Admit it: the guy has a nice way of going. Following eight years of graceless arrogance, a smooth and respectful commander in chief is most useful, at home and on the world stage.

(BTW, the captcha phrase I find below sure seems to refer to the Bush Years: "the lummoxes." Am not making this up.)

Obama has grace and class in spades and now we will see if he has the intestinal fortitude to short circuit this Afghan war by deciding that he will risk his re-election by making the hard choice to rapidly wind down the war as it is now conducted. As an option he could choose a more deft approach and put his money on intensive intelligence gathering/sharing, discreet Special Op's activity, UAV's, and a greater emphasis in building stability in Pakistan. This alternative likely would have no worse consequences and perhaps greater returns than staying the course with the current confused and unappealing path that lies before us. As a side it would also take a step in temporizing fickle public attitudes.

Once again, the U. S. military has grossly overestimated its capabilities in irregular warfare and miscalculated the durability of both their opponents and the American public’s morale. The public sees a seemingly invincible military complex not suffer defeats but rather get itself once again bogged down in an endlessly inconclusive and stalemated war which seems to produce little but a trickle of dead and wounded to break the hearts of their families. This was the story of Vietnam, Iraq and now Afghanistan and unless he summons up the courage to resist Obama risks being sucked into this vortex of failure, then escalation, and then more failure, ad infinitium.

The war mafia hates our President, because he is a man of peace. I see him as our version of the late Konrad Adenauer. A man of peace who helped heal his nation after being subject to a criminal regime.

I am a conservative and a Republican. I may have not been happy with the way George W. conducted the war but I recoiled in horror in the way he was demonized by the left. There were quiet moments such as these that he connected. I am now embarrassed as a conservative, a Republican and as an American at the way our current President is savaged by the right. What I found in this is what we should recognize in all good leaders, a person who feels the weight of the responsibility he has assumed. He carries not only the hopes and aspirations of millions (if not billions in his case) but also the lives and welfare of those that serve in uniform. I do believe he is taking a tad too long to make up his mind on what he wants...but better to be deliberate and make the right decision than be hasty and mess it all up.

I don't agree with the President much/most of the time but he is my President. I pray that God guide him and keep him, because before being a conservative and a Republican, I am an American.

To say Obama has had 9 lousy months as President are beyond ridiculous. He's handling a financial meltdown of epic proportions, mounting job losses, and two foreign quagmires, but because he he's still analyzing a highly complex occupation in Afghanistan, he's been lousy.

Simply laughable. Its interesting to see how poorly some reporters deal with attempting to be objective in modern times. Some are certainly better than others.

Well, who said that about 9 months? Maybe I am missing it, but I don't see it here.
Thanks,
Tom

"I don't agree with the President much/most of the time but he is my President. I pray that God guide him and keep him, because before being a conservative and a Republican, I am an American."

theCardinal, I salute you. I wish that there were more people on the right who felt as you do. I am reminded that when JFK won the Presidency, John Wayne was asked what he thought, and he replied, "I didn't vote for him, but he is my President, and I hope he does a good job."

I think that many people have gone way too far putting party before country, and the same people who said that criticizing Bush 43 during a time of war was, ahem, inappropriate, are the same folks who stop at nothing to tear down a President whom they did not vote for. I applaud the President for taking his time to study the situation in Afghanistan and decide whether throwing more blood and treasure down a deep rabbit hole is the answer or not.

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