{"id":20607,"date":"2010-09-27T08:35:59","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T12:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20607"},"modified":"2010-09-27T10:13:55","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T14:13:55","slug":"woodward-comes-through-for-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20607","title":{"rendered":"Woodward comes through for Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that we’ve had the customary launch of another Bob Woodward book. this one “Obama’s War” we get to sit through months of Bob Woodward rewriting the book in the media to cover all of his liberal friends. In his first explanation, published this morning, Woodward tries to give cover to the Obama Administration<\/a>, right before the midterm elections, by blaming the military for his long delay and ultimately lightweight decision to send less than half the troops to Afghanistan that the commanders asked.<\/p>\n

When his national security team gathered in the White House Situation Room on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, 2009, for its eighth strategy review session, the president erupted.<\/p>\n

“So what’s my option? You have given me one option,” Obama said, directly challenging the military leadership at the table, including Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen and Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, then head of U.S. Central Command.<\/p>\n

“We were going to meet here today to talk about three options,” Obama said sternly. “You agreed to go back and work those up.”<\/p>\n

Mullen protested. “I think what we’ve tried to do here is present a range of options.”<\/p>\n

Obama begged to differ. Two weren’t even close to feasible, they all had acknowledged; the other two were variations on the 40,000.<\/p>\n

Silence descended on the room. Finally, Mullen said, “Well, yes, sir.”<\/p>\n

Mullen later explained, “I didn’t see any other path.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See, you can’t really blame the commanders on the ground and the leaders on the President’s staff – they thought Obama wanted to win in Afghanistan. As we can see, his priority was to leave Afghanistan regardless of the outcome. Our commanders are accustomed to some sort of victory…and Obama clearly doesn’t consider that an important option. He’s perfectly happy watching troops die while him and Bite-Me plan a hasty withdrawal.<\/p>\n

I’m pretty sure the president and the Taliban have come to an agreement that the Taliban will surrender their arms as soon as the US leaves.<\/p>\n

More likely, the final pictures of the US involvement in Afghanistan will be similar to the last photos of the US involvement in South Vietnam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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