The Dodger In Chief Decides Not To Accept Any Recommendations On Afghanistan
There was only so far I could milk the use of “The Decider” in a sarcastic tone when applied to Barack H. Obama. Henceforth, he shall be known as “The Dodger In Chief.” And The Dodger is doing his normal on Afghanistan
President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing instead for revisions to clarify how and when U.S. troops would turn over responsibility to the Afghan government, a senior administration official said Wednesday.
OK, he isn’t going to accept any plan provided to him. What is his plan? Does he have one? 10 months into his presidency, perhaps it is high time to formulate one? Then again, 10 months in, it is high time to formulate an actual plan to deal with the economy.
That stance comes in the midst of forceful reservations about a possible troop buildup from the U.S. ambassador in Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry, according to a second top administration official.
In strongly worded classified cables to Washington, Eikenberry said he had misgivings about sending in new troops while there are still so many questions about the leadership of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
Shocker! He’s taking the advice of the guy who says he should just keep throwing over to first base to avoid throwing to the plate. Tough decisions are just not in his makeup. Unless they are on which American(s) to demean.
He has already had the advice of his entire military chain of command with a near unanimous call for reinforcements to move to the strategy that won in Iraq. We have watched as he has heard from the deep wisdom of Joe Biden and Rahm Emanuel. We have seen him dither and quibble and show a completely ineffectual and uncommitted face to our enemies and the rest of the world. Now months after his hand-picked commander has told him the situation is bad and getting worse, our troops in the field fight and die without the support of their Commander in Chief. He sent 21,000 more brave men and women there and now they are flappin’ in the breeze. How can a squad leader look his men in the eyes and tell them to saddle up and head out on a patrol, perhaps to be the last to die for a cause their President no longer believes in?
If Obama is not going to put any more troops in Afghanistan, he needs to decide. Now.
Update: Some more interesting words to replace the use of a sarcastic “Decider in Chief.” Blogs For Victory: The Ditherer. Legal Insurrection: The Dawdler In Chief.
I still want to know what President Neophytes proposals are.
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Posted by William Teach on November 12, 2009 7:40 am
» Filed Under Afghanistan, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Government malfeasance/misfeasance, Middle East, National Security, News, President, Taliban, War On Terror, military, terrorism, terrorist appeasement
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Good thing Obama wasn’t President in 1861: he’s the type of guy who’d appoint a commission to “further review the Southern problem” even as victorious Confederate troops were setting up camp on the White House lawn.
I posted this on a blog recently. If it was here, I apologize.
I remember another “leader” that thought he knew better than his generals. He was Adolf Hitler. How did that work out for him?
Obama won’t withdraw and he won’t go all out for victory.
He won’t support his commanders in the field and he won’t stop micromanaging from the White House.
He’ll just feed Americans into an Afghan meat grinder for four years.
It’s Vietnam all over again.