Posted by
Bull 67 on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 12:51:47 AM
At a news conference with NATO leaders President Obama said "This is not an American battle. This is a NATO mission as well." I hope the President was trying to say this is an international effort, but his words were horribly chosen. Horribly.
This is not an American battle? 3000 Americans died on 9/11. America was attacked on her own soil by enemies based and supported from Afghanistan. Americans were killed in New York, Pennsylvania, and WashingtonD.C.
American's are grateful to our NATO allies, who make up about 1/2 of the manpower in Afghanistan and have sustained over 500 dead on the battlefield. GOD BLESS YOU. Your great sacrifices are deeply appreciated and needed. As an American what I'm saying is this: If not one NATO country joined us we would still be there fighting.
Conflicts are defined by the people who actually fight them (not by the politicians or historians) not by who they fight with, but why they fight. In World War II, the Brits thought of the war as a British battle, the Poles thought it was a Polish battle, and the Russians thought if it as a Russian battle, and so on, even as they fought side-by-side with allies. The fact they fought a common foe with allies didn't change the nature of why they fought, for soil and blood. We fight for American soil and American blood. I'm sorry, Mr. President, but it is an American battle and will remain that way long after our NATO allies pack up and go home.
This would be obvious to most common Americans. Why isn’t it obvious to the commander-in-chief?
American Blood Spilt on American Soil