Charles Krauthammer: How in good conscience?

Charles Krauthammer   "By early 2011, writes former defense secretary Robert Gates, he had concluded that President Obama “doesn’t believe in his own [Afghanistan] strategy, and doesn’t consider the war to be his.”

"Not his? America is at war and he’s America’s commander in chief. For the soldier being shot at in the field, it makes no difference under whose administration the fighting began. In fact, three out of four Americans killed in Afghanistan have died under Barack Obama’s command. That’s ownership enough." ....

Tony Branco

Mr. Krauthammer could always see it; in the above article he refers us to this column he wrote back in 2009:

Obama's hollow speech on Afghanistan  

 ... Which made his last-minute assertion of "resolve unwavering" so hollow. It was meant to be stirring. It fell flat.

Back to Mr. Krauthammer's original piece in which he points out the political hackery of this president:


... "Even worse, Obama ordered a major escalation, expending much blood but not an ounce of his own political capital. Over the next four years, notes Gates with chagrin, Obama ignored the obligation of any commander to explain, support and try to rally the nation to the cause.

"And when he finally terminated the surge, he did so in the middle of the 2012 fighting season. Militarily incoherent — but politically convenient. It allowed Obama to campaign for reelection proclaiming that “the tide of war is receding.' ”
It is said that a nation gets the leaders it deserves. Let us give thanks to Obama voters who gave our nation and Western Civilization this mediocre socialist for our president.