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2009-10-31 Home Front: Politix
Meeting with Joint Chiefs: Obama Still Can't Make a Decision
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Posted by Sherry 2009-10-31 14:25|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 Obama continues to trash his credibility with, well just about everyone, friend or foe. Surely he knows the damage he is doing to himself - never mind the troops as it's painfully clear that is image is more important. What is it that he is so terribly afraid of that he is avoiding?
Posted by Richard of Oregon 2009-10-31 15:26||   2009-10-31 15:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Wonder if he will dare to show up for the Army-Navy game?

Go NAVY!
Beat INDECISION!
Posted by SteveS 2009-10-31 15:31||   2009-10-31 15:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Or "Obama still can't make his decision public".
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-10-31 15:37||   2009-10-31 15:37|| Front Page Top

#4 But opinion among members of Obama's national security team is divided, and he now appears to be seeking a compromise solution that would satisfy both his military and civilian advisers.

$$*$&#*#&@!!....How about making a 'decision' based on the IMPERITIVES OF SUCCESS!!! The poor helpless, communist bugger isn't worth 2 cents.
Posted by Besoeker  2009-10-31 15:45||   2009-10-31 15:45|| Front Page Top

#5 ...Ladies and gentlemen, he doesn't WANT to make a decision. Nobel Peace Prize winners don't prosecute a war. Presidents who want to remake a nation in their image don't want to be trapped in tough, difficult war overseas - that's what happened to LBJ, ya know.

The only thing President Obama wants to do is snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2009-10-31 15:59||   2009-10-31 15:59|| Front Page Top

#6 He's not making his decision about anything else than how he can appear to come out of it ahead. Right now neither option let's him do that, so he's letting the clock tick. Never forget, its about him.
Posted by Procopius2k 2009-10-31 16:01||   2009-10-31 16:01|| Front Page Top

#7 he's trying to kick the can past the Nov 3rd votes
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2009-10-31 16:05||   2009-10-31 16:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Thanks Mike and Pk2. I lost my head there for a moment and thought Barry might be thinking about the lives of soldiers and the mission. Not sure what came over me.
Posted by Besoeker  2009-10-31 16:06||   2009-10-31 16:06|| Front Page Top

#9 Iraq is done. Afghanistan is a mess, and there's probably not a damn thing that could change that. Since McCrystal is going for "the British technique", of pulling back into the cities, "winning" is no longer an issue. There is nothing, and no way, to win.

The mission from now on is to keep anyone else from filling the national power vacuum, to use Afghanistan as a base. If the bad guys start getting legs in the countryside, send out an attack to wipe out a bunch of them, and any locals who let them hang out.

In other words, stalemate with minimal loss of NATO life.

The secondary mission will probably involve using biological weapons against the opium crop, since chemical herbicides are a no-go for many reasons. But some opium poppy disease that wipes out poppies in Afghanistan will solve that nuisance.

So make a contract with Monsanto, then spray the crap from the air with drone crop dusters. They can grow any other plant but poppies.

It's not a win, but Afghanistan is neutralized.
Posted by  Anonymoose 2009-10-31 19:35||   2009-10-31 19:35|| Front Page Top

#10 Nobel Peace Prize winners don't prosecute a war.

That why he was awarded the prize. Those Norwegian socia1ists knew what they were doing.
Posted by Steve White 2009-10-31 19:41||   2009-10-31 19:41|| Front Page Top

#11 Nobel Peace Prize winners don't prosecute a war.

Didn't stop Arafish. But I guess it doesn't count if its against Jews.....
Posted by CrazyFool 2009-10-31 19:43||   2009-10-31 19:43|| Front Page Top

#12 1176 Days, 16 Hours, 19 Minutes, 12 Seconds.
Posted by Woozle Uneter9007 2009-10-31 20:41||   2009-10-31 20:41|| Front Page Top

#13 Wonder if he will dare to show up for the Army-Navy game?

I'd worry about the Notre Dame-Navy game next week...
Posted by badanov 2009-10-31 22:06|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org]  2009-10-31 22:06|| Front Page Top

#14 Not a chance. Too many Republicans and veterans attending. He's overdue for a warm, sunny vacation in the Islands.
Posted by Besoeker  2009-10-31 22:13||   2009-10-31 22:13|| Front Page Top

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