October 30, 2009
The Blame Bush Doctrine strikes again
I thought Obama said that they were going to take responsibility. I guess Biden didn’t get the message:
Vice President Biden on Friday fired back at criticism from his predecessor, former Vice President Cheney, that President Obama is “dithering” over his decision about whether to send up to 40,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan.
“I like Dick Cheney personally but I really don’t care what Dick Cheney thinks and I’m not sure a lot of Americans do,” Biden said in an exclusive interview with CNN. “Look at the policy they left us, look at the policy of neglect they left us in Afghanistan, look at the policy we inherited in terms of their foreign policy…I think the President is doing exactly what any president should do.”
October has turned out to be the deadliest month of the war so far, and Biden said the president needs the appropriate time to get the strategy right. He said the situation on the ground has changed because the Taliban is “taking advantage of a chaotic election process that took place in Afghanistan.”
Biden added, “Any thoughtful president should be sitting down saying, ‘Okay what is the strategy we have to employ with these changed circumstances?’ And then look at the tactic that will best accomplish that. The President has great faith in the military.”
We get it, Bush is the Devil and everything is his fault. I’m so tired of hearing this garbage. No matter what situation it is that Obama can’t seem to make a decision on or can’t seem to make the right decision on, it’s always back to blaming Bush. I realize that Obama has the mind set of a child, but Biden is a grown man and should man up and take responsibility.
I’m sick of hearing how Obama is giving this the thought that it deserves. He is not going to lightly send our uniformed men and women into harms way. The only problem is, while he goes golfing, our service members are dying. They need reinforcements. Obama has been told in order to succeed we need more troops on the ground. What is there to think about? I thought this was the “right war.” I thought this was the war we’re supposed to win. Isn’t that what Obama said?
It’s not like you wake up one morning and magically you’re the president. It is something Obama campaigned for for two years. He told us he understood the situation we were in and he was going to fix it. I don’t care what Bush did, anymore. It is irrelevant. He was elected on the promise he was going to change things for the better. The only thing that seems to have changed for the better is date night with his wife.
Even if we all believe that everything is Dubya’s fault, what does that matter? Does that change the situation? Does that make our troops safer? Does blaming Bush win us the war and bring our soldiers home safely? Because if it doesn’t, blaming Bush for our current problems is just a waste of time. And, at a time when our military members are losing their lives, I don’t think we really have time to waste.
Like I said the other day, this is Obama’s 3 a.m. call and he’s refusing to answer the phone. We can’t wish the situation away and we can’t blame it away. This is the job of the president and he needs to step up and make a decision. Is this a war he is committed to winning? And, if it is, is he willing to listen to our military leaders and do what they say we need to do?
The real question is, if this is the war we’re supposed to be fighting and Obama is committed to winning it, what is there to think about? Are there other voices out there saying we can turn this around without putting more troops on the ground? All I have heard is that the situation is deteriorating and without more troops we will not be able to reverse this trend. So, if Obama is dedicated to winning this war there is no decision to make. We need to send more troops. No photo op at Dover is going to change that. Our men and women are dying over there, either way.
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