Posted by
Dave The White House Slave on Wednesday, September 02, 2009 10:00:00 AM
I have mixed feelings on the wars in Iraq and Afganistan. Neither war has required real sacrifice from the American public. I recently heard one pundit say that soldiers have fought and died while Americans went to the mall. And this is true. We have an all volunteer force that takes the burden away from people like me just trying to make ends meet. And thinking about the troops, or supporting the troops or wearing colors that represent the troops, doesn't really help the troops. It helps those who want to sooth their conscience. Excuse me while I get libertarian for a moment: but why are we in 150 countries propping up economies, "protecting" areas that were former hot spots and in some cases waiting to be run over by an evil regime (see North Korea)?
President Barack Hussien Obama campaigned on bringing our troops home. Remember he was the only one with the street cred to get the job done. He had "voted" against every war even way back when he was a community organizer. And even though he didn't actually cast an ant-war vote in the senate, he would have if he were there. Besides, he campaigned against Hillary Rodham, beating her relentlessly with her support of George Bush's "failed" policies in Iraq. He would bring the troops home in a couple of months after being sworn in. He had time tables. He had a plan. None of it made any sense. But the liberal loons lapped it up like grease on a spoon. It was enough to sort of get Obama the nomination. Well, acutally it was a bunch of union thugs in Vegas who strong armed Hillary supporters to see the light.
So you would think with all of this anit-war momentum, you'd see us begin to retreat from all our foreign entaglements. But this has not been the case. In fact, Obama began talking up the Afganistan War while in the homestretch of the campaign. And the reality is that both wars have continued on track as they were before. The only difference is the press has focused on Obama's excellent strategy in Afganistan while talking down Iraq and almost never mentioning casualties. But groups like Code Pink and the efforts of Cindy Sheehan continue with nearly zero press coverage. So the truth is Barack Obama lied and people died. The Afgan war is excellerating. The Brits are reporting it
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6798436.ece . While the left in this country demonstrates amazing hypocracy. Why aren't they demanding that the troops come home? Is this still a war for oil? Or is it just George Bush's fault, since there's no way for Obama to just pull the plug. And what about troop levels? Bush made the mistake of fighting a soft war intitially that cost lives and made for some real insurgency. Obama has his liberal buddies likely begging him to maintain troop levels, which will make it hard for us to win. This will cause our soldiers to die unneccessarily. That is a form of treason. Why is this any different from what happened under Bush? Like everything else, Obama has made the situation worse and has shown almost no leadership. He has betrayed his base, but doesn't pay the price since the media think he's some kind of god.
I think we do need to wrap these wars up. There's already evidence of sectarian violence in Iraq that has returned after a brief lull. Tribes that have fought for 3000 years are at it again. And yes, Al Queida is in Afganistan for sure, what we need to fight to win or pull out completely. We have so many problems to deal with right now. It might be a good idea to take a break from being the policeman of the world. And think of all the money we'd have to secure our southern border and make the homeland safer at airports and seaports. Obama is not the anti-war president he claimed to be. Add that to his list of failures.