Sec. Gates With Some Good Advice: Don’t Do To Obama On Afghanistan What Dems Did To Bush On Iraq

I couldn’t agree more:

Defense Secretary Robert Gates met with a seven-member bipartisan delegation of House members this morning as part of his new strategy of lining up support behind President Obama’s Afghanistan strategy — whatever that turns out to be.

“He said that when we do make a decision, Republicans have an obligation not to make Afghanistan “Obama’s war,” said Pete King (R-N.Y.), one of five GOP members to vote for a recent defense appropriations bill the party opposed over IMF funding.

Your stance on war policy (or any policy for that matter, really) shouldn’t be determined by who is in the White House at the time and/or who is in charge of Congress.  That sort of political gamesmanship is disrespectful to the service of our troops and their sacrifice for the mission these very same political leaders sent them on.

Want to support the war?  Want to oppose the war?  Fine, but base that determination on the policy.  Not which party or political leader the issue might be most damaging or helpful to.