An Open Letter to Barack Obama

I’d like to remind you that no one forced you to take on these responsibilities. Perhaps you should have been more forthcoming about your true beliefs. You spent two years convincing Americans you were the one most eager and most qualified to win in Afghanistan and that you were committed. You also said McChrystal was the right man and you had conducted a full review and had a strategy. Yet, you’re now in the midst of still another policy review, while men continue to die. If you can’t bring yourself to make the tough decision that your country and, most importantly, your military is waiting for, then the Constitution and military order and discipline demand that you immediately step aside and allow your generals to assume command of the war without your meddling.