Obama Announces Surrender in Afganistan

President Barack Obama, in his speech to West Point Cadets, announced the biggest military blunder since Viet Nam. In the same sentence Obama announced the deployment of thirty thousand additional troops to Afghanistan and he announced his withdrawal date of July 2011. It is obvious that the troop surge is purely a political ploy to camouflage his true position, which is to retreat from the War on Terror. Obama should have ended the sentence by saying these troops will crush Al Qaeda, eradicate the Taliban and bring peace to Afghanistan; instead he set a clear date to retreat. It does not take a military genius to see this gives our troops only one summer to accomplish the mission of winning the war, train Afgan police and army, pacify the villages and cities of Afghanistan, capture Bin Laden and destroy Al Qaeda. The harsh winters in Afghanistan prevents most military maneuvers so this leaves the summer of 2010 to win the war. If we haven't won the war in eight years, what new military strategy did Obama reveal that will win the war in one summer. First of all, more troops is not the answer; being a Viet Nam vet I witness a troop build up of half a million men, resulting in nearly fifty eight thousand dead. What was missing in the Viet Nam build up was the will and commitment to a military victory. Without the will for a military victory in Afghanistan the buildup is doomed to failure. What is infuriating, this man will sacrifice the lives of American young men to cover up his true agenda of retreat. By setting a withdrawal date Obama has given a signal to our enemies that we are not in the fight to win, and he has given our friends the message that we will not stand with them to the end. Why is our President so willing to give our enemies a subliminal message? It is not the first time. It is clear that either Obama does not understand the underlying agenda of Islam or he understands Jihad and is working to further their cause. When is America going to hold Obama accountable! During his campaign he made it clear that Afghanistan was the war that needed to be won. He declared that the Iraq war was the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time! Well, he has been president for over a year now; where was his strategy for Afghanistan last December? Why did it take him so long to announce his surrender; did it take him that long to figure out how to mask his retreat? My conclusion, just get out and face the music.