As we await the result of the meeting between President Barack Obama and General Stanley McChrystal over the latter's comments about the former in a recent magazine article, the phrase "someone had to say it" comes to mind as it has many times in the past week. With virtually every issue facing the nation, the president's leadership and decision making abilities have been coming up short and, like the child who stated the obvious in the classic fable, someone had to say that the Emperor has no clothes.

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His political allies and Chicago operatives have made excuses for President Obama's indecisiveness regarding sending more US troops to Afghanistan. But his Secretary of Defense, the member of this administration who actually knows what he’s talking about, is speaking out against delaying this important command decision.

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Several years ago the Democratic party was united in demanding that then-president George W. Bush provide an exit strategy for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But now that they control the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives they can't even agree on a strategy to fight the war, let alone end it.

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