This is getting excruciating:
Yesterday, fourteen Americans died in helicopter crashes in Afghanistan, the deadliest day for Americans there since June, 2005, in what has been the deadliest year for international and US forces there since the 2001 invasion. Meanwhile, in Baghdad, where Obama has ordered our troops into slow retreat, two massive suicide car bombs claimed hundreds of lives, including those of at least two dozen children, while destroying three major government buildings. And then, of course, came news that Obama had now played more golf while in office than our last president did in nearly three years.
All right, I don’t begrudge Obama the golf. It’s his dithering and cowardice I find shameful. During the campaign, he told us Afghanistan was the necessary war. In March, he told us he had completed a major review of the situation and come up with a new strategy. The commander he put in place has told him he needs 30- to 40-thousand more troops to finish the job. Civilians are dying in the war he wants to abandon. Our soldiers are dying in the war he swore he’d win. And Obama, caught between campaign rhetoric and reality, can’t figure out what to do.
Again, I’m not an expert, but I’m beginning to smell disaster, big time disaster.
President Obama: do something. Get in. Get out. Don’t just sit there dithering and having endless meetings. Councils of war are the tools of cowards – you are the President. Make the decision. I’ll back you on it, come what may – and so will millions of other Americans. What we can’t take is continued indecision while our soldiers are dying and innocents are being murdered.
A little less golf. A little less time making speeches. A bit more time doing the bloody job we hired you to do.
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