Obama sells out to enemy propaganda

Captain's Quarters:

The primary campaign has turned into a very long dance for Barack Obama, who seems determined to prove at every opportunity that he has two left feet. In New Hampshire, Obama told a crowd that the US military effort consists mainly of "air raiding villages and killing civilians" -- which his tone-deaf campaign confirmed moments later to reporters (via The Corner):

Obama defended his push to prosecute a tougher military effort to root out al-Qaida on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, which drew criticism from primary rivals for sounding too bellicose.

“Now you have narco drug lords who are helping to finance the Taliban, so we’ve got to get the job done there, and that requires us to have enough troops that we are not just air raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous problems there,’’ Obama said.

Campaign spokesman Reid Cherlin said Obama was not endorsing the current Bush policy, which consists solely of air raids and bombing of civilians.

The NATO troops in Afghanistan would beg to differ. They don't have a policy of bombing civilians, and the ground troops play a very important role in defending Afghanistan's villages from the depravities of Taliban control. Perhaps Obama can explain his analysis of military strategy and tactics to the ground troops that get wounded in these battles -- or to the families of the dead soldiers who died holding ground against the radical Islamists.

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What he is falling for is the enemy's victim strategy to cover it losses in Afghanistan when it masses its forces to attack our forces or other members of the coalition. The claims of civilian casualties are suspect to begin with since the Taliban camouflage themselves as civilians and do not even wear dog tags. They are also so desperate for forces that they are using very young boys in their operations and they use their wounds to imply attacks against civilians. What they are trying to do is get us to restrain the use of the weapon that has defeated their tradition ambush methods of attack--air power. Obama is demonstrating what a poor choice he would be as a leader by falling for this ruse.