Biden scraps robot ninja plan

Joe Biden took time out of his busy day to blow smoke up my ass this evening in his personal email (Paid for by Organizing for America, a project of the Democratic National Committee — 430 South Capitol Street SE, Washington, D.C. 20003. This communication is not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.);

Jonn —

Last night, President Obama laid out his plan to defend our national interest by refocusing our efforts on three clear goals: defeating al Qaeda, stabilizing Pakistan, and breaking the Taliban’s momentum in Afghanistan.

To achieve these goals, the President has authorized the rapid deployment of 30,000 more troops in Afghanistan, with a firm commitment to begin bringing our troops home in 2011.

It’s a clean break from the failed Afghanistan policy of the Bush administration, and a new, focused strategy that can succeed.

Our new strategy ends the era of blank checks for Afghanistan’s leaders, facilitates a responsible transition to Afghan security forces, and begins bringing our troops home in 2011.

Now, I don’t why, but when I first read the email, I thought the “defeating al Qaeda” line read “defending al Qaeda” – must be because I knew it was from Biden. But then I saw the “rapid deployment” line. First of all, it took 94 days for Obama to come to a conclusion – and the deployment won’t be complete until May. There’s nothing “rapid” in that scenario.

It’s not a “clean break” from Bush policy – it’s an expansion of the Bush policy. Biden advocated a “clean break” from Bush policy and a clean break with reality with his plan to use ninja robots in Afghanistan. I hope Biden, or Obama, for that matter, aren’t expecting a repeat of the Iraq surge in Afghanistan and banking on the same time line for success. They may be surprised.

I may be completely wrong, but if the intent of this surge is to protect the Afghan population, it seems to me that the units should be in place through out the winter (when the Taliban and al Qaeda are limited in their operations by the weather) and able to mingle with the population (like beat cops) with little danger of having to fight so the people can see how nonthreatening and human our troops are before the troops face the enemy in their midst.

But I’m not as smart as Joe Biden according to Joe Biden.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Terror War