Leave military decisions to Generals

[Clipper]

It is time for our compromising president to realize that our military decisions need to be made by military leaders, schooled and experienced in such matters.

Obama wants to "negotiate" every issue with everyone involved. He always wants to only come "half way".

The troop levels in Afghanistan are not an issue that can be negotiated and compromised on, while young American lives are at risk if not supported fully.

He can play his political games with issues of legislation and healthcare issues, but military decisions need to be left to military leaders.

If generals want 65,000 troops, we need to send them 65,000 troops. I am confident that good military planning went into reaching that figure. I am also sure that a general responsible for the lives of those young soldiers is not going to risk any higher number than necessary.

This arrogant young president, with zero military experience or service, is playing a very dangerous game of Texas Hold'em with your son's and husbands as chips while his military planning and strategy experience level only qualifies him to play old maid or go fish.

The Washington post says today that the generals want 65,000 and Obama wants to negotiate it down to 45,000, while Biden wants to send only a fraction of that number.

Don't take my opinions of Obama and the democrats as a lack of patriotism. There have been many democrats over the years that I respected and trusted. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are not included in that category.

My worries are for our security and safety. I don't trust our country's safety to a president that is too young, too naive and too over confident to serve as a world leader. To a president who thinks he knows all, and will pay no heed to history nor advice from those he has hired to advise.

The white house reports today that it has notified Afghan leaders that American presence is not an open ended issue, and that our involvement will eventually come to an end. I agree one hundred percent with that statement, but we need to equip and support those troops serving there to the maximum until that mission is complete.

[clarencebunsen]

Strategy according to Yoda:
Do or do not. There is no try.
I wish we had learned this in SE Asia.

[Clipper]

I would be curious as to whether other Viet Vets feel the same uncertainty with the security of our nation with the seemingly passive stance that Obama is taking with our enemies, and his lackluster support of our troops and the war on terror.

Am I the only one that feels that we must win the war on terror, one way or the other, and that we cannot back down or "withdraw" under fire. We CANNOT let another generation of American Soldiers wake up one morning to find that all of their fallen comrades and those with life altering wounds, both physical and emotional, have suffered those wounds in vain.

When I first was treated at a VA center in Syracuse NY, there were mostly Korean War and WWII vets enrolled in the programs there. Now when I go to the VA Hospital for an appointment, the majority of the patients are my own age, and now are beginning to show increased numbers of veterans of the latest war. Soldiers and Vets that are only the age of my sons, and scarred for life in the name of freedom.

There are still veterans my own age, that were not as fortunate as I. Veterans that suffered from PTSD, undiagnosed, and exhibited as alcoholism and drug abuse. PTSD that has caused abnormal depression, inability to hold a job, or to form a lasting relationship or marriage. These guys were not as fortunate as I, and did not find sobriety or treatment. They are still wandering through life with the images that they have of the attrocities of war. While I built a life and was able to go on, they still are living in the 60's and early 70's. They still flashback, and have nightmares. They still drink their way to sleep, and drink or do drugs to forget the horrors. They are still living in homeless shelters and in VA domicilaries because they are victims of a war that our government took us into, and then would not let us win. They are not privileged to have come home to victory parades and ticker tape as our fathers were.

Can we afford another generation of defeated soldiers, wandering through life bearing the scars of war, while living with the fact that our government surrendered to the enemy and withdrew from the battle without victory?

I truly fear that if we don't finish what we have started in the war on terror, and if we don't have the balls to stay the course and route it out where they live, we will see that 9-11 was only a preview of the horrors that will come.

We showed Nazi Germany and Japan what happens when you screw with the USA, and we took it to them in THEIR backyard. We cannot back down and wait for them to bring it to OUR yard.

I think that Obama needs to stand strong and unbending to the dictators of the world and quit kissing asses and trying to negotiate with those that are not capable of fair negotiation. We need a president that will tell those despots that we don't play games with terrorists. We are strong, we are determined, and we will squash them like a bug if that is what it takes to preserve freedom.

We need to rebuild our military might, and defense budgets, and be prepared to defend our own shores if necessary. We need to realize that we are the strongest military power in the world, and if we have to, we can flex that muscle in the name of freedom and right. I think that we need to bring back the draft, and that every American man needs to experience military training and learn to defend himself and his country. We are becoming a country of wusses and couch potatoes. We want the freedoms, but we don't want to sacrifice the service to earn them.

[snickers]

We'll have to wait until our Apologist-In-Chief completes his impending grovelling tour of Southeast Asia.

[dgriffin]

Nov 11, 2009 22:49:51 GMT -5 Clipper said:

We are becoming a country of wusses and couch potatoes.

I BEG your pardon! I USED to be a couch potato. Today I am an Ergonomic Computer Chair Potato. I get my physical workout crawling under my desk looking for lost CD's and exercise my mind by deciphering Corner's punctuation-free sentences.