'The president concluded from the start that “I have two years with the public on this” and pressed advisers for ways to avoid a big escalation, the book says. “I want an exit strategy,” he implored at one meeting. Privately, he told Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to push his alternative strategy opposing a big troop buildup in meetings, and while Mr. Obama ultimately rejected it, he set a withdrawal timetable because, “I can’t lose the whole Democratic Party.”'
So there you have the true intentions of the US President and Commander in Chief; not to be victorious in Afghanistan, not to protect the American people from terrorist attack, not to do everything he can to keep the USA safe from future attacks; just to shore up support for himself in and for his own political party. What a piece of scum.
As John Bolton says in the following video:
'“If the book is accurate … it is some of the most cold-blooded, cynical, grotesquely political manipulation of national security that I think we’ve ever seen.”'
Thanks to Gateway Pundit for the spot.
I kind of reminds me of something closer to home.
ReplyDeleteSenior members of the last Labour government claim to have known that Mr Brown, the former Prime Minister, had serious Psychological flaws. Mr Blair, his predecessor in No. 10 Downing Street, was similarly aware and believed he would be a disaster. They were right, his Chancellorship and Prime Ministership were the worst in this country's history. The train wreck was foreseeable, but no one in the Cabinet or broader Labour Party would risk damaging the Party by making their misgivings public.
They cared more for the party tyhan for the country.
They are beneath contempt.