After a typical laundry list of empty boasts, fantasy policy prescriptions, and outright falsehoods, Obama introduced America to Cory Remsburg, “a proud Army Ranger,” who “on his tenth deployment was nearly killed by a massive roadside bomb in Afghanistan.”
Remsburg’s sacrifice is plain to see: He has a long, visible scar on his head and, the president explained, he “is still blind in one eye” and “still struggles on his left side.”
Regardless of political affiliation and ideological positioning, all Americans can appreciate Remsburg’s willingness to serve while questioning whether Obama is right to use a soldier as an applause line in a political speech.
Shortly after taking office in 2009, Obama increased the number of troops in Afghanistan.
In November 2009, he again added still more troops, tripling the number stationed there under Bush.
As America finally prepares to withdraw from what has become the country’s longest war, there is no reason to believe that stability, much less democracy, will last very long in Afghanistan (the same holds true in Iraq, where virtually all American troops have already been withdrawn and the country is sliding into sectarian violence).
What exactly was Remsburg – or any soldier – fighting for in Afghanistan?
The president didn’t offer any explanation in his State of the Union address and you’d search his past speeches in vain for a clear and compelling reason, too.
http://ideas.time.com/2014/01/29/the-state-of-the-unions-most-despicable-moment/#ixzz2rsVDjYXZ
