While politics are being played out in there usual way in Washington DC, a campaign promise President Obama said he would change; soldiers are dying in Afghanistan because our Commander In Chief is in the midst of a political quagmire on more fronts than one within his own party and fails to make a decision.

Some 800 Americans have died in Afghanistan in eight years. This is the war that Obama said is the right war to fight rather than the one in Iraq.

The hand-picked Obama General, Stanley McChrystal made an open appeal for increased military presence in Afghanistan and rebuked an alternative plan by Vice President Biden which consisted of one that called for troop withdrawal and airstrikes against AlQaeda targets.

A gutsy move reminiscent of famous past generals who stood up for what was right.

However,  top Democrats on Capitol Hill are suggesting that President Obama’s top commander in Afghanistan stepped “outside the chain of command” when he made a public plea last week for more troops.

General McChrystal is following the strategy outlined for him by his Commander In Chief, has made an assessment and a request for more troops to do the job he was assigned to do.

Who knows better, the general on the ground where the rubber meets the road, or the man in the White House surrounded by the democratic puppets of his administration?

McChrystal has asked for 40,000 more troops in Afghanistan. The decision, without question, is simple.  You either give him what he has asked for or you pull out.  Anything else is political appeasement and will cost American lives and prolong a war that will not be winnable.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told the media that ‘pulling out of Afghanistan was not an option.’

If it’s not an option, what is the decision Mr. President?

Since you have been in office I have often felt you would make a better door than a window, for your transparency is all so foggy.