Obama Outlines New Afghanistan Strategy

HAH! who among you didn't agree with invading afghanistan. I did way way back in 200...1? probably 80 % of the nation did too, maybe more. i bet you did too. afghanistan was the right war. still is, it just should have been won years ago, instead our dick of an ex-president fucked things up about as badly as you possibly could.

that doesn't mean we should evacuate afghanistan and essentially hand it back to the taliban though. the only reason the war is still going is because the troops were stretched too thin and couldn't cover large sections of territory and because bush didn't have the know-how to address the pakistan problem. it's not like the insurgents can actually stand up to the US army. Thus, the surge will work. Example...Iraq. much as I hate to admit it the surge DID work in Iraq.

This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.

this is ridiculous. hes continuing bush's policy mainly because they work for the same puppet masters. they are using the fear mongering technique again to further their agenda. this war on terror is b.s. and can never be won.

We're going to continue on this merry-go-round until we address the original lie of 9/11.

So this "new strategy" is more of the same but with more people shooting bullets, right?

I'm probably one of those 4,000.

I'm sorry but this is where we should have been all along. Invading Iraq was taking our eye off the ball. The Taliban/Al Qaeda safe havens in Afghanistan/Pakistan are truly a threat to our national security. Plus, I'm in agreement with most foreign policy analysts that the potential collapse of Pakistan is the most significant threat to not only American national security, but the world as a whole.

We are going in with counter-insurgency techniques, placing more troops in cities and villages to protect the population. This is the main reason more troops are required, to cover as much of the area as we can. Lets see if it works. And from what Obama says, he is playing the "wait-and-see" game as well.

I don't like it, but if this were more of the same, Obama would have said,"Al Qaeda exists, and we must hunt it down wherever it exists. And therefore, we will be invading Canada this weekend."

This excerpt from a NYTimes article on his speech places the rest of the speech into context;

"President Obama promised neither to write a “'blank check'” nor to “'blindly stay the course'” if his risky new strategy does not achieve its ambitious goals."

Obama's war. What would success look like?

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