Barack Obama has already stepped back from remarks he made the other day claiming that we “have seen over three thousand lives of the bravest young Americans wasted.” Here’s the video clip, which was widely circulated by conservative blogs yesterday.
The New York Times reports that Obama has “restructure[d]” his remarks–he only meant “that their service hasn’t been honored because our civilian strategy has not honored their courage and bravery, and we have put them in a situation in which it is hard for them to succeed.” Hard to take that seriously when none of the Democratic candidates has proposed any type of strategy that would give the troops a better chance at success. Allahpundit does an excellent job of explaining the conundrum facing the Democrats:
