Posted by
Bill Crawford on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 10:49:45 PM
This is farce, and is rapidly turning to tragedy.
Obama, you wanted this war. I'm trying like hell to give you the benefit of the doubt on this one, and not believe that you signed onto this county as the "good war" just so you could beat Bush and McCain over the head with Iraq on the campaign trail while staying away from the 'soft on national security' label.
You took office and hammered out a startegy for Afghanistan. You handpicked a General to oversee it. You completed (your word) your mission direction last March.
Now, six months later, your General, who is one of the world's foremost experts in antiterrorism tactics, tells you that antiterrorism is not the right path, and counterinsurgency is.
So, while our people are putting their hides on the line in a situation that everybody agrees is deteriorating, you want to think about it all for another few weeks? I thought you already thought it through?
One other thing: your foriegn policy "expert" of a VP was the guy who was promoting breaking Iraq into three ethnic parts while the CentCom was developing the counterinsurgency that worked so well there. Why doesn't Joe have a sock in his mouth yet?
Lead, follow or get the hell out of the way. If you don't send him the 40,000 troops, get out entirely. Please don't pull a Solomonic compromise and send a few thousand more in- not enough to get the job done, but more fresh targets for the Taliban.