Posted on 08/07/2011 12:39:29 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
Anyone in a leadership position can take a lesson from President Obama’s 13-minute speech on Wednesday about the Afghanistan war. It was a study in how a commander often calculates risk in modern wars...
In his speech, Mr. Obama offered this simple US goal in Afghanistan: “No safe haven from which Al Qaeda or its affiliates can launch attacks against our homeland.” And he assured Americans that his drawdown of 33,000 troops by September 2012 is not risky. The war will “come to a responsible end,” he said. “There is no jumping ship here.”
The next day, however, his top generals revealed to Congress a picture of clashing risk assessments among the Obama security team.
“The president’s decisions are more aggressive and incur more risk than I was originally prepared to accept,” said Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “More force for more time is, without doubt, the safer course.”
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
Hussein's focus on the troops is more concentrated on being sure gays can openly serve...
I am angered by his obvious incompetence.
I saw the film clip of him doing his "I said change but I didn't mean change tomorrow" spiel this morning on Fox and-I'm not an authority, but I've been a high school teacher for better than twenty five years so I've seen some of this-I'd bet a bunch of money that he was fried when he gave that speech.
He was looking through slits for eyes.
Between that and it being Ramadan, I'm not surprised that we haven't seen anything of our Fearful Leader this weekend.
Long as Fags are prancing all over, the Kenyan-Commie is happy.
I dunno, more fags in the army? Mortalities are up? Sounds like he is targeting a specific group with fagocide.
“I dunno, more fags in the army? Mortalities are up? Sounds like he is targeting a specific group with fagocide.”
LMAO.
Yeah.......what would the military ever do without RUMP RANGERS. ?
For me the problem isn’t gays but gays open...it will cause strife. No one’s sexual preference is important when you are trying to kill bad guys. I believe gays have been serving in the military since the beginning...and they’ve done so quietly. We should keep it that way....just as if some heterosexual whore or whoremonger would be booted.
I agree, but now it is IN YOUR FACE!
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