PrintNovember 29, 2009
Obama's Deadly Strategy of "Compromise"
The announcement of the announcement of President Obama's decision to make a decision to possibly, maybe increase troops in Afghanistan comes across with all the power and majesty of Churchill's "We Shall Fight Them" speech. Or not so much.The setting for the absurd public "leak" of yet another prime-time speech came across with all the authenticity of one of those fake documentaries like The Office or The Modern Family. It was contrived, slightly awkward, and ultimately laughable. It would be even funnier if so many people's lives didn't rest on Obama's decisions. Such is the nature of life while living in the magical land of Hopenchange.The risible projection of Obama as a commanding military leader, while attractive to the sycophantic, navel-gazing press, contrasted mightily with his simultaneously fawned-over persona of a pensive, cerebral man of the world. It is mighty hard to imagine George S. Patton hemming and hawing as if he were lecturing at an academic...(Read Full Article)
