Here's a sobering analysis from The Independent of the pressing choice Barack Obama faces regarding the U.S. mission Afghanistan.
The central question of the hour being: Will Obama listen to the military commanders or to Nancy Pelosi?
Will Obama vote "present" on the Afghan question, as he did on so many tough calls while still an unknown state senator in Illinois? Is Obama willing to infuriate his ever-loyal, pacifist base by committing to actually win a military engagement (such an aim, remember, is never the preferred desideratum of the furies on the left, for whom the fons et origo of criticism and loathing is always the United States first.)
Meanwhile, as soldiers are fighting and dying in Afghanistan for their country, their commander in chief has been busy dilly-dallying, making the rounds on nearly every Sunday morning talk show last week (even on Univision, yes, Univision) to apply the defibrillators to his dying health care plan. The American Narcissus even penciled in time to lap up the sickening adulation of the disturbed and giddy-as-a -school-girl late night bombast, David Letterman.
With a president like this, what's a military, not to mention a free nation, to do? Pray for a speedy 2012.
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