HOW OBAMA LOST AFGHANSTAN

1 - OBAMA DITHERED THREE MONTHS OVER A REQUEST BY GENERAL MCCHRYSTAL FOR MORE TROOPS, AN THEN GAVE HIM THE TROOPS BUT DID SO WITH A PUBLICLY ADVERTISED TIMETABLE FOR WITHDRAWAL - UNDERMINING THE EFFORT:

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., an advocate for fulfilling McChrystal's request for more U.S. troops, told ABC News, "The longer we delay in sending the necessary additional troops, the longer it will be that our troops are unnecessarily in danger, in my view." 

McCain has praised the upcoming runoff election , but said it is unrealistic to expect Afghan governance to improve significantly without improved security. 

"It is essential to implement the properly-resourced counterinsurgency strategy that Gen. Stanley McChrystal and our senior commanders have called for," McCain said.

2 - THE DITHERING COINCIDED WITH AN ELECTION IN AFGHANISTAN THAT OBAMA ALLOWED THE UTTERLY CORRUPT KARZAI AND UNTRUSTWORTHY TO STEAL - TWICE.

3 - WHEN A LEFT-WING MAGAZINE THAT OPENLY FAVORED OBAMA, ROLLINGSTONE, SHANGHAIED MCCHRYSTAL AND HIS AIDES AND PUBLISHED OFF THE RECORD/OFF THE CUFF REMARKS BY THEM THAT WERE ACCURATELY DISPARAGING OF OBAMA AND BIDEN AND KERRY, OBAMA FIRED HIM.

CBS: On President Obama:

After Mr. Obama's was sworn into office, McChrystal felt the new president looked "uncomfortable and intimidated" while meeting with a dozen senior military officials in a Pentagon room known as the Tank, according to a source familiar with the meeting. Following McChrystal's first one-on-one meeting with the president, an aide said the general left disappointed.  

"It was a 10-minute photo op," the adviser said. "Obama clearly didn't know anything about him, who he was. Here's the guy who's going to run his [expletive] war, but he didn't seem very engaged. The Boss was pretty disappointed." 

McChrystal termed the president's three-month review of the U.S. military situation in Afghanistan before deciding to send more troops a "painful" time. 

4 - OBAMA REPLACED THE EXTREMELY ABLE MCCHRYSTAL WITH THE EXTREMELY ABLE PETRAEUS - BUT THEN TOOK PETRAEUS OUT AFTER ONLY A YEAR, AND PUT HIM IN THE NEST OF SNAKES AKA THE CIA.

5 - OBAMA APOLOGIZED FOR THE KORAN BURNING. THIS BIT OF APPEASEMENT REWARDED THE RIOTERS AND JIHADISTS AND HAS ENCOURAGED THEM TO DO MORE.

THE DITHERING AND THE TIMETABLE AND THE MERRY-GO-ROUND APPOINTMENTS AND THE APPEASEMENT OF JIHADISTS AND OF KARZAI HAS DOOMED US.


GEE: IT'S LIKE OBAMA DIDN'T REALLY WANT TO WIN. 


WHICH IS NOT VERY COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF-LIKE


VOTE ACCORDINGLY.