Our vital national interest

I’m pretty sure Michael Moore and I are not of the same species - I just don’t see how it’s possible.  Here are some of Moore’s profound words of wisdom for President Obama, written prior to his speech last night announcing a large increase of United States troops to Afghanistan:

Don’t be deceived into thinking that sending a few more troops into Afghanistan will make a difference, or earn you the respect of the haters.

Yeah, so, incredibly, Michael Moore seems to believe that President Obama would send 30,000 American citizens into harm’s way in order to curry favor with political enemies.  Wow - how did he support and vote for Obama in good conscience believing him capable of such calloused and horrible abuse of power?  Here’s another pearl of awesomeness from Mr. Moore:

What would Martin Luther King, Jr. do? What would your grandmother do? Not send more poor people to kill other poor people who pose no threat to them, that’s what they’d do. Not spend billions and trillions to wage war while American children are sleeping on the streets and standing in bread lines.

Who in their right mind could possibly believe that leaving Afghanistan to the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden is a course of action that benefits our country or the world?  Who can, in their right mind, ignore the mortal threat that lingers in Afghanistan and Pakistan after what happened on 9/11? 

President Obama informed us last night that sending those additional troops is in our vital national interest.  I believe that Obama is a man who does not take the use of force lightly, and thus I see reflected in his words an awareness of a significant threat to our country’s security emanating from Afghanistan, a threat even greater than I, in my vast imagination, could conjure. 

If Michael Moore and his ilk weren’t so blindly allegiant to a course of action for our country that avoids armed conflict at any cost and denies what is so obvious - that there are those in the world who would do us great harm given the chance - they too might appreciate the grave danger that exists in Afghanistan: it was, after all, the very Obama that they worked so hard to elect who was telling us last night, both in what he said and what was implied, that in increasing our troop presence in Afghanistan, he was taking the only rational course of action.

Our vital national interest, indeed.