David Sirota has a few questions following war speech

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I love Sirota's independent-minded commentary.
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Some Simple Questions After Obama's Afghanistan War Speech
by: David Sirota
Tue Dec 01, 2009 at 20:41

~SNIP~

Here they are in no particular order:

- What percentage of those kids in the West Point audience will die because of this decision?

- Would you be OK sending yourself or a loved one over to face combat and potentially death for the mission Obama articulated in Afghanistan? If not, how could you support sending other people?

- Why do so many pundits and pro-Obama activists continue to focus on how "hard" and "difficult" and "trying" this decision is for President Obama, rather than on how "hard" and "difficult" and "trying" this will be for the soldiers who are killed? Doesn't Obama get to make this decision, and then go home to the comfortable confines of a butlered White House, while thousands of Americans will be sent 7,000 miles from home to face their potential deaths? Isn't the latter "harder" than the former?

- Where's the antiwar movement and the marches and the organizing and the protesting? Where's all those well-funded groups that protested George W. Bush's war policy? Or was all that really just about hating George Bush and embracing blind Partisan War Syndrome?

Much more here:
Source: http://www.openleft.com/diary/16271/some-questions-after-obamas-speech

[kaiden]

1. However, during his radio program he called people names.

Like: ignorant, soulless, sychophant, war monger, cult worshipper -- he lost what could have been a great dialogue at that point.

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2. while US and Afghan sons and daughters die in war Obama will be out playing golf nt