Apparently everyone has decided to pile on Obama. Yesterday it was right-wing bloggers complaining that his comments on using special forces in Pakistan to capture or kill bin Laden were "reckless." Today it's Mitt "I'd double Gitmo" Romney on the attack:
Instead of issuing threats, the U.S. should work with nations to root out extremist forces which may exist, Romney said."We want as a civilized world to participate with other nations in this civilized effort to help those nations reject the extreme within them," Romney said. "That doesn't mean that our troops are going to go all over the world."
Romney said the remarks were not helpful to the American effort.
"I think his comments were ill-timed and ill-considered," Romney said.
Romney thinks Bush's invasion of Iraq, a nation that had neither connections to the 9/aa attacks nor the men who planned them, was just fine. But sending special forces into Pakistan to kill the man who heads al Qaeda? That's ill-considered and uncivilized. Unlike Gitmo, I suppose.
Look, this whole debate really is stupid. Aside from Dennis Kucinich, Mike Gravel, and Ron Paul, there isn't a single candidate running for president who wouldn't strike at bin Laden anywhere in the world if they honestly believed he could be killed. Not one. The problem they have with Obama isn't what he said. It's that he said it. They'd all prefer this policy remain undiscussed and unexamined.
Maybe I'm crazy, but I always thought he point of a political campaign was to discuss the important issues of the day. I guess I must have missed a memo somewhere.
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