Military Worried About Obama as Commander in Chief
The Washington Times reports today that many military leaders are concerned about the potential election of Barack Obama as president. Here is a quote from General John Keane, who was an architect of “the surge” in U.S. forces in Iraq.
“Anyone who is advocating a precipitous pullout of U.S. forces, believing this will be a catalyst for political progress, does not understand the realities of Iraq and the minds of the key political leaders,” Gen. Keane told The Washington Times. “The U.S. military presence is the glue that is holding things together in Iraq and is the fundamental reason for the recent political progress. If you remove this presence, the political leaders in Iraq will believe they are on their own and will fall prey to their own fears and paranoia. … They will bunker down and the political progress will come to a dead stop.”
Obama’s inexperience, lack of military service and tired liberal rhetoric on Iraq does not bode well in a matchup against Senator McCain. I have been reading Obama’s article in Foreign Affairs where he lays out his foreign policy views, and I must say that I am not impressed. His plan for combating al Qaeda and other Islamists? World socialism. He wants to pour billions and billions of dollars into more foreign aid for education, health care and jobs in the Arab/Muslim world. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of Islamist terrorism and I think the American people will find this to be a ridiculous position.