Oh that’s going to go over big with his leftist base!
Aren’t they wild about him b/c he has promised to end the war in Iraq and bring the troops home?
How is deploying them right back to Afghanistan “bringing them home”?
“How is deploying them right back to Afghanistan “bringing them home”?”
Perhaps he is hoping the quagmire called Afghanistan will catch the U.S. in the same trap the Soviets found themselves in. Many experts believe Afghanistan helped lead to the demise of the Soviet Union. Does he want the same for the U.S.?
Exactly.
Let's see how the media tries to gloss over that one.
Precisely. “Bring them home, AFTER Afghanistan!” is not a catchy slogan for those who nominated him to end the war - the war he strongly opposed.
Obama seems to be quite the outspoken, impressionable young man. He’s ready to speak up on anything, and if he’s wrong, he speaks right up on that. ‘Speak first, we can always rethink it later.’
One brief glimpse of Afghanistan and he strongly announces a reversal of his foreign policy for the next decade.