According to news reports, the left is not happy:
"The anti-war left is turning on the president it helped put into office, launching a counteroffensive against President Obama's decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan." (FOX)
Frankly, I don't get it!
Didn't these "yes we can" screamers hear their candidate say that Afghanistan was the central place in the war on terror?
For much of Pres Bush's second term, the Dems told us that Afghanistan was "the good war".
They told us that Pres Bush "took his eye off the ball" when he invaded Iraq.
So why is any Dem surprised that Pres BO would send more troops to Afghanistan?
At the same time, did Dem voters think that candidate BO was just talking and not serious about sending troops to Afghanistan?
I think that the answer is "yes"! I think that many of them thought that candidate BO was just playing partisan games with "the good war" vs "the bad war"!
P.S. Bob Herbert, a well known member of the left, has an interesting perspective on Pres BO's decision:
"The tougher choice for the president would have been to tell the public that the U.S. is a nation faced with terrible troubles here at home and that it is time to begin winding down a war that veered wildly off track years ago.
But that would have taken great political courage."
Obama has no political courage? There is a growing sentiment in the left that Pres BO is weak and will not stand up to anyone!
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All of us remember how Dems cynically attacked Pres Bush for Iraq and said that Afghanistan was being neglected.
Byron York develops "the good war vs the bad war" game played by the Dems during the Bush's second term:
"If the base didn’t support it, then why did candidates promise it?
Because Democratic voters and candidates were playing a complex game.
Nearly all of them hated the war in Iraq and wanted to pull Americans out of that country. But they were afraid to appear soft on national security, so they pronounced the smaller conflict in
Afghanistan one they could support.
Many of them didn’t, really, but for political expediency they supported candidates who said they did.
Thus the party base signed on to a good war-bad war strategy."
(http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Obama-keeps-his-Afghan-promise_-but-Dems-crumble-8608879-78183117.html)
The left is mad (cont)!
Check out Keith Obermann:
"So, much of the change for which you were elected, Sir, has thus far been understandably, if begrudgingly, tabled, delayed, made more open-ended. But patience ebbs, Mr. President. And while the first one thousand key decisions of your presidency were already made about the economy, the first public, easy-to-discern, mouse-or-elephant kind of decision comes tomorrow night at West Point at eight o'clock."
(http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34209743/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/)
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