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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nThe Washington Post<\/a> seems a little upset at their polling data about how the troops aren’t very pleased with the President’s performance. According to Real Clear Politics<\/a>, the Post’s poll says that 32% of folks who served in Iraq or Afghanistan approve of the job Obama is doing, compared with 65% who approved of George W. Bush’s performance. So the Post’s Jennifer Rubin, one of those conservatives (question mark) at the Post addresses what Obama can do to to improve his numbers;<\/p>\n We don\u2019t know why their view of Obama is comparatively so negative. Maybe they believe his budget choices reflect that they are a lower priority than, say, universal pre-school. Perhaps, they see in his rush to remove all troops from Iraq, and possibly adopt the \u201czero option\u201d for Afghanistan as well, that he lacks the will the retain the benefits they sacrificed to win. It could be that his wishy-washy approach to Syria or his unwillingness to deter aggressors like Vladimir Putin concerns them and makes the potential for hostilities even greater. Or it could be that, like my colleague Jackson Diehl, they understand that the president via his secretary of state \u201cthanks to a profound misreading of the realities on the ground \u2014 was enabling the bad guys.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Or, maybe, he shits on the troops at every turn. He has kept a bumbling moron on as the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Maybe folks in the military believed him when he said he wanted the war in Afghanistan to be “won” and every chance that he ever had to “win”, he squandered the chance in favor of political expedience. Maybe it’s because he’s weakened our place in the world so badly that we’re a laughing stock. maybe because they know at some point, his inability to accept that American Exceptionalism was what kept us safe.<\/p>\n Maybe the military is tired of holding his umbrella.<\/p>\n I do agree with Rubin one her last point;<\/p>\n And finally, it is time to install a respected and capable secretary of defense with a competent national security team to exclude political hacks from national security decision-making and to become realistic about the state of the world. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n Hagel is a buffoon who likes to make the politically-correct decision, rather than the effective decision. John Kerry is living out his dream from 1971, projecting his own worldview as our foreign policy. Joe Biden is a clown. Period. Between the three, the words “United States” are a global punchline. And toss the Joint Chiefs in that clown car, too.<\/p>\n The troops don’t like being pawns, they don’t like to be told that their tattoos make them ineffective, while Congress and the Administration cuts their training and their pay. They don’t like making sacrifices while the whole rest of the country doesn’t have to be uncomfortable one whit. Through the wars, they already saw that, so why is this administration so willing to let it happen to them again? Let, Hell, they’re mandating that the troops will suffer while admitting that illegal aliens deserve more from the government.<\/p>\n They understand sacrifice and service, maybe that’s why they don’t approve of the jet-setting President and his family.<\/p>\n Thanks to Chief Tango for the links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"