As I watched our Commander in Chief this evening addressing the nation on the troop surge in Afghanistan, I can’t help from having a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach. I have two sons and two nephews in active service, my nephew is on his third mid east tour, presently in Afghanistan. I look at Obama as nothing more than a community organizer and a young Chicago attorney with not one lick of experience. I fear for my sons and nephews that this man doesn’t have a clue and now their lives our directly in his hands. How in the world did such a thing happen to this nation. I do not trust Obama, nor his patriotism towards this Republic. I see him as a Marxist with a socialist agenda and political correctness.

Afghanistan is going to be another whole war and not just any war. It’s going to be nothing like Iraq, it’s going to get bloody. The Russians couldn’t do it over a ten year period, even Alexander the great couldn’t bring down Afghanistan. My only comfort is in General McChrystal and his team who are the most clear-eyed and determined command group the United States has had in Afghanistan in years. I pray Obama will put my sons and this war before his Presidential legacy or politics. Obama needs to do this right and give the Generals and troops everything they need.

Obama appeared to be using the same lines that Bush used in his speech for the surge in Iraq, that bothered me. Obama is just a spokesman for the liberal extremist progressives, which is evident by whom he has surrounded himself with some of the most radical and controversial Czars in US history.

The 4 SEALS who are up on charges for roughing up a terrorist will be walking into court this Monday. I plan on attending this protest in Norfolk, Va to let Obama know that political correctness is not going to win this war, it’s going to get more of our troops killed. If Obama had a pair, he would give these 4 SEALS a Presidential pardon and put them back on the battle field.

Just a few thoughts that I wanted to get off my chest, no fancy article, just common sense concerns I got with this man being Commander in Chief, taking 6 months to make a decision after he campaigned on the war during his Presidential campaign. You don’t have that kind of time and loose lipped campaigning of a war that you claimed to support, then make the Generals wait 6 months for a decision.

Bottom line Afghanistan is going to be one of the bloodiest and hard fought battles than any that ever took place in Iraq. The Taliban will hold nothing back and will fight to the death, taking as many US troops with them as they can.

There are causes for concern in the president’s remarks: the unconditional start of a transition to Afghan responsibility in July 2011; the refusal to set an appropriately high target for the size of Afghan security forces; and the provision of fewer U.S. troops than McChrystal originally requested. Nevertheless, the task of securing Afghanistan is critical, and with the extra forces there is a reasonable prospect.

War is hell, it’s even worse when you have a President that thinks he is going to have a quick surge and exit strategy. That part scares the hell out of me, it tells me he doesn’t have a clue.

Randy Dye