know they are for the most part a very conservative crowd, but not very demonstrable on their thoughts.

His facial expression never changed during the speech. It was like he put on his “CIC” face; read a speech; shook a few hands, and got the hell out of here. Not a place that a “Bill Ayers buddy” would feel comfortable.

0bama is nothing but a Chicago school yard bully.

Samuel Johnston:
• “It is apprehended that Jews, Mahometans (Muslims), pagans, etc., may be elected to high offices under the government of the United States. Those who are Mahometans, or any others who are not professors of the Christian religion, can never be elected to the office of President or other high office, [unless] first the people of America lay aside the Christian religion altogether, it may happen. Should this unfortunately take place, the people will choose such men as think as they do themselves. [Elliot’s Debates, Vol. IV, pp 198-199, Governor Samuel Johnston, July 30, 1788 at the North Carolina Ratifying Convention]

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