Afghanistan: The Betrayal

[Postman]

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/03-11

If we had wanted Bush's wars, and contractors, and corruption, we could have voted for John McCain. At least we would have seen our foe facing us, not felt him at our back, as now we do. The Republicans are given a great boon by this new war. They can use its cost to say that domestic needs are too expensive to be met-health care, education, infrastructure. They can say that military recruitments from the poor make job creation unnecessary. They can call it Obama's war when it is really theirs. They can attack it and support it at the same time, with equal advantage.

I cannot vote for any Republican. But Obama will not get another penny from me, or another word of praise, after this betrayal. And in all this I know that my disappointment does not matter. What really matters are the lives of the young men and women he is sending off to senseless deaths

[C_Lawyer09]

1. Most of the young men and women you speak of

Don't see their contribution to Afghanistan as you do. Secondly, he put forth an extremely sensible and well thought out plan for execution and withdrawal.

[Postman]

2. Try reading the article before posting an opinion....

Those are not my words, they're Gary Wills -

[C_Lawyer09]

5. Right, nuance

If Gary Will were on the board I'd say the same to him. I took your words as endorsement of the article, am I wrong?

[Duende azul]

8. Where did you see the withdrawal plan?

[FarLeftFist]

3. I would rather him handling this war...

Then Bush handling 2. Plus I think Obama made it pretty clear he would invade Afghanistan, so I don't see the betrayal factor.

[FrenchieCat]

4. The only betrayal is the fact that some have Q-tips that didn't work well

for fucking 2 years....

and they didn't hear about the exit strategy either.

Sue Q-Tip. I would.

[Postman]

6. 2 years ago there were more than 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan...

Obama looks like Bush with this decision in the sense of how Steven Colbert described George W. Bush's "resolve" at that correspondents dinner back in '06...

"He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday, no matter what happened Tuesday. Events can change; this man's beliefs never will."

[maglatinavi]

7. Betrayal

My heat bleed for all our troops ... how ever, it is not Obama's fault that "the shrub and his cabal" abandoned the war in Afghanistan, abandoned our troops and allowed Bin Laden to escape... the point is that we have to prevent alquada, bin laden and the taliban get their hands on Pakistan and its nuclear power ... it is all "the shrubs" fault, his mission was to erradicate the alquada, the taliban, but most of all, "smoke out" as he said Bin Laden. But it is a known "secret" that the Bushies are friends of the Bin Laden fa. That is why after 9/11 when no one could travel, the Bin Laden family was allowed to leave the US.
:kick: :kick: :kick: the frigging derrieres of the "shrub cabal"... they should all be in jail !!!

[salguine]

9. The only statement of yours I disagree with is

"They can call it Obama's war when it's really theirs"...Not anymore. It WAS their war. It's solidly Obama's war now.