Liberal Lunacy: Obama Ignores Afghan War and Blows Big Bucks on Olympic Mission
OK, WE'RE RIGHT! ^ September 30, 2009 Oscar De Los Santos and Kelly L. Goodridge
Posted on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 8:06:57 AM by OK Right
Countless articles, documentaries and films recently heralded the Woodstock Festival’s 40th anniversary. Few of the retrospectives mentioned the soldiers dying in Vietnam as stoners rocked out in rural New York.
Something similar is happening now. Afghan War Commander General McChrystal requested 40 thousand additional troops weeks ago. Instead of complying, President Barrack Hussein Obama continues to stall even as he attends to matters he deems more important than losing a war.
There’s the ongoing healthcare issue – something the president seems determined to ram down America’s throat, polls be damned. As of September 28, “Just 41% of voters nationwide now favor the healthcare reform proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats” (“Health Care Reform: Support for Health Care Plan Hits New Low,” Rasmussen Reports, http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/september_2009/health_care_reform).
OK, WE'RE RIGHT! ^ September 30, 2009 Oscar De Los Santos and Kelly L. Goodridge
Posted on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 8:06:57 AM by OK Right
Countless articles, documentaries and films recently heralded the Woodstock Festival’s 40th anniversary. Few of the retrospectives mentioned the soldiers dying in Vietnam as stoners rocked out in rural New York.
Something similar is happening now. Afghan War Commander General McChrystal requested 40 thousand additional troops weeks ago. Instead of complying, President Barrack Hussein Obama continues to stall even as he attends to matters he deems more important than losing a war.
There’s the ongoing healthcare issue – something the president seems determined to ram down America’s throat, polls be damned. As of September 28, “Just 41% of voters nationwide now favor the healthcare reform proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats” (“Health Care Reform: Support for Health Care Plan Hits New Low,” Rasmussen Reports, http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/september_2009/health_care_reform).
But Obama must consider the 2016 Olympics his most pressing political matter. He wants the games held in Chicago. So of course, he and First Lady Michelle are jetting off to Copenhagen– in separate planes – to make a personal appeal to the Olympic Committee. Never mind that the cost of Obama alone making the four thousand mile trip aboard Air Force One will set American taxpayers back anywhere from $300K to $500K, each way (Penny Starr, CNS News, September 30,2009, http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/54762). After all, there’s no other way to get in touch with the Olympic Committee except to go meet it face-to-face, right?
The Afghan war should be tops on Obama’s list. Instead, he’s doing anything but making a decision on whether or not to honor General McChrystal’s troop request. That stall is costing us lives. McChrystal admitted on last Sunday’s 60 Minutes that he’s spoken to Obama just once in the past 70 days. Never mind that there’s a chain of command in place and Obama wants McChrystal to communicate with the Pentagon first. The president can do better than have a single direct communiqué with his on-site commander in 70 days. To do otherwise is an insult to McChrystal and every soldier who volunteered to serve his country in any way it deems necessary.
Funny how Obama continues to hedge – and liberals continue to give him a pass – on an Afghan war decision. Remember how the libs crucified President George W. Bush for not taking a firmer stance on Afghanistan? Remember how they vilified W for the troop surge in Iraq, which finally turned things around?
Truth be told, the Iraq surge was a resounding success. And in that fact is the key to Obama’s fudging on a similar Afghan surge. Sure, angering liberals may account for part of the president’s hesitancy, but there’s also this to consider: To give McChrystal the additional troops he requested would be tantamount to admitting that W was right in ordering the Iraq surge.
In fact, George W. Bush was right about a lot of things. He was right about the Iraq surge and he was right about Iran. Recall that Bush was laughed at for treating Iran as a dangerous enemy determined to join the nuclear arms community. Now we’ve learned that Ahmadinejad and company have long been cooking up uranium in hidden sites throughout the country.
W understood what President Ronald Reagan understood all too well: peace is best upheld through strength. Iran wouldn’t be processing nuke fuel and preparing an Israel doomsday bomb if Reagan, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were still in power.
And neither Reagan nor W would be running a fool’s errand to Denmark in order to secure a round of games while our troops are pleading for help.
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