Those who can't lead - follow

Amazing.

Despite the obvious failure of the Republican plan for Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran throughout dubya’s tenure, they “stayed the course”. They were undaunted by history, facts and the advice of actual experts on the ground. Further, they kept repeating the talking point that anyone deviating from the GOP plan wanted the terrorists to win.

Barack Obama was one of those “deviants”. He has long advocated that “dubya’s war” against Iraq was a dangerous distraction from the war on terrorism. A battle whose primary front is in Afghanistan – namely the border region with Pakistan. Part of his plan has always been to get troops out of Iraq, and reassign some to Afghanistan. Further, he long has advocated dialog with Iran, as opposed to a military-posturing-only approach like the Republicans took. For this they labeled him as weak, naïve, unfit to lead, any much worse name-calling. These attacks continue, despite the fact that Obama’s policies are rooted in the advice of actual experts, rather than political spinsters.

Now that a Presidential election draws near, we see headlines like this:
www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/16/us.iran/index.html
www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/16/pentagon.troops/index.html

Now the Republicans are doing exactly what Obama has been advocating all along. The same courses of action that they previously ridiculed. The same courses of action that real experts have been advising for some time. The same courses of action that their political talking points said would “aid and comfort” the terrorists that want to attack America.

Amazing.