Teresita

I would agree that obama’s trip to the middle east is turning into a smashing success. according to andrea mitchael and others its tightly choreographed. Not a knock on obama. Great presidents and small try to choreograph their overseas visits.

I don’t think there’s any big difference between obama & mccain that more troops need to be sent to afghanistan.

imho it would be more effective however, to have more & more preditors & the like on the afghan/paki border so as to make the taliban & aq sick with fear every time they approach the border. The cost of these kinds of intel/munitions is much less than 16,000 men and their stuff.

what we saw in the last big engagement on the afghan/paki border was that the american men were brave but it was air power that was decisive.

the odd thing is that this air power projection is the dream fulfilled of mr wrong way peach fuzz robert mcnamera, bombadier for curtis lemay in WWII & sec def for kennedy/johnson during the vietnam war.

like many I was for the afghan war but not so keen on the iraq war…however once in I thought it best to pursue it to victory.

If Yon says the war is won then what the hey. the iraq war is won.

Obama is busy getting the credit for victory in Iraq with the help of his press secretaries at the anchor desks of abc,cbs and nbc.

doesn’t sound like anyone in your office watches fox.