Sen. Obama & Iraq
June 3rd, 2008 at 03:17pm Geoff
As this video indicates, Sen. Obama and his primary surrogate continue to demonstrate an absolute dearth of judgment to lead, this time in regards to Iraq. Sen. Obama clung to the liberal fantasy that an influx of troop strength into Iraq could not have dramatic effect in altering the dynamics on the ground as the surge was announced and he continues to cling to the fantasy that that influx still has not had a dramatic effect and has essentially seized an American victory in Iraq from the jaws of defeat. Well in fact it has. As Rich Lowry (who, unlike Sen. Obama, has made multiple trips to Iraq) writes today:
It’s more and more clear that opponents of the war made a colossal strategic misjudgment in opposing the surge. Obama says the surge is a “tactical victory imposed upon a huge strategic blunder.” This is the wrong way to look at it. We suffered from tactical blunders prior to 2006 that Obama and Co. wanted to transform into a massive strategic defeat by hastily exiting Iraq and letting the country collapse in our absence. The surge saved us from that fate and now we can contemplate three strategic victories in Iraq: 1) Having removed Saddam Hussein and his threat to the region (obviously already accomplished); 2) Defeating al Qaeda in the Arab heartland in a blow to the terror group’s prestige and ideology world-wide (this outcome now seems quite likely); 3) Establishing a stable, imperfectly democratic ally of the United States in a hugely important region of the world (still up in the air, but seems more likely every day).
In his continual lambasting of Sen. McCain and President Bush over their failures in judgment regarding Iraq (alleged in the former instance, legitimate in many cases regarding the latter), Sen. Obama only demonstrates his own complete misunderstanding and misjudgment regarding our involvement in that theater. Couple that with his identical state of befuddlement regarding Iran and it is a bit disconcerting that he stands a better than even chance at being our next commander-in-chief.
Barack Obama, judgment to lead? Not even close.
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