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THE CONSERVATIVE REVIEW - December 4, 2009
Hamlet as War President
by Pat Buchanan
Led by a conflicted president of a divided party and
nation, America is deepening her involvement in a war
in its ninth year with no end in sight.
Only one parallel to Barack Obama's troop decision comes
to mind: the 2007 decision by George W. Bush to ignore
the Baker Commission and put Gen. David Petraeus in
command of a "surge" of 30,000 troops into Iraq.
That surge succeeded. Baghdad was largely pacified. The
Sunni of Anbar, heart of the resistance, accepted Petraeus'
offer of cash and a role in the new Iraq. Together,
Americans and Sunni began to eradicate al-Qaida. In July,
the surge ended and U.S. troops withdrew from the cities.
In August and October, however, the Finance, Justice and
Foreign ministries were bombed. The Sons of Iraq now say
the Shia government reneged on its pledge to pay their
wages and bring them into the army.
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Jockeying in parliament for the inside track to power
in January's elections may force a postponement of the
elections, and of the U.S. timetable for withdrawal. Kurds
and Arabs are battling over Kirkuk. Iraqis seem to be
going back to fighting one another.
What hope can there be then for a U.S. troop surge in
Afghanistan, a larger, wilder, less accessible, more
backward country, whose regime is less competent and more
corrupt than that in Iraq?
Conservative columnist Tony Blankley, who supported the
Iraq war and surge, has come out against more troops in
Afghanistan. His reasoning: Obama will be sending many
hundreds of young Americans to their deaths and thousands
to be wounded in a war about which he himself has doubts.
While it may speak well of Obama as a man that he has
reflected, agonized, debated within himself and conducted
nine war counsels with scores of advisers before acceding
to Gen. McChrystal's request, what does this say of him as
commander in chief?
Whatever one may say against George W. Bush, he was
decisive. As was James K. Polk when he sent Winfield Scott
to take Mexico City. As was Abraham Lincoln when he
congratulated Gen. Sherman on his barbarous March to the
Sea. As was Harry Truman, who ordered the dropping of an
atom bomb to jolt Tokyo into accepting unconditional
surrender.
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One may condemn the wars these president fought. One may
deplore their tactics. But they and the most successful
American generals -- Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant,
Douglas MacArthur, George Patton -- were not Hamlets. They
did not agonize over why they were fighting or whether it
was worth it.
How does a president lead a nation into a war where he is
not wholly and heartily committed to victory and from
which, say his aides, he is even now planning the earliest
possible exit?
When Dwight Eisenhower took office, he concluded that the
price of uniting Korea under a pro-U.S. government meant
years more of war and scores of thousands more U.S. dead.
He decided on an armistice. In six months, the war was
over.
Ike was as decisive as Obama is diffident.
From tapes of his conversations with Sen. Richard Russell,
LBJ agonized over Vietnam as early as 1964. He worried
about the U.S. casualties and whether we could prevail
in a country of little interest to him and of no vital
strategic interest to the United States.
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Out of fear that Richard Nixon and Barry Goldwater would
call him the first president to lose a war, Johnson plunged
in. And rather than win swiftly and brutally as we had
with a mighty Japanese Empire, LBJ fought Vietnam as the
conflicted war president he was, babbling on about building
"a Great Society on the Mekong."
One senses Obama is escalating for the same reason: He is
not so much exhilarated by the prospect of victory and what
it will mean as he is fearful of what a Taliban triumph
and U.S. defeat would mean for America -- and him.
And he is right to be. A U.S. withdrawal leading to a
Taliban triumph would electrify jihadists from Marrakech
to Mindanao and mark a milestone in the long retreat of
American power. Pakistan, having cast its lot with us,
would be in mortal peril. NATO, humiliated in its first
war, would become more of a hollow shell than it already
is.
To prevent this, Obama plans to send tens of thousands
more U.S. troops to hold off a resurgent Taliban, even
as he plans for their eventual withdrawal.
The United States is today led by a commander in chief who
does not believe military victory is possible, who is not
sure this war should be fought and who has a timetable in
his own mind as to when to draw down our troops. And we
face a Taliban that, after eight years of pounding, is
stronger than ever, and believes God is on its side and
its victory is assured.
Who do we think is ultimately going to prevail?
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