ONCE AGAIN, OBAMA PROVES HE LACKS THE JUDGMENT TO LEAD US...

... OBAMA LACKS THE JUDGMENT LEAD US ANYWHERE GOOD!

HE PREDICTED THE SURGE WOULD MAKE THINGS WORSE - INCREASE VIOLENCE.

HE WAS WRONG. HIS JUDGMENT WAS BAD.

HE JUST CALLED IRAQ "A DISTRACTION" - AGAIN.

THIS IS AN IDIOTIC MEME OF THE LEFT.

THAT WOULD BE LIKE - DURING WW2 - CALLING THE INVASION OF NORTH AFRICA OR SICILY A DISTRACTION.

[NOTE: the links are to two Atkisson books about WW2. EXCERPT FROM READER REVIEWS AT AMAZON:

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Rick Atkinson's "The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944" is a masterpiece of military history that should be read by anyone with any interest in World War II or American military history. Following on the heels of his Pulitzer Prize-winning "An Army at Dawn," this is the second work in Atkinson's "Liberation Trilogy" and deserving of yet another Pulitzer Prize. This book is awash in details about the difficult - and often forgotten - fighting in the Mediterranean Theater, but it also clearly and effectively describes the bigger picture of the war in Sicily and Italy.

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Quick summary: a major history of the US Army's campaign to capture Sicily and mainland Italy during WWII. It covers the years 1943 - 1944 and reveals the maturing development of the US Army from a raw green force in North Africa to a more confident professional army capable of actions involving large scale operations. With the passage of time, the release of more documents (>50 years since the end of WWII) and the longer arc of history, it is now possible to write more objective and critical history of the US side of the ETO. The first work, Army at the Dawn, revealed how badly prepared the US Army was at the outbreak of WWII and how green they were when they landed in North Africa. In hindsight Operation Torch was necessary in order to help sort out what tactics and weapons worked, which generals and officers were up to the modern shooting war, and what was the character of the American Army. Though West Point supplied a professional officer cadre, every American Army has essentially been an amateur one - from the Revolutionary War, Civil War, Spanish American War, and WWI. Large numbers of keen volunteers which needed several years or campaigns to become a serious fighting army. The Second World War proved no different. Atkinson continues his narrative of the evolution of the American Army with a detailed discussion of the Sicilian and Italian campaigns - the flaws and successes, the personalities, and lesser known but important figures.

Sounds a little like our experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq, doesn't it.]