The Deaths in Afghanistan Go On: Pointless Edition

After months of dithering, Prez. Barry decided a while ago that all the options he’d been presented with just weren’t good enough. Apparently, no one had come up with a way to win the war without increasing US commitment and making the president look bad with his leftard supporters or to end the war without making him look bad with everyone else. Ergo, no decision.

Since Barry’s conception (to the extent that he has one) is that he’s the non-Bush (which got him a Nobel Peace Prize, after all), it would seem that he’s decided that since Bush famously called himself the “decider,” Barry would be the “non-decider.” Or is that “undecided”? Barry could conceivably choose between these options, but since that would itself constitute a decision, he’ll leave the matter “open” (dare we say “undecided”?).

Sometimes, however, no decision is actually a decision, in this case a decision to continue to get US troops killed in a pointless action that the president neither supports nor can bring himself to end. And if that’s not the very definition of dying in vain, what is?

Mary Hargrove and her daughter Kelli Hessenauer hold the flag that draped her son's casket, Lance Cpl. Justin Hargrove during his funeral in Westminster, Calif. Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009. Hargrove of Anaheim, died last week in southern Afghanistan. Several hundred attended the funeral in Westminster.

Keyser hopes that Mary and Kelli like the piece of cloth they got in return for the lance corporal’s life, as that’s the only parting gift that they’re likely to receive.

[Hold the Presses! Special New Update: Seems the Prez may finally shit or get off the pot: "President Obama may make up his mind about sending more troops to Afghanistan as early as tonight, press secretary Robert Gibbs said today." Well, if that don't call for a frisson of anticipation, Keyser doesn't know what does. But don't get too excited: "Even if Obama does make up his mind tonight, the White House is not likely to roll out his decision until early next week."

We mustn't be too hasty or someone might think Barry's, well, Bush like. Think they could take his gold disk back in Oslo?]