Obama’s Delay Is Turning Afghanistan Into A Quagmire
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Barack Obama we are told is a smart man. He attended Columbia University and Harvard Law. He lectured Constitutional law at the University of Chicago, but does any of this qualify him to be Commander-in-Chief?
On the campaign trail, candidate Obama famously called Afghanistan the “good war”. But the truth of the matter, Afghanistan was the stagnant war. The enemy shifted its focus to Iraq because that is where we chose to fight. The Taliban and al Qaeda where chased out of Afghanistan and into Pakistan and needed to be regrouped. So they called on Islamic “freedom fighters” to engage the mean old United States in its war against Islam in Iraq. Iraq for all the left’s bitching was the front line of the Global War on Terrorism.
Now that the Islamofascists have had their collective asses handed to them in Iraq, the newly reorganized al Qaeda and Taliban are beginning to fight back in Afghanistan. Now that Iraq has been largely turned over to the Iraqis (prematurely or not) US forces are now needed in mass in Afghanistan or all will be lost.
The President hand picked his own commander in Afghanistan. He just happens to be the man who got Saddam Hussein back in 2003. However when his commander asked for an Afghanistan “Surge” as General David Patreus had in Iraq, our paper President is indecisive and soldiers on the ground are dying.
Let me remind you that Obama called Afghanistan the “good war”. Promised to take the fight to Afghanistan. In the grand old tradition of the left during the Bush years, it seems that Obama lied and people are dying.
His indecision has led to a massive increase in the number of casualties.
From My Way News – US forces leave isolated Afghan base after attack
U.S. forces have withdrawn from an isolated base in eastern Afghanistan that insurgents attacked last week in one of the deadliest battles of the war for U.S. troops, the NATO-led coalition said Friday.
The pullout from the Kamdesh outpost near the Pakistani border is likely to embolden insurgent fighters in the region. The Taliban swiftly claimed “victory” for forcing the coalition to leave and said they had raised their flag above the town.
Now in all fairness the withdrawal was planned however, if the President wasn’t dragging his feet about increasing the number of ground troops in Afghanistan, perhaps the pull-out would not have been necessary at all. But Obama, like most Democrat Presidents since the end of World War II is indecisive. He would rather micro-manage from Washington than commit to winning the war on the battlefield using the best information possible – his commanders on the ground. This concern for not losing a battle tends to lead to drawn out conflicts.
Examples – Harry Truman’s inability to win in Korea led to years of stalemate and hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded because the President couldn’t pull the trigger. LBJ’s micro-managing of Vietnam led to hundreds of thousands of names on a granite wall in Arlington, Virginia.
The longer Obama stalls on an Afghan Surge, the more bodies will be coming home either mangled or in bags. This is the stuff that quagmires are made of.
Barack Obama we are told is a smart man. He attended Columbia University and Harvard Law. He lectured Constitutional law at the University of Chicago, but does any of this qualify him to be Commander-in-Chief? The short answer is no. The next question is, why was he elected?
