Obama at West Point -

Last night, The Great Leader, The Messiah,
The Protector of The Poor, President Obama
made a speech at West Point Academy,
to tell the world he was sending 30,000 more
troops to Afghanistan.

It looked very 'staged' and the applause was
less than enthusiastic.

This speech was purely political, and a bad idea.

First, as I suspected, he didn't use the word 'Victory' anywhere in his speech.

He has no plans for winning this conflict, it appears that his handlers don't want him discussing the concept of winning.

Second, if it was a military decision, you'd simply send the soldiers, you wouldn't advertise your plans to the enemy.

So obviously it isn't military, it's political.

When Obama was campaigning, he attacked the Bush administration, saying that the war in Iraq was taking the interest off of Afghanistan, and that he'd focus on Afghanistan.

BUT - earlier this year - over three months ago, the press found out that he had only met once with his hand-picked military commander over there, and that he was ignoring the request for more soldiers.

That put him in a tough spot. If he ignored the request, which is what he wanted to keep doing, he would look even weaker on the war on terror. He was willing to do that until another terrorist attack happened, at Ft. Hood, when an American muslim-extremist-soldier attacked and killed fellow soldiers. He had to do something.

But politically, if he agreed to send more soldiers, he'd piss-off the anti-war Democrats, and he'd leave all the Democrats who worked so hard to engineer defeat in Afghanistan hung out to dry.

So he pledged not to send in the 40,000 troops his general requested, but to send 30,000.

Then in the next breath he promised to bring them home right away.

Ridiculous.

Plus, the reason I say it was a bad idea was because it showed both our allies, and the opposition in Afghanistan that we have no resolve to finish the job.

The Taliban, starting today can simply put away their rifles and bombs, because the Americans are leaving in 2011.

So you won't see many of the population joining the US-led coalition, because they were just told that the US is pulling out.

How would you describe Obama as a military leader?

The words I use are 'Weak' and 'Hesitant'.