Hillary Clinton calls for more troops and aid for Afghanistan.

[calteacherguy]

You know, at times this place becomes truly surreal. One of the leading Hillary supporters here today quoted a right-wing website attacking Obama for his "inexperience" in suggesting we bolster our troop presence in Afghanistan and increase aid by 1 billion. I pointed out in that thread that I would be surprised if Hillary didn't agree with Obama in principle on this, and it only took a one-minute Google search to find that I was correct.

It is truly pathetic the levels to which supporters of some candidates will go in putting their own ignorance on display. And now, to Hillary's words on Afghanistan...

It is a great and brave thing that our allies from Canada, Britain, the Netherlands and other NATO countries have done by sending troops to Afghanistan. But Afghanistan and NATO need us as a leading partner, to help with security, to root out corruption, to find alternatives to opium, to improve the situation with Pakistan. We know the general area where the leaders of the Taliban and probably the leaders of Al Qaeda are. It is a failure of our policies on all fronts that five years later they are sending waves of fighters into Afghanistan from their safe havens. The stakes are unbearably high: for Afghanistan, for Pakistan, for the country's northern neighbors in Central Asia; for the reach of Al Qaeda; and for our own credibility and leadership.

We should begin by responding to our NATO commander's call for more troops in Afghanistan, where on a per capita basis we have spent 25 times less than we spent in Bosnia, and deployed one-fiftieth as many troops.

http://clinton.senate.gov/news/statements/details.cfm?id=265807

[Forkboy]

1. Kicked and recommended in light of the hypocritical Hillary supporters whining about this today.

[Cha]

2. As long as her daughter

doesn't have to go.

[Disturbed]

3. I agree about more aid but not more troops.

Afghanistan needs to allow the Taliban to have a political party. Let the people vote for what parties they wish to represent them. Killing more people is not the solution. The Taliban is never going to killed off & as long as killing their members is the main solution the US & NATO has to their presence there will be more bloodshed. Why is more War the easiest answer to complicated problems?

[Cha]

4. Yes, more aid to help the Soldiers

who are there to get out gracefully. Just DO IT.

You know they have their collective eye on that corporate oil. Money, Money, Money.

It'd be so hysterical if hillary and the coporatemediawhores couldn't fool the majority.