Mr. Shaman
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Priority 1 (for "conservatives") is to whine & cry, every time George Bush is tagged with failure. These would be the same "conservatives" who consistently-insist that people need to Take Responsibility For Their Own Actions! (typically saved for whatever minority's appropriate
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Seeing-as-how "The President's responsible for everything, under his watch!", who ELSE (but George Bush) WOULD be responsible for not dealing with Afghanistan.....when ALL options existed??!!!
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmtPBTybQ9k]YouTube - The Hunt For Bin Laden[/ame]
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Fast Forward, now.....as George Will says....and, now, "conservatives" want to blame Barack Obama for the present-situation (in Afghanistan)??
Sorry, "conservatives"......Obama was/is RIGHT (as usual)....and, he's gotten a back-handed blessing from George Will!!!
Seeing-as-how "The President's responsible for everything, under his watch!", who ELSE (but George Bush) WOULD be responsible for not dealing with Afghanistan.....when ALL options existed??!!!
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmtPBTybQ9k]YouTube - The Hunt For Bin Laden[/ame]
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Fast Forward, now.....as George Will says....and, now, "conservatives" want to blame Barack Obama for the present-situation (in Afghanistan)??
Sorry, "conservatives"......Obama was/is RIGHT (as usual)....and, he's gotten a back-handed blessing from George Will!!!
June 17, 2010
"It has been four months since Gen. Stanley McChrystal said, in words that reflect the military's embrace of nation-building, "We've got a government in a box, ready to roll in" to Marja. It took longer than expected to reach a more inconclusive outcome than expected in that town of about 80,000, which last month McChrystal called "a bleeding ulcer."
Fast, however, is U.S. policy. In his reverent new book "The Promise: President Obama, Year One," Jonathan Alter reconstructs the administration's deliberations about Afghanistan in Autumn 2009. Vice President Joe Biden, walking with the president to the decisive meeting with Gen. David Petraeus and Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was assured by Obama that the policy of beginning a significant withdrawal in 2011 was a direct presidential order. Alter reports that Obama, whose mantra for the military was "Do not occupy what you cannot transfer" – what you cannot soon make Afghanistan's responsibility – said to Petraeus, "I want you to be honest with me. You can do this in 18 months?"
Petraeus: "Sir, I'm confident we can train and hand over to the ANA (Afghan National Army) in that time frame."
Obama: "If you can't do the things you say you can in 18 months, then no one is going to suggest we stay, right?"
Petraeus: "Yes, sir, in agreement."
Mullen: "Yes, sir."
Biden told Alter: "In July of 2011 you're going to see a whole lot of people moving out. Bet on it." Bet on this, too: The Taliban will increase the tempo of fighting between now and November, when the NATO meeting in Lisbon will assess the evidence of success in Afghanistan. It took 2,520 days for the war to take 500 American lives; it took 627 days for it to take the next 500.
Perhaps it was coincidental that after several weeks of bad news from Afghanistan, on Monday there was good news, of sorts, about what Obama has previously called Afghanistan's "vast potential." The New York Times reported that "senior American government officials" say Afghanistan has "nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits," which might fundamentally alter the nation's economy "and perhaps the Afghan war itself."
This "stunning potential," in Petraeus' description of the minerals, will encourage the perception that the U.S. engagement there has something to do with economic aggrandizement, will aggravate Afghanistan's pandemic corruption and will intensify the Taliban's determination to prevail in a place where even good news has, like a scorpion, a sting in its tail."
There's no other way to say it, except.....it's time to BAIL....on another BUSHCO (Inc.) SCREW-UP!!!!!
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