Cassandra tries to reason with Obama:
It’s your choice, Mr. President. But if you can look into those eyes and abandon these women [victims of the Taliban who have acid thrown in their faces] to the rule of monsters, then honor is dead.
Whether or not you like the choices you’ve been afforded, you campaigned on the premise that Afghanistan was a war we couldn’t afford to lose. You promised to resource it adequately. Nothing has happened to change the basic realities on the ground. You knew in March that Karzai was considered likely to win the election, so the notion that all of a sudden, we can’t work with his “illegitimate” government is laughable.
You knew the deal back in March when you announced your carefully considered and comprehensive strategy. If you failed to do your homework with regard to the cost, the troop numbers, or whether you could work with Karzai, then shame on you. Because those questions were all on the table back then and it was your job to consider them and make a decision.
I and thousands of military families expected you to do your job back in March.
We’re still waiting. 815 American service men and women have died in Afghanistan. They didn’t fight and die so you could turn Jim Mattis’ motto on its face; so that potential allies would look at America and think, “No Worse Friend, No Better Enemy.” To the extent that others fear us, they should fear our wrath—not a stab in the back from a nation they thought was an ally.
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There hasn’t been a democrat that we could trust the safety of the country to since Ronald Reagan switched parties.