To the nation from West Point

After three months of waiting for his decision on Afghanistan- or what the British Defense Secretary called “a period of hiatus in Washington and a lack of clear direction” - President Obama will travel to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point Tuesday to deliver a prime-time address to the nation. With a backdrop of cadets from the elite military academy, the White House might be hoping Americans get distracted by the pomp and ceremony and more willing to accept what their presidents tells them, something not so effective perhaps were it to have been communicated from his desk on the oval office. . . But it is not going to be easy that in a time of high unemployment and the suffering it is bringing to millions of his countrymen, the president’s communication of sending more troops to battle in Afghanistan, for that is what is expected of his address, will be taken gladly.
No one thinks the decision must not have been difficult, but everybody thinks it goes with the job, Obama being the Commander-in-Chief. Also if he announces a deployment of about 30,000 additional troops, he must have been aware than from then on, Afghanistan will be his war, not one that he just inherited. The consequences of the decision could not be blamed anymore on the previous administration.