Andrew McCarthy knows Obama and tells it like it is.Okay, okay, I got the unemployment rate wrong — it’s actually higher than 12 percent if you consider the real rather than the cooked numbers. More significantly, I failed to account for the possibility that our forces would find and kill bin Laden. That feat — in Pakistan, where we obviously don’t have 100,000 troops — made last night a no-brainer: Obama would declare “mission accomplished” and not worry about a somnolent American media asking how we could have surged to defeat the Taliban while simultaneously negotiating with the Taliban and calling for the Taliban’s inclusion in any Afghan political settlement. What I said 18 months ago remains true today: Obama’s plan “would be preposterous if it were actually a national-security strategy. But it’s not. It’s a political strategy.” It doesn’t need to be coherent or effective. It needs to get Obama through 2012.
Something everybody knows, but is afraid to say, or at least admit even to themselves.
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