WHEN YOU'VE NEVER STOOD UP TO ANYONE...:

Military growing impatient with Obama on Afghanistan (Nancy A. Youssef, 9/19/09, McClatchy Newspapers)

In Kabul, some members of McChrystal's staff said they don't understand why Obama called Afghanistan a "war of necessity" but still hasn't given them the resources they need to turn things around quickly.

Three officers at the Pentagon and in Kabul told McClatchy that the McChrystal they know would resign before he'd stand behind a faltering policy that he thought would endanger his forces or the strategy.

"Yes, he'll be a good soldier, but he will only go so far," a senior official in Kabul said. "He'll hold his ground. He's not going to bend to political pressure."

...you aren't going to start with the US military. Democrats need to face facts: no matter what they'd like the UR to do, he simply doesn't have the political heft or moral gravitas for a fight like that.

Posted by Orrin Judd at September 22, 2009 11:21 AM