{"id":15145,"date":"2009-10-21T06:33:29","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T11:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15145"},"modified":"2009-10-21T06:33:29","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T11:33:29","slug":"rudderless-war-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15145","title":{"rendered":"Rudderless war policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who is our commander-in-chief and where is he? Today, the Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, told a gaggle of reporters<\/a> that the president’s decision to beef up forces in Afghanistan can’t wait for their elections to get unscrewed. Of course, he’s right. There are Taliban and al Qaeda operatives in that country right now that need killing. Obama’s decision boils down to whether he wants to kill them now or wait until Spring and then kill them.<\/p>\n

Why is he waiting<\/a>?<\/p>\n

“The UN, NATO, the US stand ready to assist the Afghans in conducting the second round,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters.<\/p>\n

“Whether or not the president makes a decision before that I don’t think has been determined.<\/p>\n

“I have continued to say a decision will be made in the coming weeks as the president goes through an examination of our policy,” he added. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is absolutely no reason to delay deploying more troops to Afghanistan waiting on the Afghans to learn how to run elections. Those fighters in the mountains need killing no matter who is president of Afghanistan. The Pakistanis delayed killing them and now they’re locked in a battle for their lives. Delaying killing those folks only benefits them. Of course, it benefits Obama because he gets to hold on to his base supporters a little longer – but meanwhile US troops are dying in Afghanistan. That doesn’t seem to matter to the Obama Administration, though.<\/p>\n

They get to lay some medals on some troops<\/a> for their actions four decades ago and everyone thinks he supports the troops. But all the Obama Administration has become is a ceremonial unit – he gets Nobel prizes for doing nothing. Jon Soltz, Chris Lejeune and Dicksmith applaud him<\/a> for sending more troops to Afghanistan, even though those troops were follow-on troops for the last surge there.<\/p>\n

This is clearly Obama’s war now, and he’s clearly afraid to fight it. In the face of a newly-elected Democrat Congress which had been elected on their promise to de-fund his war, george Bush made the politically courageous decision to send more troops to iraq which broke the back of al Qaeda in Iraq – and it was mainly because the al Qaeda thought they had won in Iraq because of the election of Democrats. Bush made it more costly for terrorists to ply their trade. <\/p>\n

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