The Heritage Foundation's Morning Bell is the best analysis I could find on last night's speech by President Obama at West Point. Here's a link:
http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/hostedemail/email.htm?h=4c23d011d252f04ba7a6474da70cdd5a&CID=5343324978&ch=4D788D1CB7D7C062A894C6F80EC72088
and here's an excerpt:
Too Few Troops: As we noted yesterday, when General McChrystal provided President Obama his assessment of the situation in Afghanistan in August, he identified three troop levels each with a corresponding level of risk that the mission could fail: 1) an additional 20,000 troops that would run a “high risk of failure“; 2) an additional 80,000 troops that would be a “low risk option” that has “best chance to contain the Taliban-led insurgency and stabilize Afghanistan“; or 3) an additional 40,000 to 45,000 troop “medium risk option.” President Obama’s 30,000 troop increase falls squarely between the “high” and “medium” risk options. Nowhere in his address did Obama explain how a medium or high risk of failure in Afghanistan could possibly be acceptable to the American people.
and another one:
Hopefully the President’s incoherent address to a muted West Point audience will not reverse America’s growing support for victory.
