This one column by Col. Ralph Peters will tell you more than any 10 by others. He has been tough on Bush, Bush's opponents, and now on Obama. Read the whole article to see why he is so credible:
"O'S AFGHAN WOES: WHITE HOUSE STIFLES GENERAL"
"THE classified status report from Afghanistan by Gen. Stanley McChrystal was censored by the White House before its submission. As a result, it's all bun and no burger.
"According to multiple (angry) sources, McChrystal -- our top soldier on the ground -- intended to ask for 28,000 more US troops. A presidential hatchet man directed the general not to make the request: Troop increases would be "addressed separately."
"Worried about his poll numbers, our president's making a bad situation worse. He's given McChrystal the impossible mission of turning Afghan Flintstones into Jetsons, while starving him of means. This violates a fundamental principle of the American way of war...
"The result? We've got a general who's been gagged, a president trapped by his campaign promises, a muddled mission, crippling restrictions on our troops, a resurgent enemy, a worthless Afghan government -- and an AWOL establishment media that, after hammering the Bush administration, gives Obama a pass on American casualties.
"Meanwhile, Iraq -- which genuinely matters -- goes ignored. Make no mistake: Obama's made Afghanistan the real "war of choice."
"Yet Afghanistan is worthless. Worthless. Repairing Afghan irrigation ditches has zero effect on al Qaeda's will to win. Killing terrorists is the only thing that works. And there isn't a single al Qaeda terrorist left in Afghanistan...
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09032009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/os_afghan_woes_187815.htm?page=0
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