War, for Barack Obama, is sim­ply a to-do on his cal­en­dar.  In this he is as bad as any chicken hawk rush­ing to send our cit­i­zens to war, yet not will­ing to put them­selves or their fam­i­lies at risk.  As a vet­eran of the U.S. Navy, I am per­son­ally offended that Pres­i­dent Obama treats war as some­thing to sim­ply sched­ule on his pres­i­den­tial calendar.

Dur­ing a sur­prise visit to Afghanistan in May, Obama said the war would be com­plete by 2014.  “We have a clear path to ful­fill our mis­sion in Afghanistan” and “Our troops will be com­ing home.”

Over the past week Obama began stat­ing explic­itly that he’d have U.S. troops out of Afghanistan and home by 2014:

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“I put for­ward a spe­cific plan to bring our troops home from Afghanistan by the end of 2014. We are in the process of doing that right now,” Obama said Sat­ur­day dur­ing a speech in Sioux City, Iowa. “And when I say I’m going to bring them home, you know they’re going to come home.”  Souix City, Iowa, Sept. 1

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“We are bring­ing our troops home from Afghanistan. And I’ve set a timetable. We will have them all out of there by 2014.” Boul­der, Col­orado, Sept. 2

Then the backped­dle. “He never said that all the troops would be out.”—White House press sec­re­tary Jay Car­ney.  Continue reading→