Why is this man being sent to Afghanistan? Probably nothing exemplifies the failure of the Obama administration to live up to its promise more than Obama's blind plunge into the quaqmire of Afghanistan.
We see many pretty pictures of Obama and his lovely family but it's not about Obama. It is about Sgt. Keith and his family.
NY Times. June 27, 2010. One Battalion’s Wrenching Deployment to Afghanistan
Obama has signed on to waste US lives and money to support a corrupt regime that is hated by the Afghan people and will not survive US withdrawal.
The reason we invaded Middle East TEN YEARS AGO was to get Bin Laden for 911 attack on US. Bin Laden, a creation of the Reagan/Bush CIA, trained and financed by them to terrorize Afghanistan and India, had turned on US and organized terror attack on US. Bin Laden a still supported ally of Pakistan's current regime.
$1T, 60,000 US casualties, 1 million Afghans and Iraqis later, US mission has devolved into a crazy pointless support of a corrupt Afghan warlord. Bin Laden long forgotten, the threat of Bin Laden and Pakistani nukes totally ignored.
If Obama did not have the intelligence and guts to end the Afghanistan war, he will not be up to other challenges facing the US. As James Olmas noted in his rage against Obama's lackadiasical response to Gulf oil blow "He just lost it somewhere", if he ever had it. From Obama's campaign rhetoric he seemed to get it on every issue but as president, "he just lost it" and has not made a right decision on health care, oil, Afghanistan, equal rights, Supreme Court judges, deficit debt, Social Security.