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| Krauthammer: Obama sends troops to a war he doesn't want to win |
| 2010-10-01 |
| By Charles Krauthammer "He was looking for choices that would limit U.S. involvement and provide a way out," writes Woodward. One can only conclude that Obama now thinks Afghanistan is a mistake. Maybe he thought so from the very beginning. More charitably and more likely, he is simply a foreign policy novice who didn't understand what this war was about until being given the authority and duty to conduct it -- and then decided it was all a mistake. Fair enough. But in that case, what is he doing escalating it? Sen. Kerry, now chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, asked many years ago: "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" Perhaps Kerry should ask that of Obama. "He is out of Afghanistan psychologically," says Woodward of Obama. Well, he may be out, but the soldiers he ordered to Afghanistan are in. Some will not come home. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #1 In addition to Obama's obtuseness, the USA really has no idea of what 'victory' in Afghanistan could possibly consist of. That lack of clarity goes back to 9/12/2001. Our current situation is very much like that of Woodrow Wilson leaving American troops floundering in the Arctic while fighting the Red Army with totally inadequate resources and no clear mission. That happened in 1919. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-10-01 16:59 |