Clipmarks | Vietnam ClipsIn Which Obama Has A General Problem, Just Like A Real President*clipped by: merrieclippers remarks: The tug-o-war playground politics of the matter aside, there is still the fact of war in Afghanistan, a persistent global threat, and the rapidly diminishing credibility of the United States as a stalwart, moral force in the world, from the limp handling of Iran to the delivery of tribute to Vladimir Putin, and now the dawdling and dithering over the erstwhile good war. For all their squawking about us, the Euros don?t need us to be another EU member. They need someone to do the dirty work. Ditto the Arabs. China and Russia have got to be enjoying this, though. On second thought, there is a sort of double-reverse presidential precedent to this crisis. It?s Obama as McClellan. Not exactly Lincolnesque, but very Lincoln-proximate. Totally related: Victor Davis Hanson at NRO looks at Two-Front Wars, Theirs and Ours and comes away with something other than the currently fashionable doom-and-gloom mongering. It?s al-Qaeda after eight years of war, on the ropes and desperate. Roggio at Long War points to and discusses a McClatchy report that McChrystal is ready to resign if not given the resources to prosecute the war in Afghanistan. I?m going to guess Obama and Emanuel are not going to take kindly to being pressured, but it puts them in a spot. They could always pre-emptively fire him, I suppose. But firing two generals who tell you that you need more, including the guy you hired to tell you how to do it with less, starts to look like a crisis. A grossly mishandled one. This is not exactly a Lincolnian crisis of generalship or a Truman-MacArthur one, either. Nor, contrary to all the Vietnam tooth-gnashing, is this LBJ and Westmoreland. It isn?t even a Bush wartime leadership crisis. Bush always played to win. He just needed to figure out how and find the right general for the job. This one is all Obama. And it is not a crisis of generalship. It is a crisis of presidential leadership. I am in love with CLIPMARKSclipped by: varquazarclippers remarks: clip...clip...clip...I used to like collecting some news paper cuttings of comics strips and other stuffs...but that was when I was a child...today I do the same with clipmarks!!!! super great... Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de |
2009/09/24
EasyRSS: Clipmarks | Vietnam Clips
