{"id":15784,"date":"2009-11-25T08:29:34","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T13:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15784"},"modified":"2009-11-25T08:29:34","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T13:29:34","slug":"afghanistan-decision-in-living-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15784","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan decision in living color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>J.P.Friere at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/blogs\/beltway-confidential\/White-House-releases-photo-shoot-of-Aghanistan-deliberations-72563132.html\">Washington Examiner <\/a>writes that after 88 days of dawdling on the question of whether and how much to support the troops in Afghanistan, all we get is a crummy picture;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/decisive-obama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/decisive-obama.jpg\" alt=\"decisive-obama\" title=\"decisive-obama\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/decisive-obama.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/decisive-obama-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is the image the White House hopes to see in papers. Similar to previous ones, the president is doing the talking. In this most recent, he is motioning his hand in a decisive way. In the most recent, note how many folks still have the coversheets on. (Maybe they&#8217;re cover sheets?)<\/p>\n<p>During every meeting for the last three months, the president has released photos of himself talking to national security staff about Afghanistan. This is during the three months after General Stanley McChrystal warned the president that if we didn&#8217;t take action within a year, the situation in Afghanistan would deteriorate beyond repair. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yup, 88 days of dithering.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another meeting to which they didn&#8217;t invite Hillary;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/fake-meeting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/fake-meeting.jpg\" alt=\"fake-meeting\" title=\"fake-meeting\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/fake-meeting.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/fake-meeting-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Somehow, the presence of Joe Biden, The Smartest Man In The World (TM), in a national security council meeting doesn&#8217;t inspire much confidence in the ultimate decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.P.Friere at the Washington Examiner writes that after 88 days of dawdling on the question of &hellip; <a title=\"Afghanistan decision in living color\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15784\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Afghanistan decision in living color<\/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":[46,84,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-military-issues","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15784","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=15784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}