Obama has a completely free hand in Afghanistan and Iraq. I doubt that any president since LBJ in 1964-65 has had such a free hand. The so-called Republican Obama haters will give him everything he asks for wheil the so-called antiwar worshipers on the left will do the same. The only way that Obama will be stopped is if conservatives turn against his escalation but they will continue to be his best friends on these issues.
“But Sheehan is a media has-been. ABC’s Charlie Gibson used to cover her anti-Bush rallies in Crawford, Tex. Now he says, with a sigh, of her recent anti-Obama efforts, “Enough already.””
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War is difficult, frustrating and messy.
Gibson is not covering Sheehan’s insanity because, NOW, the protracted and difficult War on Terror is on the messiah’s plate. There is no political capital to be gained in the ObamaMedia by harping on the anti-war theme any longer now that the Left is running things.
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“The Obama administration recently sent more troops into Afghanistan to reach our highest level yet at 32,000.”?????
I read an AP article that puts it at 60,000...this year Obama sent an additional 21,000, so the 30,000 number does not make sense!
MORE IMPORTANT:
Afghanistan: Obama’s new rules for engagement:
#1 “buzzing rather than bombing the enemy”
“The first thing we do is fly over head, and the bad guys know airpower is in place and oftentimes that’s enough. That ends the fight, they vamoose,” said Hostage, who will direct the air battle over Iraq and Afghanistan. “The A-10 has a very distinct sound. The cannon on an A-10 is horrifically capable and our adversaries know it. When they hear the sound of an A-10, they scatter.”
Hostage says the Air Force can easily drop bombs with pinpoint accuracy. But in some cases, it may be better to fly over enemy forces with noisy warplanes to get them to disperse first, then try more force if that doesn’t work.
http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/showthread.php?t=87881
#2 KABUL - The top U.S. general in Afghanistan will soon formally order U.S. and NATO forces to break away from fights with militants hiding in Afghan houses so the battles do not kill civilians, a U.S. official said Monday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31492098
The Obama administration recently sent more troops into Afghanistan to reach our highest level yet at 32,000.
Yet so far there have been none of the public protests that we used to see in connection with Iraq. Why?
You have the answer in your sentence.OBAMA
If that said Bush Administration, there would be widespread MSM driven protests.
If it said McCain Administration there would be widespread MSM driven protests.
It says OBAMA Administration. No way that the MSM is going to drive any protests against their handpicked President....
Five years after Japan and Germany surrendered were we still calling our troops being over there a “war”?
As far as casualties, those losers are strictly amateur hour when it comes to killing people. A young man of military age is safer stationed in Iraq or Afghanistan than living in one of our major urban areas. We kill more people per capita during peace than many nations do during upheaval or rebellion.
My theory is 0bama has stopped calling them “wars,” so when he withdraws the troops in defeat, he’ll think he’s able to say he didn’t lose a “war.”
As for Afghanistan, placing extreme restrictions on enemy engagement has heavily turned the tide in favor of the Taliban. Couple that with the fact we don’t do aggressive interrogations, along with no longer calling the conflict a “war” — well, what the hell? Sounds like incremental surrender to me.
