"Slow-motion train wreck"

Bolton is absolutely right, as usual, in this excellent interview.

What some are calling "due deliberation" by Obama on Afghanistan is nothing but months of indecision and pure lack of leadership. With troops taking casualties in the field and morale collapsing, Obama continues to look in vain for some way to split the difference. He has to make a tough decision, but he's clueless and weak, so he's paralyzed. The pattern of leaks suggests growing division and unrest within the Obama national defense/foreign policy team.

Obysmal claims to be delaying because of concerns about corruption, etc., in Karzai's government, which is ludicrous. As Bolton points out, the critically important problem here is the future of nuclear Pakistan, which would become vastly more precarious with a Taliban regime next door. It makes no sense whatever to make the future of Pakistan hostage to concerns about governmental corruption in Afghanistan. Good grief.

In that part of the world, it is still the case that the quantity of government is more important that its quality. If Obama waits for an end to government corruption in Afghanistan, he will wait forever. And if Pakistan goes up for grabs, which it could, Obama will find out what real trouble looks like.

Clueless, weak, and indecisive, Obama is just the kind of individual who has no business being Commander and Chief.

Byron