President Obama—and the entire country—are struggling over Afghanistan…
No one can decide exactly just what our mission is - or should be.
So here is what we - as a nation - should do:
The President calls into the Oval Office the Joint Chiefs, the Head of National Intelligence and the Director of Central Intelligence, the SecDef and Generals Petreus and McChrystal.
They all sit down and the President gives them their mission: “Gentlemen, here is what we are going to do: we are going to devote every dollar, every soldier, every intelligence asset, every drop of political capital - EVERYTHING - on getting and killing Osama Bin Laden. Period. Nothing else matters. If we have to go into Pakistan to get him, do it! We are in there secretly anyway.
“This was why we went to Afghanistan originally - and the American people want to know why - after eight years - we have failed to do what we said we would do.
“So, we are going to get him. This single action will decapitate Al Qaeda and render it a weakened, disorganized entity that will then no longer be a threat to us. There is no other leader who can rally that disparate group of killers. And we are not going to stand for a man who murdered almost 3000 people to taunt us in audio and video tapes - more than eight years after the 9/11 attacks.
“And then we are going to pack up and leave. We are not there to build schools or to stop their narcotics trade or to buck up an inherently corrupt society and a thoroughly crooked regime.
“We are not the world’s policeman. And we can’t afford to try to build another country when our own in in such disarray.
“If any of you cannot accept this new mission, then please say so now - and resign. We will find other officers who will embrace this policy.
“We seek justice for the murders of 9/11. And we will get it.
“And, if in two months we haven’t gotten Bin Laden, I may very well make changes in our senior military and intelligence leadership and keep making changes until this mass murderer is brought to justice.”
If the President said that - and meant it instead of paying lip service to this mission - then we would succeed. That is the mission Americans can unite behind.
At the same time the White House has declared war on Fox - with more passion than their commitment to get Bin Laden. This anti-Fox diatribe is a stupid political maneuver. Sure, the liberal “base” hates Fox, but Obama has those voters anyway.
Why not, if you are Obama and his surrogates, go on Fox as much as possible and try to woo and schmooze and seduce as much of that audience as possible?
Supposedly Obama believes he can win over anyone he talks to. That is why he wants to talk to Iran and Hugo Chavez and the North Koreans. But he won’t talk to the Americans who watch Fox?
Something is wrong here.
Obama has a thin skin, which is evidence that he was “given” the Presidency without really earning it. The same applied to G.W. Bush - who was a legacy all his life, cashing in on having the same name as his father.
Candidates who get high office the old fashioned way - they earn it - are not going to turn down air time and a chance to convince voters to vote for them!
Team Obama will rue the day they declared war on Fox.
