In case you missed it Obama’s backers have declared the war on terror, if not over, has taken hind tit in their hope and change program for America.

Papa Ray
Central Texas

It’s win-win. If a miracle happens and it turns out ok, he can claim credit. If things look hopeless, he’ll have good reason to pull the US out.

This Thanksgiving Day Hussein Obama will announce “Our boys will be home by Christmas” and he will bring home our troops in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, West Germany, and Korea.

“Gentlemen, if we fail — and are killed — I certainly hope the World does go to war!” — Marine Captain in The Wind and the Lion

Spoken like a true jarhead.

Regards,

Chuck(le)
[You haven't lived, until you've almost died.]

Here’s the thing. There are other countries in the vicinity. If you ignited a nuclear attack, they’d certainly take offense to the idea of having to live under a cloud of nuclear fallout. Yes, you could probably turn the region into a wasteland. But say goodbye to DC, NYC and LAX you dumbass.

The Taliban and AQ are like cockroaches, the initial invasion was like turing the lights on. They all scattered and ran back into the walls (aka Pakistan). We’re trying to root out the infestation. — Real Deal

….I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that Iran is another place where they ran to for help.

Regards,

Chuck(le)
[Bomb, Bomb, Bomb;
Bomb, Bomb Iran.]

Two reasons:

1) The Taliban and AQ are like cockroaches, the initial invasion was like turing the lights on. They all scattered and ran back into the walls (aka Pakistan). We’re trying to root out the infestation.

2) Americans like the ideal of lifting up others, we could have gone there and smashed everything and left but we’re not like that. It would have been far easier to turn the entire region to a radio active wasteland of fused glass, but that’s not in line with the “American Way” as a whole.

It’s all between you and him. He wants/needs to control you. That’s as far as it goes. He’s not interested in policy, in America, in Americans. It’s just Him..and His control of you.

That’s all there is to him. Just the wink, the grin, the assertion that he ‘loves’ the adulating audience, the call for a ‘shout out’…and professorial admonitions that, ‘let me be clear’..about what apocalytpic futures we face if we don’t do as he tell us.

As President, this need for adulation and for control, has increased, and he is getting more and more stressed out at being in positions of making decisions – because decisions aren’t that all-important interaction between Him and you…and they might cause criticism of Him. Obama can’t abide criticism.

I agree that Obama doesn’t have the ability to even read a serious book; and that includes reading and understanding policies. Economic, health, military..any policy. He’s clueless; he can’t think through a scenario, analyze its causes, its results. So, how does he come to decisions??

If the situation doesn’t involve him personally, which is to say, if it doesn’t mean a personal performance, where he can preach at you, assert his control over you, assure himself of your unstinting adoration…then, his mind is totally empty.

He has no reference ground on which to make a decision. No knowledge of history. No understanding of economic principles. No ability to analyze cause and effect. Nothing.

So, he does what his BackRoom Gang tells him. They are the ones who wrote the porkstimulus; the cap and trade; the health care. They are the socialist gang. Obama’s only interest is in the power to control the audience..and make them ‘His To Control’. That’s it.

With regard to Afghanistan, I suspect Obama is being told by his utopian BackRoom Gang to get out. He’s been trying to ‘test the public mood’ on this for several week, with lots and lots of ‘leaks’ (heh) about corruption in the Afghan govt (so what else is new); about the need for ‘change in Afghan rule’..and so on.

Then what are we still doing there all these years later? The Afghan opeates in Kabul, nowhere else. Its the Taliban that rule that country. Only the ignorant bung-wipes that frequent this column would be unaware of that.

LOL. And what would be wrong with that, Hillbily Bob? You can’t help but make fools of yourselves.

But Bush did have a non-dawdling plan, unlike the present CinC: (1) Win big in Iraq first. (2) Depose the Taliban in Afghanistan and keep up pressure on their remnants until the mop up in Iraq is complete.

The second now needs bolstering using more troops says the Commanding General. Obama says, “What to do…what to do…uumm what to do.”

You can’t leave something a clusterf**k of a mess that was already one and pretty much has been for centuries. SNAFU is a term that accurately describes the political state of Afghanistan for a very long time. There has never existed a nation of “Afghanistan” except as lines drawn on a map, there is not much of a sense of nationalism in the people who live within those imaginary boundaries.

They are a bunch of tribes, several of which cross into Pakistan, and it is with their tribe that their loyalties lie. The tribes are what we need to address and work with if we are to be successful and even come close to building a nation.