The AfPak Affair

100 days in and one thing is clear, or putting it another way, many things are not clear.

Obama is naïve. The man is stupid. The man is a liar. Or, all of the above or, maybe a combination of two or more including other possibilities I guess. I have my suspicions but let me present a case and you decide.

From the very first time it became clear that he was going to take a run for the Presidency, I remember two things. He promised “change” and he promised to end the deployment of American troops in Iraq.

Now, perhaps the “change” he promised was no more than a “change” from President Bush. Well, let’s be magnanimous, he did that. He detests this country and apologizes for it wherever he goes to anybody who will listen and sometimes to nobody in particular. He embraces our enemies and snubs our friends. He detests our Constitution and, as I noted in my last post he, and his lawyer friends feel constrained by it. Good! That was the idea from the get-go. But, about that, either he’s naïve or he’s stupid …………

The next recurring theme was that “we need a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq”. Well that doesn’t seem to be happening either as Hillary was in Baghdad yesterday proclaiming the opposite. So, about that, he was naïve or stupid or, to use a Winston Churchill expression, he was guilty of a terminological inexactitude. For any readers from Rio Linda, that translates into lying.

But, Obamaniacs, take heart. Now you could have your very own war. For a start the C-in-C has ordered more troops into Afghanistan and make no mistake, they’ll be our troops. The Europeans et al turned him down flat. And now add the surge by the Taliban to within 60 miles of Islamabad, the Pakistani capital. And the Taliban has offered Osama bin-Laden safe haven in the area of Pakistan they control. So will Obama pursue him there? So now we’ll have an "AfPak War", Obama’s war? A war where no “collateral damage” occurs? A war where no innocent men, women and children die? No dismembered babies? Naturally, because this will be an Obama war.

Where is the outrage from the liberal media? Where are the marchers chanting, "One, Two, Three, Four. We don’t want your bloody war”. But this is Obama’s war and while he’s fighting it with troops he detests and while he’s cutting their funding as much as he can in order to fund his domestic plans. He also wants to talk to the “moderate” Taliban…….. Now that would be a great idea except for the unfortunate fact that there is no such critter according to the people in the region.

OK. I’ve convinced myself all over again.

Obama is all of the above …………