Will Obama Follow Through in Afghanistan?

By Oliver North, at Human Events:

With all the preparations for the biggest, most expensive and most restrictive inaugural celebration in history, this is probably not the time to remind our President-elect of things he said and wrote, promises made or commitments pledged. Perhaps one of his new aides will clip and save this for his perusal later next week.

Candidate Obama repeatedly described Afghanistan as “the central front in the war on terror.” Sometimes, he included neighboring Pakistan, which he occasionally threatened to attack. After a brief visit to Afghanistan in July 2008, he said that “one of the biggest mistakes we’ve made strategically” was “failing to finish the job.” He used a sports metaphor, “We took our eye off the ball,” to accuse his predecessor of being “distracted by Iraq.” Then he pledged that if elected, “I will once and for all dismantle al Qaeda and the Taliban.” That is what we were told by once Senator, now President-elect, soon to be Commander in Chief, Barack Obama. But that’s not what he is saying today.  [Read More]