On how Obama sees the war.
My takeaway from all this was that President Obama had come to believe, as had I, that the very ambitious set of goals articulated by his predecessor were unattainable but that he believed saying that was politically untenable. Since he had campaigned on Afghanistan as a "war of necessity" that the Bush administration had under-resourced to pursue a "war of choice" in Iraq, he couldn't very well say, mere months into his term, that Afghanistan wasn't worth it after all. Further, bugging out before the job was done would lead to charges of weakness that no president, particularly a Democratic president with no military bona fides, wants to fight...
So let me get this straight. They don't take Obama at his word. In fact, they suspect he would send American troops to die for a war he didn't believe we could win for political reasons and...YOU SUPPORT THIS? Sick. Deranged. Horribly cynical. And wrong in every sense one can be wrong.
This is all making me ill.
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Obama campaigned with energy and slogans but I always said, we're hiring a politician; what we're going to get is politics. He's a fucking career politician. He's never led nor been a leader. His primary skill on his resume is making face. So how is this any different? Or BP? Or health care? Or the economic turn? Photo op. Tell the judge to do what. People are getting sick of it and if anyone with a large publication does a piece on what you've pointed out is sickening - buying face with American lives in Afghanistan for political gain - the US is already weary of Obama's politics. There's my rant. I'm sick of it all. - Mel (couldn't remember my password to log in)
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