Obama's "New Strategy" for Afghanistan

Have you noticed how so many American's are afraid of speaking out against Barack H. Obama? Like one CNN Reporter put it; "Many Americans are so emotionally invested in the Obama presidency that they consider it too historic to fail, whatever goes wrong that they can't defend or deflect, they just blame on George W. Bush." The Reporter; Ruben Navarrette Jr., was fair in his assessment of Obama in his article titled - Commentary- Obama is flunking economics. You can read it at:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/27/navarrette.obama.economics/index.html?eref=rss_politics

Isn't it funny how during his Campaign for the White House, Obama repeatedly called Gen. David Petraeus's Troop Surge effort "A dismal failure", as did Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden, the other two white house hopefuls. Now he wants to do the exact same thing in Afghanistan by sending 17000 U.S. Soldiers to Afghanistan to counter the increased violence from the Talaban hiding in Pakistan. From what I have read the Pakistan Inteligence Service is aiding the Talaban insurgents in their Islamic Jihadi War aginst us Infidels, and yet Obama has promised the Pakistani President, Asif Ali Zardari, $1.5 Billion in Aid every year, or until the Al Qaeda and Taliban are defeated. Hell, that's probably equal to their entire GNP! More and more I'm believing this clown is an idiot! Earlier this past week Obama announced that we would no longer refer to the fighting in the middleeast and in the Philippines as "The War on Terror", instead, we are to refer to it as our "Overseas Contigency Operations." My question is simple; What the Hell is an Overseas Contigency Operation?

In his toughest voice yesterday (Fri. 3/27/09) when announcing his "New Strategy" in Afghanistan, Obama stated he didn't want to get tied down in a Quagmire, that he wanted a clear "exit strategy" out of the "Overseas Contingent Operations" when the time comes to leave. Excuse me, but did I miss something? In one speech he says he wants to destroy the Al Qaeda and Taliban, and in this speech he says he wants to be able cry "Uncle" when the time comes! Army Gen. David McKiernan, the U.S. Commander in Afghanistan has requested a force increase of 35,000 additional troops this year, instead though, Obama has authorized only 17,000 combat troops, and an additional 4,000 troops to help train the Police and Military of Afghanistan. In addition to the Army and Marines being sent to that front, Obama is sending "hundreds" of civilian State Department and personnel from other U.S. Agencies to "improve Afghanistan's ability to goven itself." (Which will be interesting, as President Hamid Karzai, the President of Afghanistan, has NOT asked for any help to improve his countries ability to govern itself!

Only time will tell, but how much time do we have? Fox News ran another article today that stated more Hezbollah are entering our country illegally from Mexico everyday, Cezar Chavez is offering whole islands to Russia for their Military, N. Korea is talling about shooting off an ICBM next month, (Both Japan and the U.S. has said we will shoot it dawn if N. Korea goes ahead with their plans!), and last but not least, China has been drastically rebuilding their Military in hopes of returning control of Tiawan to the Mainland Communist's. Of course we still havea force of 850 of U.S. Special Forces and Navy Seals operating in the Philippines against the Al Qada linked Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) is the smallest of the four Islamic Terror groups in the Philippines, and the most violent, the others are; Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), and the New Peoples Army (NPA) which is the militant branch of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).

My point of mentioning the Philippines is to illustrate a faction of the Terrorism in the world where we have U.S. Military, and civilian personnel in harms way and that nobody ever hears about from the news media. We also have Military in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand either fighting or training the military and or police of those countries in their fight against Al Qaeda factions within their borders. But once again, you have to turn to the internet to discover this for yourself, the news media isn't going to tell you!