Orwellian excuse-making
Jules eviscerates the Ditherer In Chief, whose rank cowardice and inability to make hard decisions for fear of offending his whackjob base is being lauded in the usual quarters as a demented sort of heroism; an Olympian capacity for careful deliberation; a Solomonic wisdom; and even — *snort* — “courage”:
OK, I get that the political piece is vitally important, and for Eikenberry, up to his armpits in scheming warlords and bureaucrats in Kabul with his frontline diplomats daily engaged in pitched and desperate note-passing against an entrenched corruptancy, the light at the top of his own well probably is awfully dim and far away. This is a highly complex situation. Thinking outside the box, maybe it does make sense to put the cart ahead of the horse. It is intriguing, though, that in the middle of a hot war in which a determined, murderous enemy is making gains, there are ”options beyond military planning” that are so pressing that they actually trump military planning. Sounds like the president, in a show of resolve, wants to signal more firmly to Karzai and the scheming warlords that the United States is prepared to hold its breath until the Afghan people turn blue, or that the United States might even take its bat and ball and go home. Also, to signal to the United States military that he won’t be pushed around if it kills them.
One bright spot, in the Vietnam avoidance agenda. Remember how they accused LBJ of picking targets from the Oval Office? Can’t accuse Obama of that. He’s actively not picking targets from the Oval Office.
Like I said the other day: a sorry excuse for a President, a sorry excuse for an American, and a sorry excuse for a man.
As Jules mentions in an update, a certain deranged internet laughingstock — weak-kneed, with lip a-tremble and eyes peering mistily out from the miasma of a man-crush so deep and viscous that the light of reality can’t penetrate it — while actually daring to compare this callow dilettante to Reagan (!), says, “We have a President.” No, we have a fraud, a gutless pussy, and a man so cynical, morally bereft, and recklessly self-involved as to not be bothered in the least that American fighting men are dying without proper support while he refuses to make a tough call, for fear of the political damage he might do to himself.
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Pres. Dither Hither N. Yon has already proven he's willing to endanger the military to indulge himself. That's called "Ft. Hood-ism". I only wish he'd hurry up so we can do it all over again in another 6 months.
Actually, when I heard how he was calibrating the number of troops on latrine duty in each province based on Col. Sander's Top Secret blend of eleven herbs and spices, all to send Karzai a message, I thought of LBJ and McNamara immediately. The Bestest and the Brighterest haven't quite figured out how to lose this one yet [without fingerprints], but they're working on it.