On a side note, I keep getting spammed by some Russian mail order bride company. I don’t know why. Most of them show up on the “Call Me Ishmael” post. So I’ve changed the comment moderation settings – for posts over two weeks old, your comments will be moderated. I think that will cut off the flow of Call Me Ishmael mail order crap. If you want a Russian mail order bride, I have no interest in providing any assistance in the process. <\/p>\n
My eight-year-old son Corbin is disturbed very much by war. For as long as he\u2019s had memory, this nation has been at war in response to the attacks of September 11, 2001. Not long ago, he asked his parents whether or not wars ever end.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s a question that President Obama inappropriately answered the other night. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s been said before, and it needs to be said again: no one wants war. But simply pulling troops out before the job is done doesn\u2019t bring peace. All it does is return us to a time when the other side was the only one fighting. Afghanistan, for years, was a failed state ruled by a brutal regime that aided and harbored the terrorists who struck us on 9\/11. If we leave Afghanistan now, we\u2019ll allow it to return to that condition and create a breeding ground for more assaults on America. <\/p>\n
We can\u2019t let that happen. <\/p>\n
For part of President Obama\u2019s speech, it seemed as if he understood that. He was making the case for committing additional troops to the area, which is a hard sell to a war-weary nation. But his commitment was halfhearted, because he promised to have all the troops out of Afghanistan by 2013. <\/p>\n
This is the worst of all possible worlds. <\/p>\n
The deadline sends a terrible message to our enemies. It lets them know that all they have to do is wait us out for the next three years, and then, it\u2019s business as usual. It says that America can be outlasted, and that our commitment to freedom only goes so far. <\/p>\n
Of course, many Democrats are upset that he\u2019s willing to continue military action at all. So, in order to appease them, he\u2019s set a deadline for the war to be over, whether or not it actually is. I can\u2019t judge the president\u2019s motives, but I think it would be abhorrent to make life-and-death decisions about putting our troops in harm\u2019s way based on political calculation. Rightly or wrongly, this deadline for troop withdrawal creates that impression, and it does nothing to boost the morale and confidence of those brave men and women who stand ready to make the ultimate sacrifice on our behalf. <\/p>\n
Still, President Obama is our Commander-in-Chief, and I consider it my duty to support him on this. I have every confidence that we can win this conflict if we have the political will to do so. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s a good thing nobody set a deadline for the end of World War II.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ona side note, I keep getting spammed by some Russian mail order bride company. I don't know why. Most of them show up on the \"Call Me Ishmael\" post. So I've changed the comment moderation settings - for posts over two weeks old, your comments will be moderated. I think that will cut off the ... Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5210,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/5210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}