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Posted on 08/12/2010 7:53:44 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
We believe that the United States has a powerful national interest in Afghanistan, in depriving Al Qaeda of a safe haven on either side of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. This country would also do enormous damage to its moral and strategic standing if it now simply abandoned the Afghan people to the Taliban’s brutalities.
But like many Americans, we are increasingly confused and anxious about the strategy in Afghanistan and wonder whether, at this late date, there is a chance of even minimal success.
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But reports from the ground have been so relentlessly grim — July’s death toll of 66 American troops was the highest since the war began — that Mr. Obama needs to do a better job right now of explaining the strategy and how he is measuring progress.
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Since then, the administration has sent a host — a cacophony — of conflicting signals about the deadline, the strategy and its commitment to the war.
Americans need regular, straight talk from President Obama about what is happening in Afghanistan, for good and ill, and the plan going forward. More ambiguity will only add to the anxiety and confusion.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Hes got that half right...
On September 12, 2001 he effectively received a blank check from Congress, the media, and the public to do whatever was necessary to decisively win the war.
He did not cash that check.
There has never been an anti-war movement of any significance in this country until we started fighting these no win, politically correct, nation building "wars".
Candidate Obama made all the noise about Afghanistan being the ‘good war’ and ‘Bush took his eye off the ball’. He committed us to a mission that Bush never supported. There have been more coalition forces killed in the 21 months since Obama was elected than in the entire 7 years Bush was in charge and we are no closer to a creating a stable ally than we were in October 2001.
“Hilary is a winner in 2012 , no ?”
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I don’t think so, her only chance would be if the Republicans nominate a woman and the wrong woman at that. American women don’t want a woman in the white house, they will only allow it if both major party candidates are women. At any rate I wouldn’t attempt to make any kind of prediction of a winner in 2012. We will be lucky if there is an election in 2012.
My prayer is that by 2012 Obama will be serving a life sentence for treason against the United States.
“There has never been an anti-war movement of any significance in this country until we started fighting these no win, politically correct, nation building ‘wars.’”
I agree that Bush didn’t cash the check, because he was a liberal RINO. Don’t get me wrong, I would take him back in a heartbeat, but he was not interested in really winning a war, anymore than Obama is today. The “wars” isn’t really the problem anyway - the pi$$ poor, no win, politically correct STRATEGY is what is killing us!
The difference between these “nation building” wars, as you call them, and WWII, is the strategy! Kill them all and let God sort them out - WINS WARS! And it SAVES lives, mostly American lives - and I am all for that!
Let the military run the campaigns to win, then just like in Japan, we can give them back parts of the control when we know they can handle it! Stop pu$$y-footing and get this done with real war, with real losses (theirs) and trust me - they will come around to our way of thinking!
You do not win wars with the LBJ “Hearts and Minds” strategy! Not against someone who has been at war with you for over 10 years before we even knew! Those people are out to destroy us - I say, “Destroy them back!”
I thought this was the war that Democrats supported. I guess they’re liars.
A moose bit my sister once..... :)
That’s because she wasn’t veiled from head to toe. She DESERVED it.
Yes, she wasn’t veiled...she was too busy eating cheese...:)
I appreciate your post but I don’t understand its relationship to my post about Obama following in Bush’s footsteps.
I disagree with you that it is the correct policy.
We are in Afghanistan with no real idea of what victory would look like, and no willingness to admit that the enemy is rooted in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
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Oh, the hugh manatee!
Everybody remain clam!
Good post.
Agreed.
Thanks!
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