Myriads More Mired

Barack Hussein Obama campaigned that if elected, he would be a peace President. Obama promised he would end the illegitimate involvement that the last President Bush had started for the United States in Iraq. Iraq is teetering on instability with a renewed al-Qaeda bombing targeting embassies and even more disturbing, bombings aimed at reigniting sectarian violence between the Shia and the Sunni from which al-Qaeda is composed and draws its strength. Even the recent election in Iraq is causing problems with the result in dispute and this may provoke further chaos. US troops are still there and still dying despite Obama's promises to his peacenik base that they would not be. In Afghanistan, the conflict is even worse, with a massive US reinforcement arriving but being tied down by the most restrictive rules of engagement any American forces have ever been called to fight under- essentially being asked to serve as moving targets, as our casualties there skyrocket. US generals even publicly announce where our forces will next strike (Kandahar) hoping Taliban and al-Qaeda terrorists will depart before our forces arrive to avoid a bloodbath. So to both the leftists who brought Obama into office hoping for a speedy US retreat and to right-thinking Americans who seek victory and know it can never happen with our rules of engagement tying our hands behind our backs, Obama's war policy must be a major disappointment.