The leaked Afghan war documents will prove politically devastating to President Obama, hitting him in his most vulnerable place — his liberal base.
Having already lost all Republicans and almost all independents, Obama is shedding Democrats these days. According to the FoxNews poll, his job approval among them has dropped from 84 percent at the end of June to 76 percent in mid-July. A combination of the Afghan War, the oil spill, Guantanamo and his failure to act on immigration reform have all eroded his credibility with his liberal constituents.
Now comes evidence that the war in Afghanistan cannot be won — certainly not with the effort and constraints now in place. It is obvious that Obama and Hillary Clinton are being duped by the Pakistani government and that the Afghan leadership is awash in corruption. With Pakistan offering the Taliban sanctuary next door and the government in Kabul staying in office in order to steal American aid, the Afghan War is looking more and more like Vietnam.
And now we have the equivalent of the leak of the Pentagon Papers discrediting the war effort from the inside.
All this comes at a time when Obama is suffering from erosion in his liberal support due to his seeming pandering over the racial issue, bending first to accommodate conservative critics and then to cave in to black activists. The image of weakness that emerges, combined with the incompetence of his reaction to the BP oil spill, does him no good in his ratings.
The Democratic defection is critical. Those who leave Obama’s ranks will not likely defect to the Republicans. But they will stay home on Election Day in November. In any off-year election, the two-way contest between the parties masks the real competition — a three-way race among Democrats, Republicans and those who stay home.
Why should Democrats come out to vote for Obama? To end the war — the initial selling point he used to get nominated? The war is dragging on without end. His pledge to withdraw the extra troops rings increasingly hollow as it becomes clear that the price for keeping that pledge would be surrender.
It's not exactly new news but it is still good to bring it up again.
The Taliban and the Pakistani intelligence officers are both Pashtuns .
The Pashtuns are native to Pakistan and Afghanistan. The people we think of as Pakistani
are really Muslim Indians who migrated in during the late forties.
Another group group also lives there-a rather wealthy class of land owners.
The Afghan Army is a mixture of mutually hostile types with resentment.
Maybe it's not new news, but still neccessary to state. I would love to hear more, you obviously know a lot more than you write.
"Wear" or "Where"?
Where-I can see no play on words regarding clothing in this article. For some reason my first post was deleted- I pointed out that this is the second time in about a week that an incorrect word was posted in the headlines- ah-the wonderful public schools…………….
It seems that we are in Afghanistan by design – an insidious plot to drain our resources, while our dollars and material goods slide into the hands of the corrupt muslims (they really want our blood) who are sucking us dry! What are we fighting for with our hands tied behind our backs and world opinion against us. What for rocks and primitive people who hate all non-muslims? Who hate America. Alexander, The Brits, The Russians have failed in this God forsaken land. Let's get out now and let them rot!
Where- I don't see any play on words regarding apparel in this article. This is the second time in the last few days that the headline has had a misspelling-someone needs to check on the person who is entering these headlines to make sure they are using the correct spelling. Illiteracy and ignorance of word meanings will be the end of the world as we know it one of these days.
Hello,
I know a way to kill off whatever remaining idiots that there are than think that this man knows what he is doing, and that he actually deserves to be where he is. This is not about race, and although the idiots that are screaming that, and the reason that they are is he is sucking to high heaven right now. So they do not have a leg to stand on, and whats worst is that he actually will go on TV, and talk-shows, and lie through his teeth about things. Here is the thing that will little savior of America. On national TV have him tell all America the answer to this question—Mr. President you are the CEO of a major company, and you just lost one of the largest clients in the history of your company, now what will you be able to do to meet your payroll, and it is coming due in three days? This man has never ran a company, and the best of all the people that he has decided that he wanted on his quote–TEAM are nothing more than tax cheats. Give me a break. Is this the way we run "OUR" nation now. Tax cheats telling everybody else how to life, and what taxes are due, and when to pay them. I could go on, and on, but I think you understand what I am trying real hard to say—–Mr. O-"DUMMY" was not qualified to be President. PERIOD!!!!
As community organizer ala Alinsky, Obama's role in politics was to opine/complain/stir up the opposition. Apparently he's still doing it only this time he's opposing himself.
Please take down the word WEAR and replace it with correct spelling! Either slow down with your writing or check your spelling please.
DICK: Is that it? Did you fully explain why the leaks will hurt Dear Leader? I don't think so.
In any case, he okay'd the release. There is no way an Army Speicialist got hold of that much info and intelligence that easily. And if that is the case, heads up the chain of command should roll.
"Follow the money" is the secret to winning. Instead of the Taliban, WE need to protect and license the opium farmers and build a pharmaceutical plant in Khandahar. This is done in India and Turkey. The farmer gets better prices, escapes the brutality of the Taliban and learns to trust Americans. Losing the war in Afghanistan is just another casualty of the stupid War on Drugs.
Mr. Morris, I desperately hope you will take up this idea on how to win and also change the 'wear' to 'where'!
"Follow the money" is the secret to winning. Instead of the Taliban, WE should be protecting and licensing the opium farmers. We should build a pharmaceutical plant to process their opium. The farmer gets better prices, his family does not suffer the brutality of the Taliban, our enemies and smugglers are starved of their income, and Afghans learn to trust Americans. The loss of Afghanistan is simply another casualty of the stupid War on Drugs.
Mr. Morris, why is this
Don't forget that Morris also predicted that the 2008 presidential election would be between Hilliary and Condoleeza Rice.
"Follow the money" is the way to win this war. Instead of the Taliban, WE should be protecting and licensing the opium farmers. A pharmaceutical plant should be built in Khandahar to process the opium into prescription drugs. This will give the farmer higher prices, protect his family from the brutality of the Taliban, starve them of their funding, ruin the smuggling of heroin and earn the trust and friendship of Afghans. The same thing is done in Turkey and India. Our failure in Afghanistan is another tragic casualty of the stupid 'War on Drugs'.
There is another way to get our point across and not lose one more american life to this war. Threaten the Taliban with carpetting the mosques with pork rinds. Everytime they get out of line with a peaceful intent then we take out a mosque with pork rinds. C-17's can carry a lot of pork rinds. If they want to live in Mohammed times let them figure out what to do with a mosque that has been inumdated with pork rinds. I like the biblical story about "manna from heaven". Plus the Gentiles will love to eat the left overs.
Yeah thats a good way to "win hearts and minds".
How about we end the war and pull out Dick?
How about you care a little more about your country and a little less about your money.
Watch out for Chicago politics in all future elections. The introduction of a third party running to split the Republican vote. Special reward for the one bleeding votes from the opposition to the Democrat party.
Good point! The Ross Perot gambit: Clinton used it to good advantage.
I told everyone I was a communist, and they elected me anyway…….
Yep, you said so in you book Comrade Obama!
Yes, your record, both in and out of politics, showed that you were a racist and almost a bolshevik. But our hard-hitting MSM covered all that up and presented you as the saviour of mankind; and too many foolhardy voters believed them.