What The...?

What the...

What the heck happened on the way to Afghanistan? To hear Obama speak in the 2008 election it was the right war and was dubbed the Obama War. Today, it has not taken shape as it should have and we are already speaking of exiting the country with the outcome far from certain. Things don’t seem to be getting much better and what gains we do have are fragile at best.

 

One would think with advancements in the war, we would have a greater net of security and less casualties as Afghan forces begin to take over, as in Iraq. No such luck. The loss of American service men is happening at a rate five times the rate when Bush was in office. Without even putting his full attention on Afghanistan, Bush was doing a better job than Obama is today in a war called the “right war” or the war we should be fighting.

 

The half hearted surge was done with less troops than Obama’s advisors called for in a painstaking 80 wait for the obvious answer everyone knew was coming. It did not have the full effect a surge should have and was retarded by the slow decision to make the move to increase force levels. For being the right war we sure have been making all the wrong moves.

 

We have not even been able to get ourselves out of other wars we are fighting and we are heading into Libya under the guise of the UN- a force that we are providing 75% of the firepower and is no more than a smokescreen to try and keep Obama from having to admit we are in a third war. Qadaffi does not seem to be capitulating any time soon and the air war is not going to win a war and never has in the history of war.

 

It is hard to figure out just what our foreign policy is anywhere and we can imagine all the horrible atrocities that “might occur” as in Libya to justify war but we are left with nothing less than a mess to clean up. When we break Libya we may have to fix it with money that we do not have. This is the real puzzler: how to pay for a war we don’t call a war and how to get out of a war we aren’t in.

 

This seems to be the norm for Obama as he practices his version of what a real foreign policy should be and is nothing but a hodge-podge of this and that and really leaves you wondering, what the...?

 

To put our troops in harm’s way should be done with a serious thought and committing our resources makes any president accountable and one can only imagine the outcry if Bush was conducting himself as Obama is. The Code Pink would see red; Cindy Sheehan would have another son so that she could decry the injustices done to him. But we get nothing; why no outcry? It’s all political, it’s all a sham and it is all pathetic. What the...?