{"id":15587,"date":"2009-11-13T08:51:40","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T13:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15587"},"modified":"2009-11-13T09:27:18","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T14:27:18","slug":"still-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15587","title":{"rendered":"Still waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post tells us this morning that the President will will make a “Decision soon on troops for Afghanistan<\/a>“. In my considered opinion, nothing about this decision will be “soon”.<\/p>\n

“It’s a matter of making certain that when I send young men and women into war, and when I devote billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer money, that it’s making us safer,” Obama said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The period for “making certain” has long passed. It’s now a period of making compromises and keeping voters from defecting. A matter of national security has become a matter of electioneering and instead of listening to the generals, Obama is listening to Code Pink and MoveOn. The advice from General McChrystal has taken a back seat to advice from David Axelrod.<\/p>\n

The Post is so embarrassed by Obama’s indecision, the article, entitled to address the Afghanistan issue, spends two pages discussing our foreign policy with Japan instead probably because there’s not much to discuss about Obama’s failure to display any measure of leadership on this issue.<\/p>\n

Yeah, he makes a big show out of meeting mourners at Arlington<\/a>, speaking at Fort Hood, saluting fallen soldiers returning from the war, but in the leadership area and making actual decisions that don’t include iconic photos, he’s sorely lacking.<\/p>\n

Just A Grunt sends us these two media links from an interview with a soldier injured at the Fort Hood shootings who discusses the comparison of the visits of former-President Bush and current-President Obama. <\/p>\n

(The links are about a third of the way down this page<\/a> under the picture of the Fort Hood sign)<\/p>\n

ADDED: Oh, great, WaPo changed the title of their article. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post tells us this morning that the President will will make a “Decision soon … Still waiting<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}