A Stretched and tired army

What a busy day it has been. Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, has stated a major change of policy in which the military deploys it troops in the "war on terror". They will now have to serve fifteen months and have only twelve at home. If this is not an indication of a stretched to the limits army then i don't know what is. Just wait after a policy shift like this will come the well we might need a draft again. I know one thing, if my son needs to fight for his country it had better be a result of a direct threat to these shores and not a threat to the passage of oil from the Persian Gulf. All of this mess could have been avoided if only the President, who has shown that he can always be counted on to make bad decisions,stayed away from Iraq. War is a costly and certainly a very risky venture, any time you offer lives up as an extension of policy things can get a little muddy. And in this case they have. The President has failed to execute a plan that would have addressed the aftermath of our great military victory and has thus relied upon the advise of advisers who have failed him constantly and who have had no if any foresight in dealing with this mistake. Just listen to the statements of some of the retired generals one of which stated that those people in the White House don't know where they want to go over there. Once again the real war the one the President would have had no problem rallying Americans around was in Afghanistan, which now, thanks to the strain of Iraq, seems to be rearing it ugly head again. The President's mess has accomplished something though, it has allowed the congress to once again be taken control of by the Democrats and to that I tip my hat to him. The President has sated his displeasure at Speaker's trip to the middle east and her visit with the Syrian President , well nothing else has worked and everyday your policy is getting more and more of our young men and women killed so why not talk, wasn't it the Iraq study group that came out and said that dialog is the key to middle east peace not silence. Mr. President I never thought I would ever have to say this but I can't wait for your last day in office and on that January day when you hand over a broken country and world to a democrat I will again smile. Your two terms has only proven that our system of selection can fail us in choosing the right person for the job. And that it has only shown that the election of the President is not always the right man or woman but the most popular, sort of like American Idol is not about the best singer but the best looking as well. Wake up America they are once again leading us into that valley of death.