David Thomson:
The Iraqi people should enjoy their relative peaceful existence while they can. The self-hating American Barack Obama is now president-elect—and he will try to destroy our allies. This is his existential default position. In Obama’s heart of hearts, the United States is a vile and despicable nation undeserving of military victories of any sort.
Funny, that is not how 53% of the American people who voted see the President-Elect. Nor, it should be added, the vast bulk of Americans who voted for his opponent, McCain.
I posit that only a fringe of Right-Wing whack jobs such as yourself believe that drivel.
I believe Obama was wrong about Iraq, wrong about the Surge. I think he will continue to make his share of mistakes in office and fail to lead on matters he should have led on – while hopefully not performing as catastrophically and toxically as Bush did.
I don’t see soon to be President Obama as a malignant soul. I don’t see him as trying to destroy America – but working to help bring us back from how far we have fallen economically and internationally. I have doubts about his experience, some of his associates..if he will be as beholden to HIS special interest groups as Bush was to HIS, to the nation’s detriment.
My prayers are with Obama, that he does well, and that he continues to have luck and circumstances favor him.
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One thing I am certain of. President Elect or New President Barack Obama could well benefit from a sitdown of half an hour with Michael Yon on an independent assessment of our troops and how to better shape America’s wartime communications to it’s people and to the world.
Someone like Yon is very valuable, in field since 1998, familiar with not just Iraq and Afghanistan but other hotspots..and free of the PhD academic think tank crowd or the Pentagon Party Line.
