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WASHINGTON -- At the conclusion of the 1939 movie "Gone With the Wind," Vivien Leigh, playing Scarlett O'Hara, defers decision on what to do about the major crisis in her life with this sentence: "After all, tomorrow is another day." Unfortunately, the Obama White House seems to have adopted Scarlett's decision-making process for the war in Afghanistan. Note to the O-Team: Kabul isn't Tara -- and Americans are dying while the commander in chief dithers.
On Wednesday, Sept. 30, a full month after Gen. Stanley McChrystal submitted his "assessment" of the situation in Afghanistan, Mr. Obama convened a three-hour meeting...
Common Sense: Chasing Olympic Gold
In this case, he went to Copenhagen to lobby for the Chicago/US bid for the 2016 Summer Games. The people who are criticizing him for this, I GUARANTEE IT, did not criticize Bush for spending 4 days at the Beijing Olympics, even though Obama's efforts here had a greater potential benefit to the US. If he hadn't gone, we know that most of you would have criticized him for not going when Chicago didn't win. So, in a way that you don't yet (and may never) grasp, we understand...