If I wanted to present a single military strategic plan to ensure failure of my mission, I would tell the enemy what my plans are. I guess you’d call me a fool, and you’d be right! You’d be justified to consider me dangerous, and fire me and send me to an assignment where I can do the least damage. Like the streets of Chicago.

What kind of fools are we to put up with this stuff from our own president (and Congress)? The best we can expect from President Obama’s stated plan is more dead soldiers and a guaranteed victory for our opponents if they just wait it out. What is wrong with people? Are we so afraid to call a spade a spade that we’d sacrifice a city or two before we’d speak up and take action?

Strategic stupidity aside, some congressmen have wondered how to pay for our Afghanistan military operation. I guess they can’t put 2 and 2 together and get 4! They’ve voted themselves nearly $800 billion, ostensibly as an economic stimulus but still have $700 billion of it left. Why? To buy votes with? Is anyone accountable for it?

Someone ran the numbers and figured that this Democrat “slush fund” would pay for nearly eight years of military operations in Afghanistan. I’d guess 10 years, but what do I know? That’s if we had a sensible military strategy! To date, I don’t see any semblance of wisdom in the cadre of clunkheads the president surrounded himself with, any one of which would make you rich if you could buy him for what he’s worth and sell him for what he thinks he’s worth!

Folks, in the deck of Leadership, the cards are stacked against us!
D.D. Todd
Kempner