Well, losing a war and trashing the military

do go together
Well he has done it. I am not certain at all that the war in Afghanistan could have been won. But you could hardly pick a strategy better suited to losing it than the one Obama has employed. His faux surge sent troops to a war zone with an expiration date. The Taliban waited out the Soviets and they must have been laughing when he stood in front of the cadets at West Point and announced his ludicrous plan. Our enemies knew that our troops would be gone before the 2012 elections. Obama ordered our forces to war and made sure they had no way to win it, because he needed to "end" the war and return to his real passion as Campaigner in Chief. Shameful, truly shameful.

He began running his mouth as a Senator about the bad war in Iraq causing us to lose focus on the good war in Afghanistan. He was a lead voice in the cut and run chorus and did all he could to lose the war in Iraq. If we had listened to his advice, we would have suffered the exact same kind of defeat there that we are about to suffer in Afghanistan. We will now cede the field of battle, where so much US blood has been shed, to the enemy. And we will sue for something less than peace from the very people who hosted the planning and execution of 9/11. Bravo, well done sir.

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Sorry to break it to the White House, but that’s not a “realistic strategy”. It’s a wish. I can’t tell you how many times, since the advent of the airplane in combat, I’ve heard it said that the necessity of maintaining ground troops is coming to an end.

Yet here we are, with troops in Afghanistan and 10 years of troops in Iraq. Libya was a one-of that still hasn’t come to a conclusion and as I note above, what we’re seeing now doesn’t appear to improve the situation for the US – and that should be the goal of any sort of intervention. I certainly appreciate the desire not to nation build, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you need less ground troops available in a very dangerous and volatile world. Air and sea are combat multipliers, but as always, the only sort of units that can take and hold ground are ground combat units. That hasn’t changed in a thousand years. If you want to talk about contingencies, there are more of them that require those sorts of forces than don’t.