Liz Cheney

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What a poser.

October 29, 2009
The Audacity of Image: Obama at Dover
Monte Kuligowski

Some journalists, most notably Ben Feller of the Associated Press, are fawning over President Obama’s pre-dawn photo op at Dover Air Force Base earlier today. Feller should be ashamed of himself by insinuating that, though former President George W. Bush spent volumes of time with grieving family members, Obama really cares. Mr. Obama, unlike Bush, actually greeted the flag covered corpses of servicemen returning from Afghanistan. This was the one time when Bush should have been left out of the story.

Back to the fawning: Wow. What a president. When most people were sleeping Obama was up braving the darkness in Marine One. Arriving before the dawn, Mr. Obama stood erect brandishing a military salute in honor of the 18 servicemen killed this week in Afghanistan. The bodies were taken from the cargo plane and carried past the solemn president. Incidentally, if Obama came to privately honor the dead before the break of day why were cameras necessary?

He came. He saw. He honored. And he pulled off yet another publicity stunt to hide the fact that the dead were possibly the proximate cause of Obama’s dithering.

Let’s recap. Back in March Obama unveiled his Afghanistan plan:

“If the Afghanistan government falls to the Taliban or allows al-Qaida to go unchallenged,” Obama said, “that country will again be a base for terrorists.” Therefore, Obama’s “clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaida . . . .”

But then it came to light at the end of September that the President had only met with the commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, one time.

That led to McChrystal’s summons to Air Force One in Copenhagen. McChrystal happened to be near by. Good thing Obama was out campaigning for the Chicago Olympics. At least something positive came out of the Copenhagen mission.

Mr. Obama got McChrsystal’s report in back in August and yet called no meeting with the general. After the awkward Air Force One meeting, Obama still dithered.

Obama wanted to get the runoff election results before sending more troops. Some have suggested he actually was waiting for the election results in Virginia and New Jersey. Now, Obama says he needs another study on Afghanistan before sending more troops.

Meanwhile troops are dying in Afghanistan. In October, American troop deaths reached an all time high at 55.

But not to worry; Obama’s arrival at Dover makes everything right . . .

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