Weeks have slipped into months since General McChrystal, NATO commander in Afghanistan, told President Obama that the situation was getting perilous and that he needed more troops. As our President gallivants on yet another world tour while he "struggles" to make the right decision, the following thought occurred to me: "If President Obama had been given the opportunity, would he have saved General Custer at Little Bighorn?" Many people are not aware that General Crook and more than 1,000 soldiers were only thirty miles away from Little Bighorn at the time of Custer's Last Stand. There are those who say that even General Crook's troops would not have been enough to save Custer and it is a moot point anyway because in 1876 thirty miles distance may as well have been three hundred miles. For the sake of argument, though, let us suppose General Crook had fifty thousand men, dozens of cannons, and an array of Gatling guns - and the Battle of Little Bighorn had begun...(Read Full Post)