Months after his commander in theater said "give me 40,000 troops or we may lose President Obama, having met now eight times with his "war cabinet" has come up with the final word:
"Let me get back to you on that."
The planned to leak to see how the People (especially the kook fringe on the left) would react, is that he doesn't like any of the proposed options. I know I'm not a PolySci major, but I am guessing the options are:
No, what he wants to do is make sure when, exactly, he can foist Afghanistan off on to the government of Afghanistan.
VFD, Isn't that the whole idea?
Right: get the hell out of there and let the locals deal with their own problems. Only one problem: We didn't "win" yet. Oh wait, that's three problems: We have NO DEFINED GOAL in Afghanistan, and our President has already stated he's "not interested in victory."*
If we had a definite goal then we would be able to tell when we had won and then we could talk about turning the country over to Afghan rule. We have no goal. There is no winning.
If we're not going to win, what are we doing there? Is it a grist mill? Are we interested in supplying the local dung beetles with American flesh to feast on? Why do you still have men in-theater if you don't know what you want them to do? Give them an objective, give them the support they need to meet it, and they will win. Otherwise, GTFO and cut our losses, and we'll say "I FUCKING TOLD YOU SO!" when we get struck in the USA by a jihadist attack from Afghanistan, or when the Tangos finally take over Pakistan and send us a Pakistani nuke on a cargo ship.
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dith·er: (dĭth'ər)
n. A state of indecisive agitation.
intr.v. dith·ered, dith·er·ing, dith·ers
To be nervously irresolute in acting or doing.
[Alteration of didder, from Middle English didderen, to tremble.]
(The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language)
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Obama is DITHERING, whether the giggler behind the Press Secretary's microphone likes the term or not.
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Officer Jones: Dispatch, 535 here, I need backup and I need backup right now.
Dispatcher: Roger 535, I'll talk to the Chief about it.
. . .
Officer Jones: Hey Dispatch, 535 I need my backup or I'm going to get greased!
Dispatcher: Roger 535 the Chief says he'll get back to you on that tomorrow. You just keep doing what you're doing.
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*sure he was talking about Iran. You know what Ronaldus Maximus said when asked about the global threat to American security in his day? "We win, they lose." That was leadership. What we have now, isn't.
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