A scathing indictment of our Commander in Chief’s wartime conduct
Bookworm on Oct 20 2009 at 2:08 pm | Filed under: Afghanistan, Barack Obama
In Best of the Web Today, James Taranto politely savages Barack Obama’s absentee leadership as American troops live and die in the line of Taliban fire:
“The United States cannot wait for problems surrounding the legitimacy of the Afghan government to be resolved before making a decision on troops, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said,” Reuters reports from aboard a U.S. military aircraft:
Gates did not say when he expected U.S. President Barack Obama to decide on whether to increase troops, a decision complicated by rising casualties and fading public support for the stalled, eight-year-old war.
But he pointed out that further high-level deliberations would need to wait for the return of cabinet members from foreign travels through part of next week.
“It’s just a matter now of getting the time with the president when we can sort through these options and then tee them up for him to make a decision,” Gates said.
But Agence France-Presse reports the president hasn’t yet chosen whether to choose not to decide:
President Barack Obama has not yet determined whether he will make a decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan before the November 7 election runoff, a US official said Tuesday.
“The UN, NATO, the US stand ready to assist the Afghans in conducting the second round,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters.
“Whether or not the president makes a decision before that I don’t think has been determined.
“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.
It really bolsters your confidence in the president’s ability to achieve victory in what he used to call a war of necessity, doesn’t it?
But we suppose it’s easy to sit on the sidelines and snark. Barack Obama is president of the United States, and he is juggling all kinds of urgent responsibilities. Such as this one, reported by the New York Times:
Mr. Obama will fly to New York on Tuesday for a lavish Democratic Party fund-raising dinner at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel for about 200 big donors. Each donor is paying the legal maximum of $30,400 and is allowed to take a date.
And hey, if you don’t like it, grab a damn mop! As Obama said just last week at . . . uh, another lavish Democratic Party fund-raiser.
Meanwhile, the New York Times reports from Washington that “frustrations and anxiety are on the rise within the military” as the president dithers over Afghanistan:
A retired general who served in Iraq said that the military had listened, “perhaps naïvely,” to Mr. Obama’s campaign promises that the Afghan war was critical. “What’s changed, and are we having the rug pulled out from under us?” he asked. Like many of those interviewed for this article, he spoke on the condition of anonymity because of fear of reprisals from the military’s civilian leadership and the White House.
Shouldn’t it be the enemy that fears reprisals?
During the presidential campaign, Obama’s opponents mocked him for frequently voting “present” on difficult questions that came before the Illinois Senate. This is even worse. The commander in chief is absent without leave.
And, by the way, at least one New York Times reporter finally figured that those Taliban terrorists are not nice people.
Our President, too, is proving that he is not a nice person, but is, instead, a fairly reprehensible excuse for a human being.
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Bush was AWOL. This President is ready to lead, and is reporting for duty!
OH wait, that last bit was Kerry.
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Why can’t you all just leave him aloooooooone! He voted “present”. What more do you expect of him?
And that’s not all, folks. Read this, and be sure to read the comments.
http://www.americasright.com/2009/10/push-back-or-lose-freedom.html#links
No wonder I am not writing copy for the NYT.
Mr. Dithers is AWOL – Dagwood Bumstead breaks into the Mandarin Oriental Hotel kitchen.
Wait. All is not lost. Mr. Biden will make an articulate and clean statement about the collapse of American foreign policy, which will cause Amadinijad to pause, recalibrate the missile heading for Jerusalem, and send it to Constantinople.
Or maybe Berlin.
Or (possibly) Mecca.
Al
6.5 minute youtube video of Karl Rove demolishing Rahm.
http://www.floppingaces.net/2009/10/19/rove-accuses-obama-of-deliberately-destabilizing-afghanistan/
No. They are not competent to run a war.
I’ve been commenting with some frequency that, to me, Obama is like a quasar. Millions of light years distant, incredibly remote, blinking and transmitting to us from deep space. Deeply, deeply cold and utterly emotionless.
I’m not saying he’s a psychopath, but he completely lacks common empathy. He is indeed distant and remote. For him, the deaths of 20 million people would be an intellectual exercise. You can see in those (accidentally hilarious) teleprompter screwups that he suddenly has no idea how to relate to people, not even how to relate to the SITUATION itself. “Alright, then”, he demurs, “All right then. Are you fired up? I’m fired up. Alright, then,” is about the extent of it. They’re smirking and joking, or even upset at him, and he’s just saying, “I know you’re fired up!”
Despite his uncanny ability to speak from a teleprompter as if he’s fluid and connecting with you, he really utterly cannot connect. He just SEEMS to connect.
Obama is like a quasar
Interesting take.
He probably has lived his entire life on auto pilot and now on auto teleprompter.
If you go through most of your adult life prompting with, “are you fired up” – you have set the fire, but have no idea what to do with it – fan the flames or douse them.
I think his speaking skills came naturally to him and he learned how to use words for his own agenda via Rev. Wright. Actually, I don’t believe he actually had an agenda. I think Michelle was the starter pin and that she turned him in the direction of being goal oriented. I can read a face and Michele’s face told me, she takes no prisoners. She would never tolerate living with just a community organizer and not even a successful one.
Obama will send just enough troops to make sure the fight continues in Afghanistan, but not enough logistics, body armor, helicopters, munitions, or fuel to properly resource the war effort there. This entails the maximum number of casualties, which pleases Obama.
It’s not everyday you can help destroy American power and ensure less Republicans get to vote in the same package deal, yanno.
I want everyone to try to remember back to Bush’s war in Iraq. Remember when Democrats accused Bush of playing politics, not providing enough troops, not doing what was needed to safeguard our troops?
As the line after line of flag draped coffins come back from Afghanistan, those same people who made such accusations, do you know what they will be doing? Partying, getting drunk, and celebrating. It is Mission Accomplished for them.
“Our President, too, is proving that he is not a nice person, but is, instead, a fairly reprehensible excuse for a human being.”
In fact, this is a surprise only to those who weren’t paying attention, or who allowed themselves to be dazzled with the brilliance of it all.
Many Americans are involved in an abusive relationship. Getting them help so they can make it on their own, apart from their Sugar Daddy Bureaucrats, will take work and security.
Ymarsakar …
I wonder if HR3200 includes mental health coverage.
You can lead a horse to water…but I don’t know what happens when you lead a donkey to the same trough.