Obama Doubles Down His Bet on Winning the War in Afghanistan

February 18, 2009 RSS Feed Print
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Such comments are rare, but they offer a window into breadth of opinion on how best to handle Afghanistan, even within the U.S. military.

The region is critically complex, and it seems to get more complicated by the day. After a Kremlin promise of $2.1 billion in aid, President Kurmanbek Bakiyev of Kirgizstan declared earlier this month that he would be shutting down Manas Air Base, a key U.S. logistics hub for Afghanistan. U.S. officials say that nothing is finalized. But the move signifies a disturbing reassertion of Russian power, they add, and one more problem on the new president's plate.

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al qaeda planned and executed on 9/11 an attack on U.S. soil. in response to the attack, America declared war on al qaeda and the ones harboring al qaeda (the Taliban Regime). plain and simple... Iraq is a mistake, but Afghanistan is us defending against an attacker who targets U.S. civilians.

ryanlevy of FL 6:43AM January 18, 2010

The continuation of these two wars is criminal against our kids dying there, innocent populations and our own population here who has to continue suffering an economic crisis affecting their livehoods, their education and their health. Lets stop this madness and put all those billions of dollars to work here. Lets leave a small force to train those countries armies to regain control of their countries, lets put some money in projects to help those countries rebuilt in pay for all the destruction and killings we have caused. Isn't it enough revenge for 911?

Jesus Tapia of CA 2:20PM April 21, 2009

War on terror is unwinnable by mere force.We are not fighting regular armies and well identified enemies.We are fighting individuals or small groups of individuals whom we can neither detect nor identify.Sleeping cells of such terrorists have already been deployed all over the whole world. Such type of war could go on and on for many decades without any definite outcome. However,we can win this war very easily by finding out the real cause behind such terrorist formations and trying to eliminate it. The short sighted step of creating Israel on the ruins of Plaestine and its innocent people has led to the creation of such terrorist groups who are ready to sacrifice their own bodies in a holy war against Israel and the countries that suport its apartheid regime.Once we stop our unlimited support to the Israeli military gangs whose only game is to kill as many Palestinian women and children as they can everyday,once all Palestinian refugees return home to their stolen land and belongings under un resolution 194 which Israel arrogantly refuses to implement, once a secular state is established on all the land of Historical Palestine for Jews,Moslems and Christians with equal rights and responsibilities and without any kind of descrimination, all terror in the world will defintely disappear for ever.

sam of NJ 5:33PM April 16, 2009

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