Not On My Watch

In South Korea yesterday the President, resplendent in his de rigueur Biggles flight jacket, said the following concerning troop withdrawal: "I'm going to make you this commitment: This is not going to happen on my watch." Is this meant to be comforting? 9/11 happened on his watch over two thousand young Americans have died to rid Saddam of WMD that weren't there on his watch American's have tortured, and the right to torture is being fought for on his watch Iraq, in a grotesque self-fulfilling prophecy, has become a terrorist threat on his watch OBL , the man who murdered thousands of innocent American civilians, is still at large on his watch Truth be told, his watch has been a calamity for the nation. He'd do well to can the John Wayne rhetoric - it only reminds the public of his disastrous tenure thus far in the Oval Office.