While President Obama fiddles with important issues, such as Chicago’s failed bid for the 2016 Olympics, Afghanistan burns.

We hear how we need to develop a strategy before acting, that we can not send troops into harm’s way without careful consideration and consultation with just about everyone… but our president is mistaking the hesitation before sending troops into a new engagement with the need for ensuring the men and women already engaged in combat have the necessary support.

We already have troops in harm’s way and our generals are saying they need reinforcements now, not later.

But that’s OK, nothing to worry about folks, because National Security Adviser Jim Jones is assuring us that the generals are mistaken:

Fox News – “I don’t foresee the return of the Taliban. Afghanistan is not in imminent danger of falling,” Jones said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“The Al Qaeda presence is very diminished,” he said. “The maximum estimate is less than 100 operating in the country, no bases, no ability to launch attacks on either us or our allies.”

Well that’s a relief.

Guess  those eight US and seven Afghan soldiers killed over the weekend when their outpost was attacked by several hundred fighters was the result of a misunderstanding… no one told the bad guys they had no ability to launch attacks.

Obama is considering a range of ideas for changing course in Afghanistan, including pulling back, staying put and sending more troops to fight the insurgency.

Well that just about covers it.  Glad they’ve narrowed down the options to:

1) More troops

2) Less troops

3) The same number of troops.

Brilliant!  Let’s celebrate.   Pass me a cup of that Jim Jones punch.

I thought candidate Obama was very clear where he stood on Afghanistan and on following the advice of military people for military decisions.

Candidate Obama insisted this is a war we must win and that any attack on the US will likely originate from Afghanistan.  He said he would make fighting the Taliban and Al Qaeda the top priority it should be (of course he meant after health care reform, the Chicago Olympics bid, Cap and Trade, etc) and committed to sending “at least two additional combat brigades” to Afghanistan:

A very well read speech… a shame he appears to not read with comprehension.

According to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton:

FoxNews: “I think that the Pakistani government is basically abdicating to the Taliban and to the extremists. But look at why this is happening,” she told the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “If you talk to people in Pakistan, especially in the ungoverned territories, which are increasing in number, they don’t believe the state has a judiciary system that works.”

That’s the answer all right.  If Pakistan, or any country for that matter, wants to prevent terrorists from taking over, they need a judiciary system that works.

Yeah, that’ll stop ‘em.  Arrest the Taliban, throw their butts in jail.

I hope President Barack Hussein Obama has a better plan than that.  Are we really counting on Pakistan to prevent a Taliban takeover?

Isn’t this just a wee bit too important to wait and hope that verbal admonishments from the US Secretary of State in front of a House subcommittee will somehow wake up Pakistan and they will fix their judiciary system, thereby stopping the Taliban in their tracks?

Let’s consider, for the moment, the remote chance that a better judiciary in Pakistan will, against all odds, not prevent the Taliban from getting their hands on some of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal.. then what?

HRC and BHO spend so much time pointing to the perceived failures of the Bush administration, they are totally blinded to their mounting failures….  and we may all pay the price for their arrogant, narcissist induced ignorance.

Pray they wake up before the Taliban has some new toys… the alternative may be the first nuclear exchange in the history of our planet…

And that would be very bad for Mother Earth…