Rick Raw: For God’s Sake, Obama, Make a Decision

By Rick Grant Commentary rickgrant01@comcast.net

Frankly, I’m disappointed in President Obama for taking an inordinate amount of time to make key decisions. It shows me that Obama is being overcautious and wishy-washy. By wavering on key decisions, Obama’s leadership is in question.

In regard to sending more troops to Afghanistan, Obama has been meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff for weeks. His head general in Afghanistan, Gen. McCrystal has been begging for more troops for months. For God sake, Obama, give him more troops.

Never mind all the complex ramifications of sending more troops. Gen McCrystal needs more troops for one important reason–to insure the safety of his other troops already outnumbered by the enemy. Give him the troops and worry about all the other issues later.

Just today, Senator Kerry was saying that we need to establish a stable government before sending more troops. Hogwash! Stabilizing the government of Afghanistan could take years. Meanwhile, our troops are dying because they are weakened by the lack of reinforcements to take over hot combat positions.

Every day, the enemy is overwhelming our patrols and planting endless IEDs. Every day more U.S.soldiers are blown-up by these cowardly devices. We need more bomb disposal personnel to defuse these makeshift bombs.

Indeed, Obama and his advisors can talk about the complexities of sending more troops ad nauseam, but the fact is, he needs to make a decision. Obama may have won Noble Peace Prize, but he’s not showing strong leadership. The Noble Prize is like a ball and chain around Obama’s neck.

More significantly, Obama hasn’t made good on his campaign promises, such as ending "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" in the military. He promised the gay community that he would end this policy right after he was elected. Then he waffled like a weak leader. Sure, when he makes a decision, there are consequences, good and bad, but he can’t make everyone happy. So just do it.

Like the disastrous policies of President Johnson and his Secretary of State, Robert McNamara during the Vietnam war, Obama is trying to micro-manage the Afghan War. It didn’t work then, and it won’t work now. Let the generals run the war. They’re on the ground and in touch with their squad leaders on up the chain of command. We must give the troops more of everything to fight his important war.

This is a new form of warfare that requires all our resources to take the battle to the enemy. These evil bastards killed over 3,000 of our citizens. They are not going to stop killing Westerners, especially Americans. They don’t mind dying. And their radical cause is growing in Pakistan.

Since 9/11, there have been numerous terrorist attacks in Great Britain, Spain, and African countries. If we don’t kill the jihadists in their homeland, then they will just move to other countries like the Sudan, that is a lawless land of warlords and strife–a perfect setting for al Qaeda to operate freely.

Recently, in our country, the FBI broke up cells planning attacks on soft targets like shopping malls and sports events. They’ll keep coming until they’re all dead or driven into hiding.

This war against terrorism requires new thinking and a new outlook. We can’t think in terms of winning or losing a war. This is a global struggle. We must think only of exterminating these vermin. As long as they are alive, we will never win anything, except individual battles. We must track them down and kill them where ever they exist-- in America or foreign lands. We’ll probably be fighting them into the foreseeable future.