As Obama’s Hamlet like performance on Afghanistan continues, as General Biden pushes his “plan“, and Jim Jones minimizes the Taliban threat, a friend emails this quote from Candidate Obama in New Hampshire on August 14, 2007:
Of course this was when Obama was trying to prove he was not George McGovern, that he was willing to stay and fight in Afghanistan as he argued for cutting and running in Iraq. Still, he could not help himself and chose to impugn the Americans fighting in Afghanistan who were most certainly not “just air-raiding villages and killing civilians.” But more troops were needed then and are needed now to ensure U.S. and allied forces are not limited to the search and destroy missions and Predator strikes that are the central feature of General Biden’s “plan.” Obama seemed to recognize this in 2007 and even as recently as his August 17, 2009 speech to the VFW, when he spoke of the “need to protect the Afghan people.” Now, when presented with a plan to do just that by one of our nation’s great generals, he dithers and delays — and he allows his vice president to champion a strategy for just air-raiding villages and killing civilians. Update: Remember when Biden was for more troops and resources? From the VP debate:
