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When Soaring Rhetoric Meets Reality

It all well and good to use fancy words and soaring rhetoric.   It even better if you actually know what the words mean, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Washington Post [1]:

“It was easy to say, ‘Hey, I support COIN,’ because nobody had done the assessment of what it would really take, and nobody had thought through whether we want to do what it takes,” said one senior civilian administration official who participated in the review, using the shorthand for counterinsurgency.

The failure to reach a shared understanding of the resources required to execute the strategy has complicated the White House’s response to the grim assessment [2] of the war by the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, forcing the president to decide, in effect, what his administration really meant when it endorsed a counterinsurgency plan.

The moron who is our president, Barack Obama, commits to a counterinsurgency plan(COIN) without the first clue what COIN actually means, much less would entail.

Meanwhile, Laura Logan, who has actually has had her boots on the ground in both Iran and Afghanistan,  rips the one, the strutting Delaware Blue Hen and the Obamatards a new one, video:


Watch CBS News Videos Online [3]

Hat tip:  Allah Pundit, Hot Air [4].

Meanwhile back at Neverland East, the one is now prepared to make nice with the Taliban, from Gateway Pundit [5]:

President Barack Obama is prepared to accept some Taliban involvement in Afghanistan’s political future and appears inclined to send only as many more U.S. troops as needed to keep al-Qaida at bay, a senior administration official said Thursday.

The even the one does not know what he means when says he will accept some Taliban involvement in the Afghanistan government.   Maybe Obama means the Taliban can only stone women on Tuesdays?