While Obama campaigns for Corzine: Afghanistan gets worse.

Many people are starting to question whether Barack Obama is delaying his decision on his Afghanistan strategy until after next weeks elections in New Jersey and Virginia. Whether or not you believe it is true, the lack of a decision is severely impacting the effort in Afghanistan as 8 more die today (from AP):

The deaths bring to 55 the total number of American troops killed in October in Afghanistan. The previous high occurred in August, when 51 U.S. soldiers died and the troubled nation held the first round of its presidential elections amid a wave of Taliban insurgent attacks.

President Obama is due in New Jersey on Saturday to campaign for Corzine having been here just last week. I would suggest that the President would be better served if he sat down and stayed in the Oval office and made a decision on this topic rather than run around campaigning. One of his advisers needs to tell him the role of the executive requires him to actually make decisions. Senators debate and discuss. Presidents decide.

If we no longer are committed to the mission, so be it. Remove the soldiers now. If not, so be it. Announce your strategy and start executing it now. The vacuum is helping no one. I am starting to worry that Hillary's famous campaign advertisement about the phone call in the middle of the night was off the mark. It wasn't a question of who was going to answer the phone. It was whether the President would answer it at all.

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