George W. Obama Is Still the Decider
Oh well. Barack Obama may still end up being a great president, but he's struggling a bit. Earl is right that Afghanistan is the war he always wanted, and there should be no surprise there.
But the disappointment, for me, comes from two sources.
One involves how Obama is positively Bushy in his obliviousness about the roots of conflict -- and especially of the Hydra effect when fighting terrorists in a way that inflames people in Afghanistan and Pakistan who can't keep track of whether the enemy comes from within or from the West.
The other one involves how he doesn't keep track of price tags. I can't buy certain things I once planned to buy, because of fiscal realities. Washington rarely understands this when planning wars or domestic programs, whether a conservative Republican like Reagan or a liberal Democrat like Obama is in charge. Oh, for the balanced-budget days of Clinton...
You never have gotten this entirely right. Reagan cut taxes, income increased, and CONGRESS INCREASED SPENDING.
Any Republicans who joined with the spend-happy Democrats in voting for such nonsense were exactly the same kind of Republi-Crats we have now, whose inability to rein in their spending is killing us.
The federal government is the Hydra.
So. Obama is not delivering on ending wars, and he's advocating spending us into oblivion. Yup, he may still end up being a great president... exactly how would that happen, again?