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Old 12-10-2009, 05:51 AM   #11
HoniSoniproca

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Jviehe is right to criticize the Obama administration on its handling of the situation in Afghanistan. Obama is over 1/5 of the way thru his term, and it’s been over a year since he said taking the fight to al Qaeda and the Taliban would be his top priority. All he’s done so far is send in some more troops and make some staffing changes while the situation steadily deteriorates. For all his talk of a need for victory in Afghanistan, and I agree we do need to win there, he has yet to come up with victory conditions or a strategy for achieving them. Instead of showing some leadership and acting like the commander-in-chief, he’s wasting his time and energy on health care crap; an issue that should be put off until after our service men and women are out of harm’s way. It’s not simply a partisan attack when even the people over there aren’t sure what the objectives are. The one who really abused it as a wedge issue was Obama, when he used it to look like a tough guy to help him get elected, then bailed on it once in office in favor of partisan politics, leaving our service members high and dry wondering what they’re supposed to be doing aside from being moving targets.
*frowns as his ambien dissolves in his gullet*

ahoy mate!

CYDharta, aye...

i agree that thus far that the Obama administration has not yet been able to find an acceptable way to conclude our mighty nation's war in Afghanistan.

in seven years, the previous adminstration grappled with the numerous difficulties that had nettled its efforts to bring stability to this key part 'o the world. imma willin' to give mr. Obama more than seven months or so to find a way to navigate a path to vittory here.

his position be difficult, though.

his own captains on the bridge, Carl Levin and Nancy Pelosi be in a mutinous mood. the other crew that make up the bulk 'o the democratic party have yet to coalesce behind the embattled president on this issue.

the news from General McChyrstal has been less than encouragin'.

the recent elections have been troublin' too.

the Afghani soldiers trained to aid our fightin' men and women seem somewhat useless...somethin' imma hard pressed to blame our commander and chief for.

NATO doesn't seem to be pitchin' in...somethin' they didn't do for the now departed George Bush, either.

ontop 'o all that, America itself seems somewhat disengaged from our pursuits in that troubled region 'o the world, to say the least, aye? if our president tried to raise taxes to pay fer this war, he'd be keelhauled by the public, imma sure.

Mr. Obama be uppin' our commitment in force to almost seventy thousand and he's reviewin' his options. imma no expert, far from it me friend...but i do not see any easy or quick answers. still...i feel this war be a crucial one fer our land, and imma goin' to wait a bit longer to see if a solution can be found.

regardin' the flag wavin' Jviehe, who uttered these self aggrandizin' words..."I have not been doing a good job as an American in being personally aware of the cost of freedom"...

oh sweet jeebus, spare me...

*hurls his cutlass into the deck*

i find his usin' what was supposed to be a tribute and reminder 'o the cost of american life in our struggles to also attack the president, grotesque and disingenuous. the worst kinda political opportunism. at least the long departed Samantha never resorted to such bad taste in her mention 'o the fallen in her similar "tribute" threads.

AYE!

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