Obama’s monumental blunder: 25% less troops to Afghanistan than military request! Or, second-guessing the military, Afghanistan is entirely Obama’s to win, or lose!

General Stanley McChrystal is President Obama’s choice to lead United States, and allies in Afghanistan; not complying with the General recommendation on required troop level to complete the mission was a major lapse in good judgement by President Obama.

In the unlikely event that as soon as new troops start to arrive in Afghanistan, events in the field will start to go the way planned by the United States, President Obama, and General McChrystal will become instant heroes. But, as can be expected, glitches occur, President Obama will immediately be the villan since he did not listen to his military experts and reduced the number of troops required in that theater by 25%.

Cutting the number of troops requested by the military by a man with no military knowledge, and add a deadline, be it only a tentative one, the President of the United States assumed the responsibility for any failures that may be forthcoming in Afghanistan.

Should events on the ground in Afghanistan do not go as the Allied command projected, the cut-back of 25% in the number of troops the military required would surely become the assigned cause for any failure, and President Obama who determined the final level of troop commitment would become an instant failure as Commander-in-Chief.

President Obama in his naivety gave the military an escape valve should they not be able to succeed on the ground. Obama simply set himself up to be scapegoat, and political casualty, if the United States does not prevail in Afghanistan.