As the sane portion of the country looks on in disbelief at the Obama Administration’s decision to give 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed a civilian trial in New York City, the conduct of the War on Terror aborad is equally jarring—three months after General Stanley McChrystal has asked for an additioanl 40,000 troops to properly continue operations in Afghanistan, the President still has yet to make up his mind. Last night, Sean Hannity aired an eye-opening report on one of the influences behind Obama’s foreign policy: Lessons in Disaster by Gordon Goldstein.
Goldstein’s thesis is that President John F. Kennedy would have kept America out of the Vietnam War, which the nation entered because his successor, Lyndon Johnson, wanted to bolster his anti-Communist credentials. Waging the war was a mistake further compounded by the fact that LBJ gave his military commanders too much free reign to impose bad strategy. The modern implications? Drawdown from an unwinnable war.
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