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The war isn't an issue because we are out of Iraq, and we are going to be out of Afghanistan soon enough... At this point, the Taliban is just running out the clock, and even Karzai knows where this is all going.
Personally, I disagree with how Obama handled Afghanistan, and I've said so. I think any obligation we had to prop up the Karzai brothers ended when he stole the 2009 election. We should have started packing our stuff there.
I think Obama painted himself into a political corner. He called Afghanistan a "War of Necessity" when it really wasn't.
But for the record....
We had 11,101 gun murders and 16,000 gun suicides in the US in 2012.
We had 402 Military casualties in Afghanistan in 2012 (Down from a high of 711 in 2010.)
Yes, gun deaths in this country really are a bigger deal.
Link.
And the reason there are fewer deaths in Afghanistan is because there are fewer soldiers there.
Remind me why we were there?
Oh yes, to kill Osama Bin Laden.
Okay, why in the fuck are we still there????
And wanna guess why you like the way Obama is handling Afghanistan????
Because their little or no media coverage. How are you supposed to be upset about something that you never hear about.
Do you have seriousl reading comprehension problems. I SPECIFICALLY said I don't approve of his Afghanistan policy. We should have gotten out of there four years ago. Or at least after Bin Laden took a dirt nap.
I do approve of the fact that while Bush sent the Army off to settle his Pappy's fued with Saddam, Obama actually KILLED Bin Laden, an execution that was about 10 years too late as far as I'm concerned.
Still doesn't take away from the fact. .
We have too many guns in teh wrong hands and too many murders, sucides and accidental deaths because of them.
So you support this effort to take guns away of the only people that need them and don't use them. I see no movement to take them out of the hands of the real perps. I only see action against the law-abiding citizen. They figure if they take our guns that will make it harder for the criminal to get them. And progressives thought in 1920 that prohibition would end alcohol use too. Look how well that ended up.