Give the Dope credit for doing the right thing, blast him for doing it so poorly

I have to give the Dope credit for doing the right thing. At the same time, I throw my hands up in the air and ask myself what could possibly have taken sooooo damn long, after all this is “the necessary war.”

Then I understand that the Grand Dope announced his strategy to the world. Sure you get 30,000 more troops – but only for 18 months after which I will yank them out of there faster than a fat kid going through the desserts at a $40 Las Vegas buffet.

The delay, the public angst and confusion, and the public announcement of how long the US intended to stay were all blunders. Had Dopulus not delayed the deployment could be nearly complete by now. Had the biggest Blockhead since Charlie Brown not acted as if it were he making a bigger sacrifice than the troops he wouldn’t have appeared to be a weaker than usual narcissistic weasel. Had Excrement for Brains not announced his strategy to the world he would have left himself a great deal more political and military maneuvering room.

As it is the Dear Douche will have to pull troops precisely on the announced 18 month timeline or support from his left-wing defeat mongers will drop faster than his poll numbers. Shrinking away in defeat is not the worst scenario though. Trying to get back in when things go to crap, as they surly will under this scenario, will be almost impossible. After the Dear Dope hangs US allies in Afghanistan out to dry and they get hosed by the Taliban – or is it Tal-ee-bon? – US credibility in the region will plummet into negative numbers.

So now the only thing necessary for the all of the bad actors in the area to do is to lay low for 18 months, watch the US pull out and then swoop down on a hapless Afghanistan government, military, and people like a pride lions on a wounded wildebeest. Look I’m not crazy about propping up another country’s government and military, but we should do what’s in our own national interest. The real danger of an unstable Afghanistan run by a bunch of fanatical Islamo-Terror-Fascists is that the now nuclear – thanks BillBo Clinton - Pakistan will fall to the ITF next.

Besides we have been hanging around parts of the world where we have a national interest for years ie. Europe and Japan since WWII, Korean since that war and so on.