Truly Obama's War

[summers73]

Originally Posted by Soccersupporter

They hate us because we are America, The Little Satan.

I've got some swampland in Arizona, real cheap. Wanna buy?

[strawflower]

Originally Posted by Rick Roma

How original. Hint: Obama could have pulled the troops out as soon as he took office.

It's not that easy. You can't just take troops out of a war zone and expect for everything to be good.

[EinsteinsGhost]

Reagan, the founding father of Al Qaeda, made a mistake. W Bush continued the tradition, using Iraq as a diversionary tactic. Now, the same people who supported those two are asking Obama to follow the "conservative" guideline, knowing well he ran on a platform that was about shifting focus back on Al Qaeda, and especially helping Pakistan be more secure from them, as well as the Mujahideens be a little less of a nuisance to India.

But hey... replace Pakistan with Israel, and we would be doing God's work.

[Leisesturm]

Originally Posted by Soccersupporter

Only the ignorant believe it is not Obama's war now. When the French President looks smarter, has superior commander-in-chief skills than the US President we know we are in trouble.

You've pulled a whole lot of meaning out of a very questionable story. Will you own your stupidity as well as Sarkozy owns his when this all blows up? You wouldn't know superior skill as a Commander in Chief if it peed down your leg.

H

[Soccersupporter]

Originally Posted by Leisesturm

You've pulled a whole lot of meaning out of a very questionable story. Will you own your stupidity as well as Sarkozy owns his when this all blows up? You wouldn't know superior skill as a Commander in Chief if it peed down your leg.

H

Too bad some can't face up and own their own ignorance when they made the mistake and voted for Obama in the first place.

[Catrick]

Originally Posted by strawflower

It's not that easy. You can't just take troops out of a war zone and expect for everything to be good.

If I recall when Obama was talking about cutting back in both Iraq and Afghanistan during the election, the republicans were screaming bloody murder that he didn't know squat about foreign affairs and if he did that, the world would end.

These are inherited wars. And you just can't pull out the troops. Let's face it, there will never be peace in Iraq with three factions trying to run the country. It's never going to happen. The best we can do is pull out as quickly as we can turning everyting over to who ever is in power. But odds are it's going to be Viet Nam II.

Afghanistan wouldn't be a problem now if we had finished what we started by going after the taliban and the money they were throwing at terrrorists. But we had to go after some guy not giving us a problem because he might have had wmds. Yeah, that all made sense to me. Now we have to basically start over in Afghanistan because while we were busy in Iraq, they started taking control again.

I would have thought less of Obama is he didn't listen to his military advisors and try and finish what we started. At least there is a timeline. Whether that pans out, who knows.

Innocents unfortunately die in wars. But there would be far fewer of them if we had stayed the course and finished what we started without interruption.

I am anti-war, but it's a disservice to our soldiers and the freedom loving people of those countries to abandon them now.

Inherited wars suck. Ask LBJ.