AFGHANISTAN WAR 8 YEARS OLD TODAY!

I've just been listening to the Pentagon spokesman doubletalk about the Afghanistan war! He is saying that General McChrystal's request for troops is still going through the "chain of command", which apparently is a very slow process! He couldn't say for sure where that request was! He says it comes down to what strategy the President is going to have for Afghanistan. Why doesn't the President have a strategy?

Then the President spokesman, Robert Gibbs, says that the President asked to see General McChrystals report last Thursday. I remember President Bush having a DAILY meeting with his Secretary of Defense about the workings of the wars. I find it hard to believe that the current Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, wouldn't have taken this request to the President before now! Unless, the President couldn't find time, what with all his other pressing public appearances. This is just a tactic to try to protect the President from the public's dissatisfaction of his handling of the Afghan war.

We've been in Afghanistan for 8 years! This was an issue in the campaign and it's been an issue during the last year since President Obama took office. So why doesn't the President have a strategy now? I seem to remember him saying in several speeches that we were there to win!

We're getting a lot of doubletalk and excuses, but it all comes down to indecision and an adverse attitude toward this war by the President and the liberals. All this just gives the Taliban and Al Qaeda more encouragement. The Taliban watches Fox News too!