Obama’s Walter Reed excuse

The other day, the President seemed emotional during his talk with the media when he mentioned his meetings with wounded troops at Walter as an excuse for his inaction in the war against terror, or whatever the Left is calling it these days. From the New York Times;

The president has deployed more than 3,000 U.S. troops to Iraq to assist local security forces, and he recently announced plans to send 50 special operations forces to Syria. But he’s vowed to avoid the kind of large-scale ground combat that U.S. troops engaged in for years in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Obama appeared emotional as he spoke of the consequences of war, referencing the injured troops he visits at Walter Reed, a military hospital near the White House.

“Some of those are people I’ve ordered into battle,” he said.

He said the U.S. would have to be prepared for a permanent occupation in Syria or Iraq if he sent in ground forces.

“What happens when there’s a terrorist attack generated from Yemen?” Obama asked. “Do we then send more troops into there? Or Libya, perhaps? Or if there’s a terrorist network that’s operating anywhere else — in North Africa, or in Southeast Asia?”

From another New York Times link;

“Some of them seem to think that if I was just more bellicose in expressing what we’re doing, that that would make a difference,” he said. “Because that seems to be the only thing that they’re doing, is talking as if they’re tough.” In a subdued tone, he attributed his reluctance to the costs of war. “Maybe part of the reason is because every few months I go to Walter Reed,” he said, referring to the military hospital near Washington. “And I see a 25-year-old kid that is paralyzed or has lost his limbs. And some of those are people I’ve ordered into battle.”

Yeah, well, that all rings pretty hollow to those of us who have watched this administration dismantle the defense structure in this country. They want to ground the A-10 Thunderbolt, the most effective umbrella of protection for the troops on the ground. He doesn’t want to pay the troops what they’re worth and then he wants to hike their healthcare costs when they can’t serve any longer. Th Navy doesn’t have the ships they need to project what little power the Defense Department has left to trouble spots. His Office of Personnel Management has dumped the personal information of 25 million Americans, most of them members of the defense community, on Chinese hackers. All of the government’s cost saving measures are resting squarely on the backs of those who serve or those who have served in the military.

Now, when asked how he’ll respond to the global terror threat, he suddenly cares about the people that he needs to send into battle to make the country safe.

Category: Terror War