Barack Obama

[TracyCoxx]

There's about 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. The rest are Taliban. I never really knew what Bush's beef was with the Taliban. Sure they suck, but we're not going to change that mentality over there, and they are entitled to it, as long as they don't interfere with us. Our war is not with the Taliban, it's with Al Qaeda. And right now it looks like they're in Pakistan. Pakistan should answer for that. We're giving them a lot of money to help us track Al Qaeda down. If they're allowing Al Qaeda to run around in their country, I say we do some air strikes, and renegotiate.

So what are we doing in Afghanistan? BO hasn't really said. Just that he's sending 30000 more troops there (finally), and then starting to bring them home before the 2012 elections. We have to have a goal there. Does he intend to completely wipe out the Taliban? Then he's in for something like Iraq. Maybe worse if he doesn't handle the Afghan war as well as Bush did.

Question... while BO is attacking the Taliban, is he apologizing too?

I will say Bush, or the military commanders or whoever, royally up Tora Bora. That could have been a clean victory.

[randolph]

I found the part of his speech about the Afgan army needing more training really ludicrous. We already have more soldiers in Afghanistan than the Afghan army. Besides, the Afghans are some of the toughest fighters in the world. They don't need more training, they need to be on the "right" side. If they don't want the Taliban then let them work it out. We need to focus on Pakistan and keep those rockets and a-bombs secure. Obama seems to be going down the same path as Bush/Cheney.

[jimnaseum]

Since August '45, the office of President only has one real job -preventing a nuclear war. The Government is so bereaucrocized that you could put a cardboard cut-out in the oval office and nobody would notice (Reagan)
In the summer of '45 we had our brand new B-29 bombers fly over Tokyo one night and drop incindiary bombs, the city was built largely of wood and we killed 100,000 "Jap" civilians. (More than the individual A-bombs killed.) That was a good policy back then. Today, you BOW to the Japanese leader. Because we're going to need the japanese, chinese, russians, and anybody else we can find to prevent Iran, Israel, N Korea, Pakistan, and India from selling Thermonuclear Missles on eBay.