Obama Afghanistan non policy - Stephan Mace remembered

Stephan Mace was buried at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday.

He died October 3 in a terrorist ambush on a remote outpost in Afghanistan which killed 8 US troops - just 5 days after I posted While troops die, Obama parties hearty, ignores Afghanistan.

Questions remain as to whether the lives of Stephan and his fellow soldiers would have been saved had Obama responded to General McCrystal's request for additional troops. When he was home on leave a few weeks before he died, Stephan told his family they were undermanned at the Kamdesh outpost in a region where a similar 2008 attack had taken the lives of 9 soldiers. Larry Mace, Stephan's father, has said that the soldiers were "sitting ducks."

It is clear that their deaths could have been prevented had Obama not been busy partying weekly at the White House, jetting to Copenhagen to plead for the Olympics, fundraising for his party (22 trips in 9 months, compared to Bush's 8 in his first year), cozying up to special interest groups like the HRC, and photos ops with DC school children.

Six days after the attack, our forces withdrew from Kamdesh. What message did that send the enemy?

It is clear that Obama is postponing making a decision to protect our men and women in uniform with the numbers they need because he wants to placate the radical left, whose support he needs to get his precious health care bill rammed down our throats passed.

Now he is posturing about election results and questions about the future leadership in Afghanistan. Posturing and postponing. And allowing lives to be lost for his political advantage.

Shame on you, Mr, President!!!!

Fallen Soldier Laid to Rest At Arlington Cemetery

In a place for heroes, memories are dear
Woman recalls visiting Arlington with her grandson

On a sunny day a few years ago, Stephan L. Mace, just starting high school, spent more than three hours at Arlington National Cemetery admiring the tombs and stopping at several fallen soldiers' graves.

"He was intent the whole time he was there," his grandmother, Kay Petro, remembered. Mace had asked her and his grandfather to take him on the trip. "He was so impressed. He took his time -- didn't rush. He read and looked and watched."

Monday, family and friends gathered at the cemetery to say goodbye to Mace, the 21-year-old Army specialist. He was among eight soldiers killed Oct. 3 in Kamdesh, Afghanistan, during a Taliban attack.

Read more at the Washington Post.