https://freerepublic.com/tag/rinosluvobama/ en-us Thu, 3 Dec 2009 23:55:17 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399761/posts Still: By mid-2010, Obama will have more than doubled the number of American troops in Afghanistan since he became president; he will have empowered his general, Stanley McChrystal, to fight the war pretty much as he thinks necessary to in order to win; and he will have retroactively, as it were, acknowledged that he and his party were wrong about the Iraq surge in 2007 -- after all, the rationale for this surge is identical to Bush’s, and the hope is for a similar success. He will also have embraced the use of military force as a key instrument of... Washington Post https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399761/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 23:55:17 GMT