Labor of Love

More US troops have given the last full measure of devotion in the war in Afghanistan that Obama is mismanaging. The leftist polemicists on some of the Sunday shows even questioned whether we face a "day of the generals" and that those opposing Obama's tactical and strategic failures and dereliction need to be quickly batted down. McChrystal, according to radical shrew Katrina Vanden Heuvel, needs to be reminded that the military is under civilian leadership and suggests Obama even faces the semblance of a coup d'etat. Our forces, even before Obama tightened rules of engagement, were not in Afghanistan to conquer or subjugate or kill indiscriminately. There were and are no resources in Afghanistan we want or ever wanted. We went there under Bush not for vengeance or against the Afghan people, but to free the Afghan people from the tyrannical grip of the Taliban who ran a misogynist Wahhab murder mill, repressing women and destroying the patrimony of other faiths. Of course, the primary casus belli was the fact that the Taliban sheltered Osama bin Laden, facilitated the September 11, 2001 unprovoked carnage against America, and then refused to eject or hand over bin Laden and al Qaeda, even after bin Laden proudly took credit for the attack. Americans on the ground in the fighting are there because of our inherent goodness as liberators, for the love of humanity, and primarily not because of chauvinism, nationalism, or jingo, but because our beloved homeland came under monstrous sneak attack.