Is the “Obama” exit strategy wise?

OK, this keeps running through my mind every time Senator Obama talks about pulling troops out of Iraq.

I can just see our troops told they have to relocate to Afghanistan because that is where the real enemy is located. They line up, just as players do at the end of a football game, and shake hands with the Al Qaeda. The Al Qaeda tells them “Good game, I really thought you had it won … too bad” and “Hey, next time we meet you will get home field advantage”. This as the Al Qaeda begins their “pilgrimage” from all over the Middle East to Iraq. Before boarding the planes to leave country we shake hands with the Iranian insurgents who just look at us and say “We really love that new coach of yours, best player on our team” and “Looks like you shouldn’t have been here in the first place”. They begin to laugh hysterically.

Now, we begin to greatly increase our numbers into Afghanistan. To picture this, the way I do, draw a line in the ground. On the left is Afghanistan and on the right is Pakistan. Take a bucket full of plastic toy soldiers and dump them on the ground in a pile. Be careful NOT to let them cross the line on the Pakistan side. This is the U.S. Military, now put a table and two plastic figures playing cards, most likely “fish” on the Pakistan side. There is no reason to add any more troops to those figures because they are on a constant “pilgrimage” to Iraq (just as they were during the initial battles in Afghanistan). There are also more moving into sectors not controlled by the U.S military in Afghanistan. We of course can only go there when the allied country with that area of responsibility leaves. Then is the only time we can engage the Taliban or Al Qaeda in those sectors. As for the massive new number of American troops in the North the rules of engagement are clear “We will wait here until we have captured Osama bin Laden, this is what we should have been doing in the first place”. As we gather strength in unnecessary numbers we sit and wait while Ayman al-Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden continue to play cards amused at the incredible U.S. Military with so many troops the only casualties are that of fratricide.

Quite frankly we have not seen this kind of Military strategy since President Johnson or Saddam Hussein.