Obama’s naivete
I was a little stunned this morning to read in the Washington Times that Obama is still convinced that he was still right to oppose the war in Iraq;
Both Mr. Obama of Illinois and Mrs. Clinton of New York agreed that they would carefully withdraw troops from Iraq and rededicate the U.S. military to Afghanistan. But they sparred briefly during the mostly congenial forum on how the nation was led into the war.
“It is important to be right on Day One,” Mr. Obama said to applause, riffing off Mrs. Clinton’s frequent claim that she’s ready to be president on Day One. “The judgment that I’ve presented on this issue, and some other issues is relevant to how we’re going to make decisions in the future.”
He said that because “the terrorist threat is real” and because the nation has “finite resources, we don’t have the capacity to just send our troops in anywhere we decide, without good intelligence, without a clear rationale.”
Of course, when your audience is a pack of Koolaid drinking Democrat sheep, I suppose being opposed to a national security venture that has been the powder keg of American foreign policy for 18 years looks attractive. Especially since Democrats only approve of bombing the living shit out of the Serbian people to punish their leader and putting missiles into the middle of a Sudanese aspirin factory as a foreign policy solution.
I remember the news footage of Haitians standing on the pier in Port-au-Prince who waved their machetes wildly and actually drove off the US Navy. I remember that my friend, Tim Martin lost his life in Mogadishu when he rode a Hummer back into the city to rescue his fellow Rangers because the administration didn’t have the cojones to give the US Amy the weapons they needed to fight that war because they didn’t want to appear too aggressive.
Whichever Democrat becomes our President, we can expect to see these scenes played out around the world, especially judging by their constituency’s continued push towards US irrelevance in the world.
Category: Foreign Policy, Politics, Terror War
