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Why Is He Sending Them? (Obama Lacks the Will to Fight and Win in Afghanistan)
National Review ^ | 10/01/2010 | Charles Krauthhammer

Posted on 10/01/2010 7:18:58 AM PDT by WebFocus

Edited on 10/01/2010 7:21:41 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

From the beginning, the call to arms was highly uncertain. On Dec. 1, 2009, commander-in-chief Barack Obama orders 30,000 more Americans into battle in Afghanistan. But in the very next sentence, he announces that an American withdrawal will begin after 18 months.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; alqaeda; charleskrauthhammer; krauthhammer; obama; taliban

1 posted on 10/01/2010 7:19:02 AM PDT by WebFocus
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To: WebFocus

Obaman is doing it to get them out of the country, wear them down, destroy their equipment and morale, and kill them.

Maybe if he’d let the generals run the war and concentrate on making sure they have the budget and equipment to do the job...


2 posted on 10/01/2010 7:24:17 AM PDT by Little Ray (nO)
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To: WebFocus; SkyPilot; unkus; 2ndDivisionVet; Foolsgold; Doogle; tgusa; stephenjohnbanker; ...

Military families and We The People from Coast to Coast should be picketing and protesting this Pathetic POS.


3 posted on 10/01/2010 7:25:52 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead (Take back our country on November 2, 2010. Let's Roll!!!)
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To: WebFocus

Wasting lives like he wastes dollars.


4 posted on 10/01/2010 7:27:06 AM PDT by luvbach1 (Stop Barry now. He can't help himself.)
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To: WebFocus

“He is out of Afghanistan psychologically,” says Woodward of Obama. Well, he may be out, but the soldiers he ordered to Afghanistan are in.

Some will not come home.”


5 posted on 10/01/2010 7:29:18 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: WebFocus

John Toland suggested, in his biography of Hitler, that the origin of the extreme Jew hatred came from Hitler’s experiences in WWI, where he became convinced that the Jewish media in Germany were intentionally prolonging the war ... for dark purposes ... similar to those Hitler eventually became infamous for.


6 posted on 10/01/2010 7:35:12 AM PDT by Check6 (United States of Moronia: A nation of morons ruled by a gang of communist thugs.)
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To: Little Ray

And you trust this bunch of Generals WHY?

They are A** kissers of the first order.
Everydqy I get sick to my stomach at the thought of the young people we are endangering in a WAR that Zero intends to win and the lack of concern for our young men/women is unconscionable. Current events are that Pakis have cut off supplies to our troops. NOW just how much has to happen, a TET OFFENSIVE-like strike, for AMERICANS to demad our most precious asset, our youth, be returned HOME. NOW?


7 posted on 10/01/2010 7:36:12 AM PDT by Marty62 (marty60)
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To: Marty62

in a WAR that Zero intends to win
correction:
IN A WAR THE ZERO DOES NOT INTEND TO WIN


8 posted on 10/01/2010 7:40:17 AM PDT by Marty62 (marty60)
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To: WebFocus
Great work from Krauthammer...it will make you seethe with anger. Not such a difficult thing these days, but this is just so completely dishonorable, despicable and disgraceful.

…was the [rat] party disingenuous about the Afghan war all along, using it as a convenient club with which to attack George W. Bush over Iraq, while protecting Democrats from the charge of being reflexively antiwar?

[I’ve been to Cambodia] Kerry, now chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, asked many years ago: “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?” Perhaps Kerry should ask that of Obama.

9 posted on 10/01/2010 7:40:17 AM PDT by downtownconservative (Imam Obama has now noticed he has no clothes. His response? "That infidel Bush stole my clothes".)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

B U M P


10 posted on 10/01/2010 7:46:27 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: luvbach1

I really thought by now that we’d be seeing the Pakistanization of the war...


11 posted on 10/01/2010 7:49:26 AM PDT by WAW (Which enumerated power?)
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To: WebFocus
What really are we supposed to be fighting for? We're backing up a horribly corrupt regime who lacks the support of its population, and heads a military not motivated to fight for itself. The parallels between Afghanistan and Vietnam are almost scary.
12 posted on 10/01/2010 7:55:44 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Hey mo-joe! Here's another one for your collection.)
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To: WebFocus

Zerobama is LBJing our troops.


13 posted on 10/01/2010 7:58:19 AM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (Zero not a Muslim? Obviously then, their most favorite useful idiot..)
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To: WebFocus
WHY IS HE SENDNG THEM?

Because this poser made stupid remarks during his campaign about what an “important” war it was (as opposed to the “Illegal Bush war” in Iraq) , and cannot lose face now by admitting he was bluffing and puffing.

Heck of a cause to die for, eh?

Meanwhile he is desperately trying to get the Saudis to help him save face.

14 posted on 10/01/2010 7:58:26 AM PDT by silverleaf (The lesser of two evils is still evil.)
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To: Check6

Toland gives Hitler a much too noble outlook and rational reasons for his hatred.

How about the irrational and personal?

Hitler hated Jews because of deep inner fears his mother had an affair with a rich Jew whose family she worked for

Plus as a teenager, when his beloved mother lay dying, a Jewish doctor failed to save her life


15 posted on 10/01/2010 8:01:36 AM PDT by silverleaf (The lesser of two evils is still evil.)
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To: Marty62

They’re still better than politicians... Especially our current regime.

And its easier to relieve or fire Generals than it is to put bureaucrats and politicians out to pasture.


16 posted on 10/01/2010 8:38:06 AM PDT by Little Ray (nO)
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To: WebFocus

Ah, but we are all supposed to agree with the Government argument in the Lakin prosecution that the CIC does not send our troops to war, just some lowly, unnamed Col. The Lt. Col. Lakin prosecution really sticks in my craw as the most outrageous, treasonous act by government officials in the history of this country.


17 posted on 10/01/2010 8:40:51 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Obozo is sending our soldiers into battle because he wants to see caskets return to the U.S. filled with the bodies of this nation’s finest - notice that we are not seeing any pictures of caskets in the news of late? Notice that we are not seeing a running count of the dead and injured? The Lame Stream Media and this hoax of a pres__ent could care less about our soldiers. Protest? I say impeach the SOB!!!!


18 posted on 10/05/2010 7:49:32 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Papa of two new Army Brats! Congrats to my Soldier son and his wife.)
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To: silverleaf

That’s interesting info on der fuhrer. I haven’t studied him, just read Toland’s book about him, long, long ago. s


19 posted on 11/04/2010 3:47:30 AM PDT by Check6 (United States of Moronia: A nation of morons ruled by a gang of communist thugs.)
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