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November 11, 2009

Our Ditherer-in-Chief continues to 'vote present'

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Our "Ditherer-in-Chief" continuing to do little more than "vote present" in making a final decision on Afghanistan is complicating the Afghan campaign and significantly affecting our war effort. It seems our inexperienced, unprepared-for-office, president fails to understand that there is a cost of dithering:

General Stanley McChrystal's assessment and force-requirement studies were largely complete by the beginning of August. The White House has stated that the president will not be announcing a decision until the end of November at the earliest. White House officials claim that the delay does not affect the movement of U.S. forces or our prospects for military success next year. These claims are inaccurate. The delay in White House decision-making is protracting and complicating the campaign in Afghanistan and has reduced General McChrystal's ability to prepare for and conduct decisive operations next year.

As The Patriot Room aptly notes, the consequences are that whenever this community organizer gets around to making a war decision, everything will start from scratch. Three plus months to decide, more months to deploy ... will it be the same war when they arrive for which the assessment was written?

The answer, of course, is that the situation on the ground has been changing daily - for the worse since prior to September, and our Ditherer-in-Chiefs delay in sending the needed troops is making things worse as we speak. Remember, McChrystal said then that "Resources will not win this war, but under-resourcing could lose it." He also said that timeliness was paramount. Barack Obama needs to grow a set and make the damned decision to give McChrystal the troops he needs while there's still an opportunity to win this component in the "War on Terror."

Posted by Abdul at November 11, 2009 9:06 AM

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