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Krauthammer: Why isn’t Obama paying closer attention to Afghanistan?
Hot Air ^ | Sept. 21, 2009 | Allahpundit

Posted on 09/21/2009 6:17:53 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

Via the Right Scoop, a rhetorical question par excellence. Has there ever been a president less interested in foreign policy than The One? Does anyone, right or left, think he wouldn’t happily take a pass on international issues for four or eight years to concentrate on remaking America’s economy in his statist image? His Afghanistan posture was always transparently a sop to centrists, to prove that he was a “hawk” on some wars even though he was famously a dove on Iraq. Now he senses some public reluctance to invest further in the “good war” and suddenly he’s “skeptical” about more troops for the counterinsurgency strategy. Same with Iran: My hunch is that he’d happily go on tango-ing with them forever if it meant buying him enough time to pass ObamaCare and cap-and-trade. The irony is, if his domestic priorities go down in flames, his only chance for reelection might be some sort of impressive victory in foreign policy, be it Iranian disarmament or an Israeli/Palestinian peace plan. I wonder how much he’s willing to give up.

Here’s a few minutes of video from the March presser on Afghanistan referenced by Krauthammer lest you doubt Obama’s recent commitment to winning this fight.

(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; bhogwot; krauthammer; mhmmdnsm09212009; nsp; nss; oef
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1 posted on 09/21/2009 6:17:53 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Because he doesn’t intend for us to win there, perhaps? He is, after all, on the ‘other’ side.


2 posted on 09/21/2009 6:20:37 PM PDT by XenaLee
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Then pull tham all out. Sending them over their without proper support and with ludicrous ROE is worse than just cutting and running. This man is a disgrace.


3 posted on 09/21/2009 6:20:44 PM PDT by Trust but Verify
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To: Free ThinkerNY

What I want to know is why he isn’t doing anything about IRAN????

Not one frickin peep out of him about this.

If they have a nuke, either they take the first shot at Israel and WW3 starts, or Israel flies over and knocks them out, and WW3 starts. Oil becomes astronomically high. Like high enough most of us aren’t driving around much anymore.


4 posted on 09/21/2009 6:20:45 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Because he doesn’t give a s**t.


5 posted on 09/21/2009 6:21:24 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Because he’s an idiot?


6 posted on 09/21/2009 6:22:00 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: RichInOC

Because he is a muzzie.

LLS


7 posted on 09/21/2009 6:24:19 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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To: XenaLee

Krauthammer and his fellow neocons are never happy unless Americans are always fighting in multiple wars in every nook and cranny on the planet.


8 posted on 09/21/2009 6:24:56 PM PDT by Captain Kirk
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To: Free ThinkerNY

History will record that Bush won the difficult war, and 0bama lost the easy one.


9 posted on 09/21/2009 6:25:17 PM PDT by counterpunch (In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Obama has yet to publish his National Security Strategy, let alone his strategy in regard to Afghanistan.


10 posted on 09/21/2009 6:25:50 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (A mob of one.)
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To: LibLieSlayer

Not mutually exclusive.


11 posted on 09/21/2009 6:27:35 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Because he is a sophomore in a graduate position?
sophomore=smart fool
12 posted on 09/21/2009 6:28:45 PM PDT by goodtomato (I'm blessed!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
The irony is, if his domestic priorities go down in flames, his only chance for reelection might be some sort of impressive victory in foreign policy, be it Iranian disarmament or an Israeli/Palestinian peace plan. I wonder how much he’s willing to give up.

Given 0bama's predilection - ask the Poles or the Czechs - for conceding an opponent everything he was asking for and then hoping that puppies rain from the sky, I'd say the prospects are pretty grim. These are people who have their own agendas and they don't involve making rock-star poseurs look good so they can get re-elected.

It isn't complicated. Iran, Russia, Hamas, Hezbollah, North Korea - these enemies were all for 0bama's accession to power so that they could actually pursue these agendas, not so that they could prolong the period in which they might pursue these agendas. They can see the tide rolling against hopenchange. They'll get what they can while they can and they're perfectly rational in doing so.

0bama isn't going to be bailed out by any of them, quite the contrary. And he's shown no sign even of appreciating their aims except as a facet of his own image. Unless the latter changes the U.S. has no hope of a cogent foreign policy in the next three years, whether the Dems retain control of Congress or not.

13 posted on 09/21/2009 6:29:52 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Free ThinkerNY

God help our military.


14 posted on 09/21/2009 6:36:50 PM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: XenaLee

Why isn’t Obama paying closer attention to Afghanistan?

Because he doesn’t care about anything other than turning this country into a dictatorship.


15 posted on 09/21/2009 6:38:14 PM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: Billthedrill

It is even simpler. 0bama is on the side of our enemies and is committing treason. The apparent confusion is just the wakes and eddies of turning the American ship in the opposite direction without the passengers noticing the switch.


16 posted on 09/21/2009 6:38:47 PM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
His plan is to sell out, and he hasn't yet figured out how to engineer this without public outrage. Another "crisis," for sure, maybe Iran, but his options are shrinking. The world's pro's outsmart chickenboy at every turn.
17 posted on 09/21/2009 6:39:16 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (truth--the liberal's kryptonite.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Kraut destroyed the boy marxist.


18 posted on 09/21/2009 6:40:04 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: RichInOC
He is a muzzie that is sympathetic to the taliban and their allies. How's that?

LLS

19 posted on 09/21/2009 6:42:44 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

....Barry is way too busy trying to sell his garbage ObamaCare to the American gullible.


20 posted on 09/21/2009 6:43:15 PM PDT by cranked
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