Last year, we waited more than a hundred days while the President made up his mind whether or not he wanted to win in Afghanistan and provide General McCrystal with the troops he said he needed to win in Afghanistan, Finally, the President decided to give the General half of what he requested as a compromise with his political base – as if victory against terrorism could be possible with a compromise. <\/p>\n
General McChrystal is gone now because he happen to complain to a reporter about the support he wasn’t getting. Now, a year later, we’re debating whether we can win in Afghanistan after General McChrystal had already predicted we wouldn’t without giving the support he needed.<\/p>\n
Earlier last year the President tried to jam down the throats of service-connected disabled veterans a plan to force those veterans to buy insurance to cover their treatment so the President could afford to provide free healthcare for families making more than $80,000\/year who hadn’t served in the military. If not for the Veteran Service Organizations, we’d be paying our premiums right now.<\/p>\n
Now, we look at the “Defense” Bill which seems to have everything in it except defense.<\/a><\/p>\n What should have been a routine budget bill for the Pentagon is now a political cauldron brimming with proposed policy changes over abortion, gay rights and illegal immigration. Senate Democrats have folded, or attempted to fold, all those issues into a single defense package, leading to accusations that the Senate is needlessly politicizing its annual obligation to fund the military. <\/p>\n As the parties hurl political hand grenades at one another, stuck in the crossfire is the military itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n