A Nuanced Take On Obama's Captain

Bob Krumm writes Obama's claims are wrong in detail but right in overall thrust -- but he's still wrong,.

The personnel problems were caused by an antiquated individual replacement system which Bush and Rumsfeld fixed over the objections of the senior military chiefs, and supply problems in Afghanistan are not caused by Iraq so much as they're caused b "trying to resupply an operation at the end of an 8,000 mile supply chain the last 1,000 miles of which is by tactical air and then by ground through the most austere and remote environment on the planet."

The left wishes to reduce Obama's statement to the uncontroversial assertion that supply in theater is difficult. But that's not what he said. He claimed that US soldiers were actually forced to capture enemy weaponry for lack of their own, and that soldiers were plucked out of his unit for deployment in Iraq. The first isn't true by the Captain's own admission and the latter seems extremely doubtful.

posted by Ace at 01:01 PM

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