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2009-09-21 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Herb Clusomble8159 2009-09-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Obama: I don't have a deadline for withdrawal. But I'm certainly not somebody who believes in indefinite occupations of other countries. Keep in mind what happened when I came in. We had been adrift, I think, when it came to our Afghanistan strategy. And what I said was that we are going to do a top to bottom review of what's taking place there...."

Ann Althouse (who enthusiastically voted for Obama) finds this worrisome...the fact that Obama compares the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan to that of the Soviet Union.

I only point this out to vent that nothing...NOTHING...pisses me off more than the assholes that vote first and whine later.

Posted by Woozle Uneter9007 2009-09-21 00:35|| 2009-09-21 00:35|| Front Page Top

#2 FREEREPUBLIC > GENERAL WARNS OF AFGHAN LOSS WITHOUT MORE TROOPS [30-40000 additional].

versus

* NEWMAX > DE BORCHGRAVE - RISK OF TET-STYLE TALIBAN OFFENSIVE GROWS, +
* FREEREPUBLIC > ANGLICAN ARCHBISHOP SAYS MUSLIMS MASS PRODUCING CHILDREN TO TAKE OVER AFRICA [massive local economic intervention-ventures + promise of multiple wives].

IOW > AFRICANS BEING PROMISED JOBS, FREE $$$, + EXTRA WOMEN, ETC. ALL IN THE NAME OF GOD???

Posted by JosephMendiola">JosephMendiola 2009-09-21 01:17|| na]">[na] 2009-09-21 01:17|| Front Page Top

#3 ARCHBISHOP > there is no LEADER in the CHRISTIAN WORLD/CHURCH that has shown ability to respond to the escalating spread of Islam.

Posted by JosephMendiola">JosephMendiola 2009-09-21 01:20|| na]">[na] 2009-09-21 01:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Osama
President Bush, the message said, was leaving his successor with a "heavy inheritance" and he doubted that the US could continue fighting al-Qaeda for decades.

"If he withdraws from the war, it is a military defeat. If he continues, he drowns in economic crisis."
Obama, probably in response:
And for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that, "Our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken. You cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you."

Obama now (Guess he figured Osama was right after all)
I'm not interested in just being in Afghanistan for the sake of being in Afghanistan or saving face or, in some way you know, sending a message that America is here for the duration.

Posted by tipper 2009-09-21 06:34|| 2009-09-21 06:34|| Front Page Top

#5
Ann Althouse (who enthusiastically voted for Obama) finds this worrisome...the fact that Obama compares the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan to that of the Soviet Union.

I only point this out to vent that nothing...NOTHING...pisses me off more than the assholes that vote first and whine later.

Call me old fashioned, but I think Ms. Althouse's change of political heart has more to do with her getting laid on a regular basis..

Posted by badanov 2009-09-21 07:12|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2009-09-21 07:12|| Front Page Top

#6 I thought Afghanistan was the 'good war'?

More dishonesty from the left. After 9/11, I knew plenty of lefties who said that their BDS was based on Iraq, and that pursuing OBL in Afghanistan was OK.

All along, I knew that even if W had never gone into Iraq, sooner or later they would have found a reason to look upon the Afghanistan TO as bad too, and a reason to have BDS.

Now I have my proof.

Posted by no mo uro 2009-09-21 07:39|| 2009-09-21 07:39|| Front Page Top

#7 But I'm certainly not somebody who believes in indefinite occupations of other countries.

Well, why not practice 'first in, first out' with Germany and Japan, then South Korea.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-09-21 08:04|| 2009-09-21 08:04|| Front Page Top

#8 Obama's new strategy, blame it on Bush and pull out?

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-09-21 10:01|| 2009-09-21 10:01|| Front Page Top

#9 President Barack Obama's confusion over Afghanistan

Telegraph View: President Obama must take the opportunity to clarify his war aims in Afghanistan - and dispel the dangerous confusion he has so carelessly created.

Last week, we thought we knew what Barack Obama's Afghanistan strategy was; today, we do not have much of a clue. His out-of-the-blue musings in his Sunday morning TV interviews that "until I'm satisfied we've got the right strategy, I'm not going to be sending some young man or woman over there", indicated an alarming funk at the White House.

Posted by Willy 2009-09-21 16:22|| 2009-09-21 16:22|| Front Page Top

#10 "Last week, we thought we knew what Barack Obama's Afghanistan strategy was; today, we do not have much of a clue."

Bambi doesn't either, Willy. >:-(

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-09-21 18:13|| 2009-09-21 18:13|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm sure the troops are "skeptical" about you too Bambi.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2009-09-21 21:00|| 2009-09-21 21:00|| Front Page Top

#12 it makes sense to insist on the right strategy. absolutely. Having read/skimmed Mccrystals 65 page document, I think it will be hard for the admin to say it does NOT represent a sound strategy.

The problem is not the lack of a real good strategy from CentCom. They have THAT paper in hand.

The problem is in Kabul. its first name is hamid, its last name is kharzai. And THAT is not McCrystsals to deal with. Its Eikenberry's and Holbrookes. And ultimately Obama's.

Kharzai believes the US wont leave and let him fall, and cant pull off a coup. The audience for withdrawl talk, hopefully, is Kharzai. But at some point, BHO, who has promised to talk with everyone from chavez to putin, has to go to Kabul and lay it on the line with Kharzai.

Posted by liberal hawk 2009-09-21 22:37|| 2009-09-21 22:37|| Front Page Top

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