Stop Whining Mr. President

I used to think it was grossly unfair for the right-wing republicans to blame President Obama for the debt crisis and all the ills in the economy, and when he defended himself by reminding his critics that he had inherited the entire economic disaster from GW Bush, I would agree completely.

Not anymore.

With all due respect, Mr. President, you knew in 2007 that GW Bush's economic bomb had exploded yet you continued to run for the presidency, confident that you can bring change to Washington and hope to a world ruined by GW Bush. On the day you were sworn in, you inherited all of GW Bush's ruins that became a growing cancer that you had to excise. Instead of cleaning up GW Bush's failures, you together with your democratic Congress added to them by listening to the same voices that spoke to GW Bush and spending money that the United States did not have. Today, you own all of his failures and those of yours. Therefore, please show your courage and as a leader accept the responsibilities that you ran to undertake and admit your failures.

Your only defense is time, that it takes time for the economy to recover, except that time is not on your side. The next election is about 15 months away. I have been harsh in my criticism, but I have been also been fair. Perhaps history will be kinder and I believe it will.

If there is any hope left for a second term, and if my vote for you can still have meaning for me, then you have to take that bold gamble as commander-in-chief and disengage from involvement in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan, not years from now but now, and don't even think of meddling in Syria or the Mid-east. If worse come to worst, drop a tiny nuclear bomb. It's fast, it's easy and it's a game changer. Of course, people will be upset but people are upset now, so what difference does it make?

Afghanistan War

I suppose there are always reasons to start a war. GW Bush started two. He said God told him to do so:

In Elusive Peace: Israel and the Arabs, a major three-part series on BBC TWO (at 9.00pm on Monday 10, Monday 17 and Monday 24 October), Abu Mazen, Palestinian Prime Minister, and Nabil Shaath, his Foreign Minister, describe their first meeting with President Bush in June 2003.


Nabil Shaath says: "President Bush said to all of us: 'I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, "George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan." And I did, and then God would tell me, "George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq ." And I did. ...'"
See http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/10_october/06/bush.shtml

I suppose there are reasons to stay on fighting a war, even though they are different from the reasons for having started it in the first place.

Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein are both dead. US soldiers are still being killed. Thirty-one special ops, mostly Navy SEALs died today. What does God say now, GW Bush? Why haven't you ended the war in Afghanistan already, President Obama?