Pamela Geller, Newsmax: Obama Making America Less Safe

My latest at Newsmax: Excerpt:

Just last week, a Muslim in New York was indicted for plotting to kill
American troops. Another 24 are being sought. A New York imam, an FBI informant
turned double agent, tipped off the would-be bomber that the FBI was on his
tail. Another Muslim was arrested in Dallas for plotting to blow up an office
building. Yet another Muslim was charged in a plot to blow up a federal building
in Springfield, Ill. Other Muslims have been accused of plotting an attack on
the Quantico Marine base. And other Muslims disappeared after arousing suspicion
while photographing the Philadelphia subway system. How long do you think you
have?

And while all this is happening, what is Obama doing? He is being tough in
Afghanistan at least, right? If he is, he isn’t taking much of an active
interest. The commander of our troops in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal,
said in an interview broadcast Sunday: “I’ve talked to the president, since I’ve
been here, once on a VTC .” CBS’ David Martin asked a
follow-up question: “You’ve talked to him once in 70 days?” McChrystal said:
“That is correct.”

Obama wasn’t always this indifferent. During the election he banged on the
Afghan war drum. Afghanistan was the “good” war, Iraq the “bad” war. Afghanistan
was neglected. That’s where the real action was, according to Gen. Obama, where
the war on jihad, the war on terror, the overseas contingency operation (as the
Obama administration now calls it) really was. Afghanistan was where Obama would
redeploy our troops.

It was a marketing strategy for a man with a very different agenda.

Obama is not a wartime president, and certainly no commander in chief. He is
sending thousands to their death in Afghanistan for no purpose, no objective. As
Obama said recently, “victory is not the goal.” His meandering, procrastination,
and indecision are a prescription for casualties (the wrong kind: ours, not
theirs). It makes no sense strategically. A weak, aimless strategy gets our boys
killed.

America should be outraged.

Obama’s contempt for the military is palpable. Since he took office, we have
been experiencing the highest U.S. troop casualty rate ever in Afghanistan,
month after month. Why is Obama keeping our finest young Americans there when
victory is not the objective? If he has no goal and no plan for victory, he
should bring our soldiers home. Obama’s aimless, useless operation in
Afghanistan is a death trap.

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