Self Centered Political Announcement left Troops at Mercy of Taliban!
Announcement Allowed Obama To Continue To Hold His Liberal Base
And Allowed Islamic Jihad Forces to Plan For a Withdrawal Slaughter
Knowing the year American AND NATO Forces would Begin Pullout
Americans Arise – Don’t Fall Victim again to his Tales of Struggle
Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and All What-So-Ever
Don’t Fall Again for the Rhetoric of a Charming Silver Tongue
Don’t let the political master sway you with tales of Youth
Don’t leave a novice with a congress he can Manipulate!
Don’t restore his popularity rating to destroy America
By keeping him in political control of a huge Deficit!
September 8, 2010
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Begin Excerpt from THE JERUSALEM POST via THE WASHINGTON POST
The distracted commander in chief
By C.
KRAUTHAMMER
09/05/2010 22:44
Some presidents may not like being wartime leaders, but they don’t get to decide. History does.
Many have charged that President Barack Obama’s decision to begin withdrawing from Afghanistan
10 months from now is hampering our war effort.
But now it’s official. In a stunning statement last week, Marine Corps Commandant Gen.
James Conway admitted that the July 2011 date is “probably giving our enemy sustenance.”
A remarkably bold charge for an active military officer.
It stops just short of suggesting aiding and abetting the enemy.
Yet the observation is obvious: It is surely harder to prevail in a war that hinges on the allegiance of the locals when they hear the US president talk of beginning a withdrawal that will ultimately leave them to the mercies of the Taliban.
How did Obama come to this decision? “Our Afghan policy was focused as much as anything on domestic politics,” an Obama adviser at the time told The New York Times’s Peter Baker. “He would not risk losing the moderate to centrist Democrats in the middle of health insurance reform, and he viewed that legislation as the makeor- break legislation for his administration.”
If this is true, then Obama’s military leadership can only be called scandalous. During the past week, 22 Americans were killed over a four-day period in Afghanistan. This is not a place about which decisions should be made to placate congressmen, pass health care and thereby maintain a president’s political standing. This is a place about which a president should make decisions to best succeed in the military mission he himself has set out.
But Obama sees his wartime duties as a threat to his domestic agenda. These wars are a distraction, unwanted interference with his true vocation – transforming America.
SUCH AN impression could only have been reinforced when, given the opportunity in his Oval Office address t
his week to dispel the widespread perception in Afghanistan that America is leaving, Obama doubled down on his ambivalence.
After giving a nod to the pace of troop reductions being conditions-based, he declared with his characteristic “but make no mistake” that “this transition will begin – because open-ended war serves neither our interests nor the Afghan people’s.”
These are the words of a man who wants out.
Most emphatically on Iraq, where from the beginning Obama has made clear that his objective is simply ending combat by an arbitrary deadline – despite the fact that a new government has not been formed and all our hard-won success hangs in the balance – to address the more paramount concern: keeping a campaign promise. Time to “turn the page” and turn America elsewhere.
At first you’d think that turning is to Afghanistan. But Obama added nothing to his previously stated Afghan policy, while emphatically reconfirming July 2011 as the beginning of the end, or more diplomatically, of the “transition.”
Well then, at least you’d expect some insight into his larger foreign policy. After all, this was his first Oval Office address on the subject.
What is the meaning, if any, of the Iraq and Afghan wars? And what of the clouds forming beyond those theaters: the drone-war escalation in Pakistan, the rise of al-Qaida in Yemen, the danger of Somalia falling to al-Shabab and the threat of renewed civil war in Islamist Sudan as a referendum on independence for southern Christians and animists approaches? This was the stage for Obama to explain what follows the now-abolished global war on terror. Where does America stand on the spreading threats to stability, decency and US interests from the Horn of Africa to the Hindu Kush? On this, not a word. Instead, Obama made a strange and clumsy segue into a pep talk on the economy.
Rebuilding it, he declared, “must be our central mission as a people, and my central responsibility as president.”
This in a speech ostensibly about the two wars he is directing. He could not have made more clear where his priorities lie, and how much he sees foreign policy – war policy – as subordinate to his domestic ambitions.
Unfortun ately, wh
at for Obama is a distraction is life or death for US troops now on patrol in Kandahar province. Some presidents may not like being wartime leaders, but they don’t get to decide. History does.
Obama needs to accept the role.
It’s not just the US military, as Baker reports, that is “worried he is not fully invested in the cause.” Our allies, too, are experiencing doubt.
And our enemies are drawing sustenance.
The Washington Post
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