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| Five lads fit for service. Fit to volunteer. photo from here |
This link on Obama cutting losses and letting Afghanistan govern itself as Iraq is now doing. Same link on the Commander in Chief being that, not letting top brass call the shots by extending the quagmire.
Mitt Romney questions this; ostensibly rattling sabres being music to his ears.
Wikipedia notes:
| Personal details | |
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| Born | Willard Mitt Romney March 12, 1947 Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Ann Romney (m. 1969) |
| Children | Taggart (b. 1970) Matthew (b. 1971) Joshua (b. 1975) Benjamin (b. 1978) Craig (b. 1981) |
Strappling young lads all, the five Romney boys, each fit to volunteer for ground duty in any ongoing war of their [father's] choice; (Afghanistan being the only active one for substantial US ground forces since half of the Buscho war adventures were ended); and then, by that family effort at putting its true faith where the Mittster's mouth is moving, is something that just might generate a shred or two of Mittster credibility.
Wanting other people's children to risk life and limb while his stay home and play polo, risking injury from falling off a horse or being clobbered by an errant polo mallet; that is not really something that impresses me much.
It's chicken-hawk, redux. Offspring version, (not Cheney-direct Vietnam vintage).
When Taggart, Matthew, Joshua, Benjamin and Craig are in uniform fitted out with weapons and on the ground under hostile circumstances and not rear-echelon photo op stuff in Kuwait, or the Emirates, then I believe the man's sincerity. Then and only then will I trust the enunciated Romney website posture as bona fide warmongering talk, and planned to be done with non-expendable people [remember, he has said he does not care about the poor].
Unless and until at least one of those sons shows combat willingness, Romney is blowing all the warmongering out his shorts.
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| But not my kids. Read it all, every word, this link. |
__________UPDATE__________
After French elections, the French will accelerate their withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, leaving by year's end. This link. Romney has yet to say what reaction he believes the US should show to French decision-making. As a war advocate, will he propose a go-it-alone thing, or allow that Obama's approach is wise in light of public opinion in the US?
Or will he as always glibly say, "Some of my friends feel one way, some the other, and I agree with my friends." It's the nature of a waffle to have two identifiable opposite faces, each time, every time.
FURTHER UPDATE: Reuters.