Obama's Dithering Dims Americans' View on Afghanistan and the War on Terror
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History remakes itself again
Alexander the Great tried, Ghenghis Khan tried, the British tried,
the Russians tried, what makes the US any better at the crossroads
of empires ??? IEDS, poor terrain for Humvees, tricky updrafts for helicopters,
a persistent cash crop opium and hundreds of tribes which have allegiance
to their local trival chieftains, do they really care about the Bill of Rights
o Constitution ????
Typical Michael of CA....
Typical senseless liberal fool as Mr. Bill has invited you to list all those specifics that Bush did wrong?
Hey big man we're all ears waiting for your incompetence!
Morons are all in CA!!
Humm
Michael of CA
What don't you mention specific bad things Bush did wrong. I'd love to hear them...
Might even respond
Better kool-aid then bile
"Put down your liberal Kool-aid"
Don't you tea-baggers think it's time to retire this phrase? If anything it applies to you idiots who cheered 8 years of Bush incompetence and now see fit to whine and complain constantly.
When things get rough, run obama run...
Barry W. Shook of IN
I can see obama agreeing with you and doing just that. What a great reviw obama would get from the world. Right ???
Bad man Bush demanded more troups in Iraq and won. Going against the wishes of obama.
Yes, obama's instinct are good ???
Vietnam...; I mean Afghanistan!
We have reached the point in Afghanistan that the very people we went in to defend now consider us "outsiders". Now is the time to get out. Without our interference, those against the Taliban will use their resources, and THEY will defeat the Taliban. We are the enemy on both sides, now. Time to get out!
Incompetent Ditherer
Obama lied about Afghanistan in his campaign to snooker voters. Now that the donkey has been elected, his true anti-war, anti-American principles are showing in his policies and deeds. All he is is words that he can teleprompt anyway he wants.
Ballot box in 2010 and 2012 will teach him and his cronies a lesson in American values. Goodbye Bill Ayres and Jeremiah Wright and all of your deep hatred for America.
Baitullah Mehsud is Dead
FYI - B. Mehsud was killed by a U.S. rocket attack on August. 7. Paybacks are a be-ach.. THere's no point in Obama's dithering unless it's to develop political cover for some half-measure. McChrystal is his guy. If he's not to trust in the judgement of the general he appointed, then who's Obama listening to? Carl Levin? Rahm Emmanuel? Yeah, well those dudes studied lots of wars, I'm sure, on the pages of the New York Times. This delay on Obama's part is a sick joke. What's Obama going to learn that he hasn't been briefed on already? That Karzai bit was a stall, and now the stall has evaporated. What a limelight seeking, political, dithering mess the stressed troops in the field have inherited in this president!
Lisa of SD , Brandon of WA, Fred of CA . . .
Put down your liberal Kool-aid and take a drink from reality. The reality is we were committed to the end result when we put boots on the ground. I, like you, and not content with the current admistrations "status quo". But we follow through with the committment. We put trust and confidence in our military to prosecute the war. We give them every, single tool they want and need to put it to a quick finish. The longer we, "Dither" the more money is spent, the more impatient Americans become, the more US soldiers die, the more that country suffers.
The problem with you liberal types is none of you have had to make a "sacrifice." You don't have "skin in the game." Until you do, stay sitting in your arm chairs on the perifery.
By the way, Freddy of CA, Keith Olbermann called and wants his dusty Jane Fonda quotes back. "...let alone the soldiers killed who were defending their nation from what they rightly saw the US as - a foreign terrorist invader." Where do they come up with this drivel?!
This is no Viet Nam (despite how adamantly you libs assert that it is). There is no threat of communist expansion, no jungles, no NVA and Viet Cong dressed in pajama uniforms, no Ho Chi Minh.
What we have are terrorist dressed as civilians. Cowards that live in caves, terrorize their neighbors, set IED's and slink away. We are dealing with an enemy steeped in religious zealotry. We are dealing with a hodge-podge mixture of foreign fighters from Syria, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, etc. We have the provincial government elected by the people that support our efforts. We have coalition countries on our side.
And yes, it's been eight years, and it could very well be another 8 years considering Obama's rate of prosecuting the war and the fact that we are not going to have a nice formal conclusion to the conflict where generals meet and discuss surrender and armistice in Kabul over coffee.
It's going to be Muslim fanatics that will continue to harass and disrupt life until they learn that the world does not tolerate militant zealotry and/or they decide that Allah has run out of virgins.
But to ignore, stick our head in the sand, pretend it will go away, tuck our tail and run...well, we tried that liberal approach already. Remember former President Clinton response when they bombed the WTC the first time, bombed the Khobar Towers, Bombed Embassies, Attacked the USS Cole, and committed the 9/11 atrocity. One word describes his response in case you don't remember: Nothing! That form of parenting doesn't work with kids and it certainly doesn't work for terrorists.
So, Lisa, what Bush did was something Clinton should have done in 1992 and I gave compelling reasons why it's going to take longer than a conventional war.
Brandon, it's not Obama cleaning Bush's mess. It is Bush and Obama cleaning the mess Clinton made for failing to retaliate.
Lisa, my dear, THAT is the inconvenient truth.
