Conservative Rumblings

Love it. The Left is gearing up to eat its own.

Obama is days away from announcing a new Afghan strategy, but his immediate battle could come from liberals who are vowing to “spank” the president for committing tens of thousands of more troops to the eight-year conflict.

In a prime-time speech Tuesday from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Obama is expected to announce that he is sending up to 35,000 additional troops to Afghanistan beginning next year.

The figure is short of the 40,000 troops his top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, requested — but enough to anger many congressional Democrats who oppose any potential troop surge, arguing that the mission is too expensive and lacks a clear objective.

“I think there will be some disillusionment within his base,” said Paul Kawika Martin, political director for Peace Action, a grassroots organization, who added that thousands of activists are planning to protest following the president’s announcement.

“We’re going to spank him for sending more troops,” he told FoxNews.com, adding that they may also “thank him” if he announces a quick exit strategy.

This is amazing on two counts. First, it’s obvious the Far Left wants us to lose this war. Why, you ask? Simple: they’ll blame it on Bush. The deaths of American solders mean NOTHING to the radical left. They think nothing of using our brave soldiers as political capital. They want to see us lose, pure and simple.

Now, in their effort to ensure we lose the war, they want to make sure a troop surge (like the one that completely turned around the Iraq War in 2007) does not happen. If it goes through, there’s a very good chance we will NOT lose. In that regard, they are turning on Obama, which I find hilarious. He counted on the Far Left to deliver his win in 2008, and now that he’s alienated independents with his support for a public option in healthcare and obviously has no support on the right, if he loses the Far Left, well, there’s not many people left on the planet who are going to support this guy.

Keep in mind, I support Obama’s decision if he DOES send 35,000 more troops. Without these troops, it’s very likely the situation would degenerate beyond how bad it is now and we’d be in serious danger of losing control of the country.

Don’t get me wrong and think I’ve gone soft on the Ditherer In Chief. This decision is 3 months too late and cost American lives while he was whining and prognosticating, of course. It’s ridiculous to spend this long to make a decision that your generals recommended; that’s why the generals are THERE, because they are smarter than you when it comes to military decisions (when it comes to Obama this could not be more true). Our Commander In Chief’s entire military experience comes from directing militant union thugs while he was a community organizer.

It’s embarrassing.

Cue cussing and spitting from the Far Left at this.

Obama is not considering the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, the White House said Monday.

“I don’t think we have the option to leave. That’s quite clear,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said in his daily briefing with reporters, two days after eight U.S. troops and two Afghan soldiers were killed during a firefight in a remote region of the country.

The debate over whether to send as many as 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan is a major element of a strategy overhaul that senior administration policy advisers will consider this week as they gather for top-level meetings on the direction of the war.

Obama has invited a bipartisan group of congressional leaders to the White House on Tuesday to confer about the war. He said the administration would brief leaders from both parties and key committee chairmen and would seek their opinions.

“They’re an important part of this and the president wants to hear from them,” Gibbs said.

Gibbs, describing the president as “deeply saddened” over Saturday’s casualties, said Obama does not envision deploying more troops to outposts like the ones that were attacked over weekend. He said the administration is considering shifting troops to more populated areas instead.

Now, the problem with this is that Obama’s complete and utter lack of foreign policy experience is leading to him making some serious mistakes here. He’s refusing to pull troops out, but also refusing to send more in that are necessary to ensure our victory. On top of that, while he’s hemming and hawing and trying to decide what to do while ignoring and berating Gen. McChrystal, American soldiers are dying! He needs to make a decision one way or the other! If he’s not pulling out, more troops need to go.

Because, what of the troops already there? Obama won’t withdraw and won’t reinforce, are they to fight a Vietnam-esque war of attrition until The Big Zero leaves office and we replace him with someone that has at least half a brain when it comes to foreign policy issues?

This is a terrible situation, and Obama’s inability to make a decision is costing good Americans their lives. Bush saw in 2007 that Iraq was headed to a bad place, and he made the extraordinarily gutsy call for the “troop surge,” and it worked. If he had waited three months before doing it, the results may have been drastically different.

Maybe all those “present” votes by Obama in the Illinois Senate really SHOULD have been taken into account. As Rudy Guiliani said last year at the Republican Convention, “Nearly 130 times, he couldn’t make a decision. He couldn’t figure out whether to vote ‘yes’ or ‘no.’ It was too tough. He voted — he voted ‘present.’”

As Rudy said, for President of the United States…it’s not good enough to be ‘present.’ You have to make a decision.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Two local intelligence officials say troops and tribesman opened fire when two U.S. helicopters crossed into Pakistan from Afghanistan.

Pakistan’s army and the U.S. military in Afghanistan said they had no information on the alleged incident late Sunday in North Waziristan.

The two intelligence officials spoke on condition of anonymity Monday because they were not authorized to speak to media. They cited field informants.

More here.

So these guys are feeling pretty cocky now, are they? I guess when you threaten the big kid on the block it automatically makes you tough too. You know, now that I think about it, who really needs Pakistan anyway? I declare regime change!

Seriously though…maybe if they policed the porous and completely undefended terrorist hideout that they call a border with Afghanistan we wouldn’t have this issue.

Another terrorist head honcho is taken down; bit by bit, we ARE winning. Don’t believe everything you hear from the mainstream media.