The Obama administration made a serious mistake in firing McChrystal.\u00a0\u00a0 A lot of\u00a0 people were telling Obama he\u00a0had no choice, because McChrystal put him in a box, but it is still a serious mistake.\u00a0 The Obama administration thinks that by immediately naming Petraeus to replace McChrystal that this problem is solved and the story will just fade away.\u00a0 They are wrong.\u00a0 The problem is that while Obama can fire McChrystal, the appointment of General Petraeus to take his place requires Senate confirmation.\u00a0 That means hearings, and these hearings could be spectacular political theatre.\u00a0 While General Petraeus has a lot of support from both Republicans and Democrats, Obama\u2019s conduct of the war does not.<\/p>\n
The liberal left is going to be asking the General hard questions about whether or not the war is winnable and why shouldn\u2019t we just give up.\u00a0 Liberal Democrats have a long history of being willing to walk away from a war without any regard to the consequences. \u00a0Numerous experts predicted the humanitarian nightmare that developed in Vietnam after we left.\u00a0 Many people estimate more than 3,000,000 people were killed.\u00a0\u00a0The liberals knew that, but, since they weren\u2019t American troops with the casualty counts broadcast on CBS, they didn\u2019t care.\u00a0 Just recently Democrats were demanding Bush to withdraw from Iraq, regardless of circumstances.\u00a0 They wasted the last two years of his President trying to cut off funding for the Iraq war.\u00a0 Even their own experts predicted that Iraq would have descended into chaos with massive loss of civilian life and an immediate resurgence of al Qaeda if we withdrew, but they didn\u2019t care.\u00a0 In fact both Barack Obama and Harry Reid declared the surge, led by \u2026 General Petraeus \u2026 to have failed before it even began.<\/p>\n
Republicans are going to be taking the exact opposite approach.\u00a0 McCain, for example, is going to remind the President that he is the one who said that winning in Afghanistan is vital to our national security.\u00a0 He will remind us that Obama described Afghanistan as the necessary war.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 McCain is going to demand that we do whatever it takes to win.\u00a0 There is zero chance Obama will do that.<\/p>\n
Obama, who has no leadership skills at all, will try to split the baby.\u00a0\u00a0 He will try to appease the left by saying he intends to stick to the 2011 withdrawal deadline and he will try to appeal to the right by saying he put in the General who won the war in Iraq.\u00a0 (The same war he declared lost, before it was won).\u00a0 The only thing certain is that neither group is going to be satisfied with his decision.\u00a0 He will not withdraw soon enough to appease the liberal left, and he will not provide enough additional manpower and firepower to give Petraeus what he needs to succeed.<\/p>\n
Afghanistan will continue to deteriorate at an even faster pace.\u00a0 Even though the main stream media will try and pretend that Obama showed leadership by firing McChrystal our enemies know the truth.\u00a0 The war in Afghanistan is being micro-managed by incompetent fools that are despised even by our own commanders.\u00a0 \u00a0They will view, correctly, the firing of McChrystal and the embarrassment to Obama as a major victory.\u00a0 They will be energized by this clear evidence that they are winning.\u00a0 It would take a strong President to overcome this.\u00a0 Unfortunately we have Obama.\u00a0 I hope I am wrong, but it would appear that General Petraeus has been chosen to lead the modern version of “The Charge of The Light Brigade.<\/strong>”<\/p>\n Did anyone notice that Obama went out of his way to say he didn\u2019t fire McChrystal because his feelings were hurt.\u00a0 Ah\u2026actually\u2026that\u2019s exactly why he fired McChrystal.\u00a0 We were already in serious trouble in Afghanistan.\u00a0 Thanks to Obama’s brilliant leadership I think we may just snatch defeat from the jaws of failure.<\/p>\n TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Obama administration made a serious mistake in firing McChrystal.\u00a0\u00a0 A lot of\u00a0 people were telling Obama he\u00a0had no choice, because McChrystal put him in a box, but it is still a serious mistake.\u00a0 The Obama administration thinks that by … Continue reading