This was predictable. What do you expect when a community organizer is in charge of the United States. The American people elected a man with no foreign or defense policy experience, who is a product of the anti-American Left. How can you not have the suspicion that his instincts are to root for America’s adversaries.
He can’t do that publicly. He can do that through his policy choices.
There is clear daylight between the Obama Administration and Gen. McChrystal, the commander of forces in Afghanistan. McChrystal wants more forces to address the growing insurgency, ideally, to defeat it. Obama does not want to give him what he wants due to pressure from the Leftists in his own party.
This is outrageous. We do not know what it will take to defeat the insurgency in Afghanistan. More troops may fail. The only guarantee in Afghanistan is that everything is hard. But not to support the requests of the senior American there is wrong. To deny the troop request causes the United States to lose the best chance, according to professional military advice, of defeating the insurgency.
This, despite Obama’s pledges in March 2009, to do whatever was necessary to win in Afghanistan.
Obama has placed McChrystal in a terrible position. If Obama sticks to his decision, McChrystal must continue to face a deteriorating situation without the forces that could be provided but will not be or he must resign. Faced with that choice, he should resign. A hard choice, no doubt. As an exceptional military officer, he would feel he were abandoning his men.
But it is necessary, nonetheless. By so doing, he would force attention to the issue and create a firestorm, despite the best efforts of the Leftist Old Media to put a pro-Obama spin on. McChrystal would ensure that the responsibility for failure rested with the Obama administration.
Most importantly, he would ensure that, when faced with the choice of military victory or defeat, Obama chose defeat. Nothing else could be expected from Obama.
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