As told by the inimitable Ann Coulter.

Obama hangs himself on his words like nobody I've encountered in a long time. And it's not like the Joe Biden disease where you just say really stupid things and everybody laughs either. The problem Obama has is that he never learned the lesson, like so many other lessons, that you can't please all of the people all of the time.

So his oft-repeated "War of Necessity" line is coming home to roost. What to do...what to do. The calculations going into that "what", in Ann's words, are a "calculus of political correctness, not national security". And therein lies the problem.

Of course, at the end of the day it's not really a problem for anyone but our soldiers on the ground and Conservatives who enjoy the truth just a smidgen more than your average run-of-the-mill liberal. The flag girls in the legacy media will change the narrative for him and dismiss his change of heart as the brilliant mental gymnastics of a Harvard graduate. Liberals will just follow along.

The more serious problem is that Obama will effectively abandon the troops we have in country now and sacrifice them on the altar of political correctness, because that's what you do when you have no conviction. Everything, including the lives of men and women standing ready to defend Freedom, is negotiable for a bump in the polls. 

He has nobody to blame for having to make this choice but himself:

The difficult choice Obama faces in Afghanistan is entirely of his own making, not his generals' and certainly not Bush's. It was Obama's meaningless blather about Afghanistan being a "war of necessity" during the campaign that has moved the central front in the war on terrorism from Iraq -- a good battleground for the U.S. -- to Afghanistan -- a lousy battlefront for the U.S.

I admit that I have to occasionally rethink my position on Afghanistan because it really does seem to be the world's most difficult battlefield. But I have the luxury of not being the Commander-in-Chief. If it was a War of Necessity in August, 2008, why isn't it such a war today? Obama hasn't answered that question; hell I don't know if he's even been asked that question. But regardless of whether it's been put to him that way, the rest of us hear what he says and then watch what he does. They very rarely line up.

Like everything else with this administration, we'll just have to wait and see what happens because Lord knows taking Obama at his word is a fools gamble. The 34,000 support troops approved and presumably on their way over is at least one sign that Obama may actually try to win this thing. Ultimately I have to rely, like everybody else, on what the commanders on the ground think is necessary to accomplish their goals. Gens. McChrystal and Petraeus have been more or less unequivocal in their request for more boots. 

We'll know soon enough whether Obama believes Afghanistan is still a War of Necessity.

Russ