Some people are questioning his willingness to carry on to victory:
Obviously, Obama gets to make his own call here. All one can do is guess. But if you look at the dynamics as they are shaping up, it’s difficult to predict that Obama opts to see Afghanistan through as a full scale war.
The newly appointed head of NATO and U.S. forces is said to urge an expansion of Afghan security forces and a revamped counterinsurgency strategy that focuses on making Afghan citizens feel safer.
The changes called for here are so significant, if Obama signs on, Bush gets removed from the equation and this completely becomes Obama’s war. Think about how the Democrat Party is aligned. That’s a big, big deal…
… does a very liberal Obama with a very liberal domestic policy he desperately wants to see enacted feel like carrying a potentially very unpopular war on his back at the same time? To get away with that, he’d need to find somewhere else to give concessions to the more liberal Dems in Congress and on the street.
Given the way liberals operate, we must keep open this question – that Obama might ditch Afghanistan (with some face-saving formula) in order to get out of war and get back in to socializing America. I hope it doesn’t turn out this way – winning in Afghanistan is far more important, in the long run, than any aspect of Obama’s domestic legislative agenda. There is much that I, as a conservative, would be willing to give up in order to win in Afghanistan – is Obama willing to give anything up?
Time will tell – but we must never, ever have a situation where Americans are fighting and dying for something other than victory. We will watch Obama and see what he does – support for victory, condemnation for anything less.
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