Just hours after President Barack Obama announced his Afghanistan escalation strategy’s key tenets on Tuesday night (30,000 troops, pullout to begin July 2011), top administration officials were already throwing around suggestions that neither of these was what it seemed.
Ambassador Eikenberry presented Obama’s 30,000 number as “up to 35,000” yesterday, and today Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that the president had given him flexibility to send an additional 3,000 troops as he sees fit.
The July 2011 deadline seems even less convincing, as Secretary Gates told the Senate yesterday that this was just an estimate. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs responded by saying this was not true, even going so far as to say after his press conference that he checked again with President Obama and could assure that the date was “etched in stone.”
Now officials are again insisting that this is simply not true. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insisted that the date was not locked in, and Admiral Michael Mullen said the official date could still happen but that they might decided to remove virtually no troops then, which is essentially what has happened in Iraq’s “drawdown.” Secretary Gates too has spoken of an “elongated” pullout taking several years.
President Obama has capitulated to Pentagon demands. He does not have the backbone to stand up and do the right thing. We will be in Afghanistan until the US economy is in complete ruin.
Why is everyone refusing to discuss the obvious fact? Obama is a well-meaning African-American raised in a country where the overwhelming majority of authority figures are White. He has been intimidated by White economists, White generals, White advisers. Deep in his mindset is the conviction that Whites must know what they are saying, what they are talking about, what they are planning. So even the fact that we are wasting American lives, American dollars and America's future in meaningless current wars which will be only preludes to future such wars, Obama goes along with the burden of belief he has inherited as a Black man in a racist America. He'll keep right on blindly doing what his White advisers claim is the right thing to do.
Gates and Clinton are openly contradicting Obama's own public statements, telling the world he really means something else than what he said. If I were Obama, I'd be raging mad. I'd be planning a public excoriation of the rebellious subordinates followed by their immediate termination. And yet what has Obama done? He gets his press secretary to reconfirm Obama's position, assuring us he really meant what he said. It becomes clearer all the time that Obama really has been whipped by all of his advisors and cabinet appointees, plus the Pentagon, and that they regard him as a spineless tool for them to manipulate. In such a situation they will get virtually everything they want and we will get the bill and the fallout.
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