Bombs and Dollars – American Foreign Policy Blog – China, Afghanistan, Pakistan

Here’s some funny news. Our new American president is a man with a huge ego evidently, which is probably at a peak after the historic health care bill passed the house…(now people, just to get things clear, recently the word “historically” is being used and often interchangeably with something good…ironically while forgetting that history brought us Stalin, Hitler and Carter…)

The promised Afghan Surge, which was a cause of a debate and accompanying headache for “That Chosen One”, was being put off and delayed for ages. ‘Cause President Obama, was in a terrible, terrible moral dilemma faced typically by Democrat presidents, who wants to keep their champions of peace image alive (which they can attain with just the order of some fish tacos).

We’ve seen these before. Carter, Clinton, both “hoped” to “change” to an “ethical” foreign policy. Only later faced a cold cruel reality, Carter in Iran embassy siege, Clinton in Kosovo.

Obama, however played smart. The Pentagon wanted 40,000 additional troops for the Afghan war. Now, if Obama would have gave in to their demand, it would have been both a political and Public Relation disaster. Republicans would have been gloating, and his image as a stern President would have been slashed.

Obama gives some troops, but not enough

He, therefore is reported to consider sending 30,000 additional troops. It’s decently less than the actual numbers needed on field. But is more than his Democrat team members would have wanted. Thereby his image and ego both gets satisfied. (No Nobel Prize for guessing that.)

Whether the plans of Pentagon is hampered by Obama’s ego balloon, is anyone’s guess.

And if anyone is in doubt about the needs and neccessity of the Afghanistan war, well…here are a couple of videos…

Taliban Terror (YouTube)

Great Britain Loses One of It’s Finest (Yon)