Rachel Maddow on Obama's Afghanifuckup

[ProfessorPlum]

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Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3MNbrhGO9s&feature=channel

with Dan Rather

[democracy1st]

1. K & R

[janedum]

2. "Stan and Deliver" .. ? Who is "Stan"?

oh! got it .. play on words ..
afghanistan ...
ugh!
not real funny.

[RBInMaine]

3. Virtually ALL prez candidates said they would finish Afghanistan. Get real.

[psychopomp]

4. Ms. Maddow thinks she knows more than the Prez

She doesn't. I support Pres. O's handling of the Afghan mess thus far and look forward to him drawing down troops in 2011.

[ProfessorPlum]

5. don't hold your breath.

[izquierdista]

6. Get ready for Obama the dumbass

McGeorge Bundy, Robert McNamara, they were some Harvard geniuses too, and Obama is traveling in their footsteps.

[IrateCitizen]

8. There will be no drawdown in 2011

Thinking that all problems will be solved in 18 months and we'll then just pack up and leave demonstrates a significant ignorance regarding the history of Afghanistan. Do you really think that we're going to succeed where everyone else has failed going back to Alexander the Great?

[Douglas Carpenter]

9. well, I would hope you are right - but I sincerely don't think so

that last thing in the world I would want is for the Obama Administration to stumble into a catastrophic blunder.

I still hold the President in high regard and feel that in many ways he remains the best hope this world has for defusing some of the most insolvable tensions.

Unfortunately, as Mr. Rather points out the on-the-ground realities of what Afghanistan is really like make success appear to me to be highly, highly improbable.

[mmonk]

7. Excellent analysis by Rather.

That is what I have learned by reading first hand accounts and he has been there. Recommended.