But That Would Require A Spine...

Here's a hoot: The idea that Barack Obama would forcefully fight for anything, including the war in Afghanistan:

The White House is facing mounting pressure from lawmakers to work harder to rally flagging public support for the war in Afghanistan.

With casualties rising, the administration is struggling to persuade voters that the war can be won or is worth the human and financial costs. Afghanistan is President Barack Obama's top foreign-policy priority, but recent polls show that a majority of voters oppose the war for the first time since the conflict began eight years ago.

If Obama applied the same skillz he used on his top domestic-policy priority to his top foreign-policy priority, he'd be sure to rally the citizenry. Wouldn't he?

Some Republicans say they wish Mr. Obama would make a stronger case for the U.S. role in Afghanistan. Asked recently on CNN's "State of the Union" whether the president had sufficiently explained U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, Sen. Richard Lugar (R., Ind.) said, "No."

"The president really has to face the fact that his own leadership here is critical," said Mr. Lugar, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations panel.

Leadership? Good luck with that.

Comments

[Masturbatin' Pete]

It's not like the left (which of course includes Obama) was ever particularly interested in fighting in Afghanistan. For about seven years, Afghanistan has been the left's way of criticizing Bush for Iraq without sounding like wimpy pacifists. It's not that they were interested in Afghanistan; it's just that when it comes to bashing Bush, any weapon at hand will do."We're not against all wars. We're just against dumb, wasteful wars! Afghanistan is the GOOD WAR, Chimpy McBushitler. You should be fighting there. Let's get those terrorists!"

But now that the Democrats have actual responsibility for the wars, and Afghanistan is no longer useful for bashing Bush, suddenly Afghanistan doesn't seem that important.

[Simon]

Right on Pete - the left used support for Afghanistan as a way of evading being criticised as isolationist.

1 year ago in Iraq this would have been a war crime -

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=105263&sectionid=351020403

[JeffS]

I'm afraid that you're right, Pete. More to the point, wars are won or lost by will. The Dhimmicrats in general -- and Obama in particular -- have no backbone, let alone will.

Unless Obama mans up (I know, I know, but I said "unless"), the Afghanistan war will end badly.

[Mike C.]

Hmm... I am seeing leadership here. After all, one individual lemming has to be the first one over the cliff...

[Tim]

Teh Messiah's in a tough spot with this one. Say nothing, and support gradually erodes away. Spek up about it, and support plummets. What's an incompetent, untrustworthy neophyte to do?