The question is: "Will Obama send more troops to Afghanistan?" He has only four choices, send none, keep the statuesque, bring them home, or send more
Here is my prediction: He will send more troops later, much later! Here is why I think he will send more and why he has not yet sent them. (When he sends them it will take months to get them in place)
First, his procrastination is indicative of his inexperience as a military commander. As seasoned commanders know, you have to choose, oftentimes without all the information at hand, but you have to choose, or the enemy will choose for you. Second, he is listening too much to his inner circle who are even less experienced on these matters. Third, his inner circle has told him to fear those that elected him to the job based on his campaign promises. In other words, this is all about pandering!
It is so sad to use politics to base ones decisions on, but it is so in this event! He is waiting because when he does send more troops, as he will, he will be able to explain it as if he had been "forced to make the decision", and not by his inner circle or the left. The will atone him of the decision, so to speak. To those on the right he will be able to say to them "see, I sent more", hoping they too will see him as decisive. He knows in Politics, he can't get re-elected if he makes the decision too fast or wrong and riles the voters! Again, pandering!!!!!
It is even sadder that his waiting is placing ever more danger on those troops already on the ground. His politics is he's playing with their very lives. It's been said "The hardest job of the commander in chief is to place troops in harms way".
Now ask yourself what you would do...send more or bring them all home. Procrastinating, debating, playing politics, doing nothing - whatever you want to call it, that is not the answer. In fact, it is perhaps the "easiest job" for this commander in chief.
Either bring them all home or give them everything they need to win! Make a decision!
Here is my prediction: He will send more troops later, much later! Here is why I think he will send more and why he has not yet sent them. (When he sends them it will take months to get them in place)
First, his procrastination is indicative of his inexperience as a military commander. As seasoned commanders know, you have to choose, oftentimes without all the information at hand, but you have to choose, or the enemy will choose for you. Second, he is listening too much to his inner circle who are even less experienced on these matters. Third, his inner circle has told him to fear those that elected him to the job based on his campaign promises. In other words, this is all about pandering!
It is so sad to use politics to base ones decisions on, but it is so in this event! He is waiting because when he does send more troops, as he will, he will be able to explain it as if he had been "forced to make the decision", and not by his inner circle or the left. The will atone him of the decision, so to speak. To those on the right he will be able to say to them "see, I sent more", hoping they too will see him as decisive. He knows in Politics, he can't get re-elected if he makes the decision too fast or wrong and riles the voters! Again, pandering!!!!!
It is even sadder that his waiting is placing ever more danger on those troops already on the ground. His politics is he's playing with their very lives. It's been said "The hardest job of the commander in chief is to place troops in harms way".
Now ask yourself what you would do...send more or bring them all home. Procrastinating, debating, playing politics, doing nothing - whatever you want to call it, that is not the answer. In fact, it is perhaps the "easiest job" for this commander in chief.
Either bring them all home or give them everything they need to win! Make a decision!
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