But the thing is it is not just the American public that has become at best, uneasy, with the President over Afghanistan. It's not just the troops - exposed by lack of manpower and equipment - who are wondering what their Commander in Chief is up to. Now it's World Leaders who simply cannot understand a President who appoints his own General and then ignores his pleas for more troops over an almost four month period. This would be the same general that the president virtually ignored for months and months.
So we have a war that the President doesn't want to see "victory" in - HIS WORDS - and yet he continues to put our brave men and women in harms' way.
WHY?? EXPLAIN YOURSELF MR PRESIDENT!
And after you've explained yourself and we all understand that "victory" is a dirty word, then BRING THEM HOME!
The feeling of unease is spreading throughout the world. Does this guy (that would be OUR President) have a clue about what he is doing? Our allies have voters too and those voters are uneasy as their own nation's death toll rises. Britain - with some 9,000 troops in country - recently added another 500 in an effort to put pressure on the President.
And now he tells us he's reached a decision. The decision is he is going to make a decision on December 1! Well you get a "Standing O" from me Mr President! That's the kind of decisive leadership we all wanted. SHEESH!
Meanwhile Britain's Defence Secretary, Bob Ainsworth, is speaking of a “period of hiatus” in Washington - and a lack of clear direction - which had made it harder for UK Government ministers to persuade the British public to go on backing the Afghan mission in the face of a rising death toll.
Relations between the two countries are now strained which is actually kind of funny. You see the political power in charge in the UK is the equivalent to the Democrats. The close relationship between President Bush and Prime Minister Blair was extremely close - despite their political differences. Now we have the parties in power in the two countries coming from roughly the same place and we have strained relations with our best friend.
The most important thing here is not the President's inexperience; not his lack of judgement; not even his personal socialist agenda that threatens to take this great nation over the abyss. No the most important thing here are the brave men and women who daily fight for our freedom without anything even close to the full support of their own Commander in Chief.
Shame on you Mr President. Shame on you!
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