Barry's Afghanistan Strategy Is Apparent

Commentary:

Barry O is desperately seeking for a way to vote "Present" on the war in Afghanistan. While he dithers commanders in theater sit handcuffed unsure of which strategy to employ and the service members assigned to the front lines wonder if John Kerry's haunting quote of being the last to die for your country is now becoming a reality.

For a while I was giving Barry the benefit of a doubt regarding his decision regarding sending more troops to Afghanistan, but that benefit ran out long ago, to be replaced by a deep cynicism and now a downright firm belief that his disdain of the military, which is no different then many of his fellow progressives in congress, has now tainted his judgment to such a point that he does not intend to grant the commanders what they need to win. In my opinion, he is now playing for the end game, which is to have frustrated commanders come to him and say if you are not going to let us win this war then get us the hell out of here. He will conveniently leave off the first part and tell a gullible public that the military advocated for a withdrawal, thereby relieving himself of any responsibility.

If he can't get that, and he goes halfway on giving the commanders what they want and explains it as a method to determine if more troops would really be the answer by saying if a small increase does not produce the desired results, then more troops is not the answer, either; he once again has the cover of saying the commanders were wrong.

The bottom line is Barry O is looking for a way to do nothing while appearing to do something, and looking for somebody to throw under the bus when it fails, because quite honestly I don't think he wants us to succeed. He doesn't want to go down in the history books as the first Democrat president to win a war. They are very good about getting us into them, and pressuring those in power to get us out of them, but they aren't real good at winning them.

Fighting a war is not some form of an enhanced debate like the liberals like to believe. While they want to remind us of the human cost of war they seem unable to grasp the concept that inaction is probably the biggest cause of loss of life. Military action is built around seizing the initiative and assaulting vigorously, knowing you make take casualties along the way; but if you sit by and allow the enemy to get organized then the loss of life will be far worse.

For an example of that closer to home simply look at the actions of the police officers who responded to the shooting at Ft. Hood. They knew instinctively that they had to confront the threat and end it. They did not sit outside and dither over whether they had enough forces or the right equipment and they, just like our soldiers in Afghanistan, did not have the luxury of conducting meetings to determine what the right action was.

So right now you have commanders afraid to conduct any sort of operation designed to secure some long range goal, because that strategy may be changed by the new Commander-in-Chief, or you ultimately wind up not having the resources to complete the strategy and meanwhile the enemy is gathering his forces, selecting its targets, and moving forward not burdened by any ambiguity of what their mission is.

Today word also comes out that Obama probably will not make any decision until after his trip to Asia. In my mind, he is trying to run out the clock. What I mean by that is he is aware of the nature of warfare in Afghanistan, that being that the fighting ebbs during the winter and picks up once again in the spring. He is playing to get to halftime and hoping a downturn in attacks will give him the argument he needs to not reinforce the troops. What he is failing to recognize is that he will have to come out of the locker room sooner or later, and a failure to make adjustments will only result in disaster. At this point, however, it appears to be what he is playing for, using the lives of our military as his scoreboard. If he can't get the generals to demand a withdrawal, he will get the American people to demand it.

So Barack, either lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way. Unfortunately, he knows nothing about leading, he only follows his fawning groupies, and he ain't smart enough to get out of the way.