From our Friends at the National Review:
Obama spokesmen now say everyone knew that President Bush’s troop surge would create more security. This is blatantly false. Obama said in early 2007 that nothing in the surge plan would “make a significant dent in the sectarian violence,” and the new strategy would “not prove to be one that changes the dynamics significantly.” He referred to the surge derisively as “baby-sit(ting) a civil war.”
Now that the civil war has all but ended, he wants to claim retroactive clairvoyance. In a New York Times op-ed laying out his position, Obama credits the heroism of our troops and new tactics with bringing down the violence. Our troops have always been heroic; what made the difference was the surge strategy that Obama lacked the military judgment — or political courage — to support.
Yeah, Wright brothers. Everybody knew that plane would fly. This guy is sounding more like the Nostradamus freaks, the ones who say after the fact that he predicted this or that. Where was he when it mattered? Where was he when it meant something?
And could Obama and his spokespeople explain his shifting views in less than a year? I mean, the guy either has no principles or is so easily swayed of a new position because he has little in the way of cognitive discernment. Either way, he shouldn't be president.
As Glenn Reynolds said in regard to this article:
It was the audacity of hopelessness, and it was a miserable failure. He's counting on the press to make sure nobody notices.
