“This will not be quick, nor easy. But we must never forget: This is not a war of choice. This is a war of necessity. … This is fundamental to the defense of our people.”
- President Obama
Remember this picture of “W” standing on the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 12, 2001 talking with a bullhorn in his hand – telling the world that the men that “knocked down these towers” would be made to answer for this unforgivable act, and hunted down and brought to justice no matter what it takes? (Gives a whole new meaning to the word “Bullhorn“).
Now, in September of 2009, there seems to be a sudden interest by Conservative pundits and Republican politicians regarding the American war strategy in Afghanistan. Some are even questioning Obama’s decision to take his time in assessing the request by the Pentagon for more troops in order to make sure that this strategy will produce the desired results.
Really?
Where the Hell have you all been since December 2001, when Osama bin Laden escaped in the battle of Tora Bora at the beginning of the war in Afghanistan as a result of the previous Administration’s and then Pentagon Joint Chiefs of Staff decision not to send in Special Forces to finish the job when the lead CIA operative Gary Berntsen radioed the Pentagon that he had Bin Laden located? Berntsen has become a leading critic of the failure of the Bush Administration and the Pentagon to send the necessary forces into Tora Bora in order to kill Osama bin Laden.
House Minority Leader John Boehner and Minority Senate Leader Mitch McConnell . . . six years after those towers were brought to the ground, and you are just now speaking up???