Sen. McCain Hit His Highness Hard
May 29th, 2008 at 01:31am Gary Gross
Lost in the discussion about what the Golden Child’s motivation was in talking about his uncle…um, great-uncle…um…grandfather liberating Auschwitz…um…Buchenwald is how intellectually curious Sen. Obama is while challenging his decisionmaking and understanding of Iraq. Here’s how Sen. McCain accomplished that:
“Sen. Obama has been to Iraq once, a little over two years ago he went and he has never seized the opportunity except in a hearing to meet with Gen. [David] Petraeus,” McCain said at a campaign event in Reno, Nevada. “My friends, this is about leadership and learning.”
Again raising the issue of Obama’s willingness to meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, McCain also said of the Illinois senator, “He wants to sit down with the president of Iran but hasn’t yet sat down with Gen. Petraeus, the leader of our troops in Iraq?”
I’d think that a minimal requirement for being commander-in-chief is learning firsthand what our guys are doing, especially in war zones. Another requirement would be understanding the consequences of the decisions he makes. We can only speculate on the damage Sen. Obama’s immediate troop withdrawal policy would have on the region, on the jihadists and on the Maliki government. What’s beyond speculation, though, is that removing our troops at the rate Sen. Obama is talking about would embolden the jihadists.
People tried characterizing then-Gov. Bush as lacking intellectual curiosity with regards to foreign policy. At the time, that was treated as speculation because proof didn’t exist that substantiated that claim. Now, however, we’ve got proof because of what Sen. Obama has utterly ignored. What’s worse is that Sen. Obama wouldn’t seek the advice of Gen. Petraeus or Gen. Odierno. We know that because of this Washington Post article:
Obama, who opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq, has said that there is no military solution to the conflict and that he would start bringing troops home after becoming president to force Iraqi factions to resolve their differences. Obama said he would withdraw about one to two combat brigades a month, with the goal of having all of them out within 16 months.
Nowhere does Obama say that he’d condition his removing troops on what the field commanders told him. They’re coming out even if Gen. Odierno or Gen. Petraeus recommend that they stay. That, my friends, is the epitome of elitism. Sen. Obama hasn’t had the time or the inclination to learn about the military. He’s refused to travel to Iraq to learn firsthand what’s happening there.
In short, Sen. Obama is utterly unqualified to be commander-in-chief. What’s worse is that he hasn’t shown any inclination to learn enough to be commander-in-chief.
It’s time we woke up to the realization that we shouldn’t send a toy messiah to do a man’s job.
Entry Filed under: McCain Watch, Obama Watch
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