Obama does not understand soldiers

By James Corum,UK Telegraph

 Obama is a child of an anti-war era and it shows

It is now clear that President Obama has no understanding at all of soldiers or of waging war. He made that clear in his speech on Afghanistan before the Corps of Cadets at the US Military Academy at West Point. It’s partly a generational thing:he was born at the end of the baby boom and was educated at a liberal Ivy League university. For these people,going to war is the most horrible idea one can contemplate.

Obama thought his opening promise to pull American forces out of Afghanistan would be wildly popular with the cadets. After all,it would have been brought an ovation from students of his generation at Columbia and Harvard. At both universities,the prevailing ideology was a reflexive anti-Americanism. Whatever happened in the world,America was at fault and every war was Vietnam,doomed to failure. One was far more likely to find hard-line Marxists in the Columbia or Harvard milieu than an officer cadet. Obama is unlikely even to have met someone training to join the armed forces during his formative university years.

I can describe Obama’s environment quite precisely because I was a student at Brown University in that era. Brown,like Columbia and Harvard,is an Ivy League school where Leftist ideology is unquestionable dogma. In my time I was the top Army officer cadet at Brown University. In fact,I was the only Army officer cadet at Brown. Out of 6,000 students there were six of us enrolled in the Army,Marine and Navy officer programs. The attitude among most of my fellow students – and many went on to high positions in government and the media – was one of utter contempt.

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