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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm NOT celebrating the president's trip.
It's always good to see the president visiting the troops and marking the 1st anniversery of OBL's death. But Obama took with him the message that we're going to be committed one way or another until 2020, and THAT is a huge mistake.
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I'm NOT celebrating the president's trip. (Original Post)
RandySF
May 2012
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vaberella
(24,634 posts)1. Can I get a link when he said that cause about 40,000
more troops are set to be coming out this year.
Offering security assistance is not the same as fighting a war.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)3. Who pays for this "security assistance"?
Also, does this "security assistance" include mercenaries?
Daniel537
(1,560 posts)4. I'm with you.
If we can leave Iraq, where there's probably more al-Qaeda today than in Afghanistan thanks to Dubya's Folly, why not do the same in Afghanistan? There's no excuse. But the Pres. seems to actually believe all this stuff about it being the "good war". Tell that to Alexander the Great, the Brits and the late Soviets.
Egalitariat
(1,631 posts)5. This trip is about winning undecided votes
And it will work.