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2009
Soap Box Archives
War During the Bush Administration, the mainstream media hovered over every decision and every move Bush made like a bunch of buzzards. Printing and broadcasting anything they could possibly perceive to be negative and make the Bush Administration look bad, whether valid or not. They screamed about mistakes made in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Well people, the truth of the matter is that there has never been a war where mistakes were not made. War is an ever-changing situation fought by unpredictable human beings who are plotting against you every day, coming up with new ideas and constantly changing the way they attack you. Both of the wars we are currently engaged in are different from any the U.S.A. has ever fought. There is no battlefield, the enemy looks exactly like the civilian population, they send their young people on suicide missions with promised rewards of a male dominated paradise and the enemy has no rules of engagement. Of course America has rules of engagement. We take the greatest pains to protect non-combatants. But there is no way to avoid occasional collateral damage when a shooting war is being waged in the midst of a civilian population. It is going to happen, sad but true. Well media, it's time to expose some other people's mistakes. I wonder if you will. George Bush is no longer in office and Obama's policy on the war in Afghanistan seems to be vacillating. He has talked to his commanding general in Afghanistan face to face two times in the last couple of months. Does that make sense? He refuses to give an answer as to whether he will send more troops or will not send more troops and this attitude creates two huge problems. 1. It looks as if the President does not fully back the troops and what they're doing which has to create morale problems in the field. 2. It makes the President look as if he has no idea what he is doing. In my opinion both of these things could well be true. I'm not at all sure that Barack Hussein Obama is comfortable fighting a war against Muslims and from what I've seen so far it appears to me that he is simply overwhelmed by the job and can't make the important decisions concerning the fighting of either war. Of course Obama knows nothing about war and nobody expected him to. But we do have the right to expect him to surround himself with people who have expertise in executing a war. Instead he has surrounded himself with Ivy League intellectuals who know less about the situation than he does. If the general on the ground in Afghanistan says he needs more troops to win the war why is he even questioned by a President who has absolutely no military background and a bunch of elitist snobs who don't know a trigger guard from a firing pin? How many people in the Obama Administration have had military experience? I dare say you could probably count them on one hand. So where do Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Rahm Emanuel and the rest of these Pennsylvania Avenue desk jockeys get the idea that they know what's happening in Afghanistan better that General McChrystal? We have a dangerous problem here. Obama is a vacillator. Do you remember the incident off the coast of Africa when the pirates seized the American ship and some of the crew? Do you remember that we had Navy Seals on the scene that could have taken out the pirates in the blink of an eye? Do you remember that it took the President somewhere around three days to give the order to shoot? What if someone fires a nuclear weapon at America? The President is the only one who can give the order to retaliate. Would he be able to make that decision in time or would the land of the free and the home of the brave be reduced to cinders without ever firing a shot. He who hesitates is lost. What do you think? Pray for our troops, and for our country. God Bless America Charlie Daniels
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