We need "a warrior," not "a flower child."
The anguished mother of an American soldier killed in Afghanistan said this about President Barack Obama. She objects to the rules of engagement, which she feels caused her son's death. The recent Rolling Stone piece on the former Afghanistan commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, showed widespread troop disapproval of these rules, designed to minimize civilian casualties but which increase the danger to coalition soldiers in the field.
But this is the mindset of Obama.
As a candidate for president, Obama criticized President George W. Bush for "wrongly" taking the nation to war in Iraq and thus "neglecting"...












President Obama, Make the Case for Afghanistan -- or Get Out