President Obama’s public comments related to the decade-long occupation of Afghanistan have never exactly been internally consistent, but today he seemed to go entirely off script, sending the most mixed messages yet on the conflict.
In one segment of comments, Obama termed the Afghan War “over” and promised that Afghanistan would now enjoy a “transformational decade of peace” starting with the summit. In another, he warned of “hard days ahead” in the war, urging NATO to remain united on keeping the fight going.
“We still have a lot of work to do,” Obama added, while insisted that the war had made “excellent progress” and that he was “on the right track.” On May 1 President Obama signed a deal to keep US ground troops in the nation through 2024.
But today the 2024 deadline was completely missing from the dialogue, and the president kept presenting 2014 as the end of the “combat mission.” As with Iraq, we have seen that the US is more than willing to redefine troops as “non-combat” while continuing to engage in combat missions, and this may well be what we have to look forward to in the Afghan War from 2015-2024.
President Obama signing to Keep Troops in Iraq through 2024 should be heralded as a landmark in American determination to protect the free world from Al Queda, Communism and Anarachy. We have signed a contract with Iraq and that contract could be extended indefinetly.
What if we had the foresight to sign the same Contract with Vietnam? Instead of turning over Vietnam to the communists we could still be there protecting our freedom and preventing communism from dominating the world. Just think how humbled Putin would be now if we had stayed, and how careful China would be about thinking twice when lending us money.
President Obama is a visionary, a seer and shaman of political expertise and skill.
His manuevering America into position as the defender of freedom, democracy and the American Way, much like Superman did in the 1950's.
The Afghan farmers, bone menders and bakers who fight for Al Queda at night better think twice in the face of American determination.
Let's not lose Afghanistan like we did Vietnam. In my opinion there's still time to save Vietnam, but it would require a massive effort on the part of the American people, we would have to sacrafice, we would have to bear down and I just don't think Obama could convince them to do that. THat's why I'm voting for George Romney's son. I think he will.
For those that think that Romney is the only one that flim flams. Ha! Whatever the oven mitts knows, he probably learned by watching this way flip flopping.