The ever-flexible steel-spined resolve of VoteVets

Back in March, VoteVets’ grand-poobah, Jon Soltz wrote at Huffington Post that VoteVets is very proud of their president for understanding the war in Afghanistan and applying the necessary resources to the front in a timely manner.

For those of us who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, it was extremely important that the new president get the situation in Afghanistan right. Not just for America’s security, but for those troops still in Afghanistan, and those heading to Afghanistan to put their lives on the line in the war. With today’s announcement, President Obama has shown that he “gets it.” That’s why we at VoteVets.org are supporting the plan with a petition, which you can sign on to, right here.

So, Soltz tells us that Obama “gets it” way back in March and that Obama is committed to the war. But then yesterday, dicksmith, who apparently doesn’t read This Ain’t Hell, but does read the Wall Street Journal (no, I don’t believe that either) writes that John Kerry is exactly right – maybe we ought to slow down and understand the war and our goals in Afghanistan before we commit more resources;

What he is saying is that we need to know what the conditions must be for us to be able to withdraw. From there, we can discern clear goals to help us get to those conditions. This is a much needed step in what has thus far been a conflict with goals that are ambiguous at best.

So, Soltz says that Democrats “get it” but when the darker forces in the party get the microphone, our goals have been “ambiguous” over the last six months. Of course, I know dicksmith is talking about the Bush Administration goals being ambiguous, but it’s been Obama’s war since January. You two ought to coordinate your message a little better instead of letting TAH drive your blog posts.

And now to address Soltz’ line “For those of us who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq…”, TSO sent me this artist’s rendition of Jon Soltz in action during his four months of motor pool operations in Kuwait;

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