Is Obama a Leader or Micromanager?
Jules Cirttenden:
No cruel eenie-meenie-miney-moe jokes, please. I don’t want to be so cynical as to suggest that in neat increments of 5,000 to 10,000, the president’s precision decision-making process smacks of micromanagement, a desire to show he’s no sap for generals, or some effort to please everyone. Clearly they’ve put a lot of thought into whether 5,000 or 10,000 in one direction or the other stresses the Afghan population more or less, stresses the U.S. military more or less. Presumably it reflects a precision response to some precise level of Taliban and al-Qaeda activity that McChrystal,* unable to see trees from his forest perch, was unable to discern, and a more advanced level of thinking on exactly how much harder or easier it needs to be for each soldier on the ground in Afghanistan to do whatever it is they are supposed to do with every last bullet and bean the American people send over there.