Bill Ayers and Obama's Afghanistan Mistake

Bill Ayers, the University of Illinois at Chicago education professor and unrepentant terrorist, founder of the Weather Underground, reared his ugly head. He was interviewed by Alan Colmes, FOX News.

Ayers, friend of Barack Obama, isn't happy about the way the new president is handling the war in Afghanistan.

In case you missed it, Obama ordered 17,000 troops to Afghanistan last week, utilizing an Iraqi "surge" strategy. Of course, the problem with that is Afghanistan isn't Iraq. Afghanistan is rural, not urban like Iraq.

The geographic difference means front-line troops in Afghanistan are widely dispersed, and often far from support.

"The only thing they can call on when they get in trouble is air strikes," [Boston University Professor Thomas Barfield, an expert on Afghan society,] said. "Air strikes are inherently an imprecise weapon."

Air strikes mean civil deaths.

The peace-loving and bomb-utilizing Ayers doesn't agree with Obama's way of waging war in Afghanistan.

From The Swamp:

Ayers had this to say about President Barack Obama committing an additional 17,000 troops to Afghanistan: "It's a mistake. It's a colossal mistake. And, you know, we've seen this happen before, Alan. We've seen a hopeful presidency, Lyndon Johnson's presidency, burn up in the furnace of war."

"I fear that this brilliant young man, this hopeful new administration, could easily burn their prospect of a great presidency in the war in Afghanistan or elsewhere."

Ayers not only thinks Obama is making a mistake, he thinks it's colossal.

I wonder if he sees Obama's mistake as colossal enough that it would prompt him to resort to violence as a way of getting Obama to stop.

Regarding Ayers' terrorist past:

And Ayers had this to say about his own days in anti-Vietnam War protests, the group he cofounded sometimes making its point with bombs:

"I don't regret anything I did it to oppose the war. It was -- I did it to oppose the war. I don't regret it. I don't look back on those things and regret them, but I'm willing to rethink them. And there are many things which I'm going to rethink."

In my opinion, the stubborn, "no regrets" Ayers has a lot of "rethinking" to do about his war against America.

At least Ayers is willing to openly criticize Obama for escalating the war in Afghanistan. Obama's supporters, the ones so against President Bush's use of the military, don't seem to care about what Obama is doing in Afghanistan.

Maybe they're too busy thinking about all the free stuff they expect to get from Obama that they're too preoccupied to care about things like war and peace.