dday over at FDL

I support the President's policy in Afghaistan.

with about 5 other people, the world over, none of whom are either particularly bright, or have any actual "at risk" in the conflict.

of course, in fairness, aside from wasting 20-30k more troops there, the president's afghanistan "policy" is unknown, to all but his closest advisors. when and if you figure out what it is, do please let the rest of the class in on it.

When Obama entered office, we had fewer than 40,000 troops.  Within little more than a month, he sent another 25,000 to 30,000 (reports vary).  For some reason, that won him the Peace Prize, it seems.

So Obama's commitment of another 30,000 to 35,000 troops will put the total over 100,000 in Afghanistan -- not yet at levels in Vietnam by the end of 1964, but there is time. . . .

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Dems made a huge mistake, IMHO, pre-judging the surge. I opposed the surge and was convinced it couldn't work.

Had a better politician being running in 2008, Dem opposition to the surge would have been the issue, not an imaginary vote on Iraq that never happened.

Dems are sending US troops into harm's way. Afghanistan is now officially a Dem war, no matter what the spinners tell us about Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld. There are twenty-six other countries in Afghanistan.

No matter what personal reservations some Dems may rightly have about the decision to commit more troops to Afghanistan, to outsource to Blackwater, to leave troops in Iraq, these are Dem decisions all made before 2010.

Iran is promising to build ten new nuclear facilities. Israel is ready to pull the trigger now. The right, across Europe and in the US is breathing fire right now on a host of issues.

On Tuesday Barack Obama will announce a major escalation of the war in Afghanistan. A week later he'll be in Oslo accepting his Nobel Peace Prize. Pretty good timing, no?

Makes perfect sense.  Obama has the peace prize to prove it is the right course to take to make peace.

So just how specifically will America be the exception?  

Just how many extreme muslin's are there in the world that will die to kill any and all Americans.   911 was carried out by only a handful of them.  Seems to me you would have to eradicate all the Islam extremist to be successful in AFG  

So the real question is just how much time, treasure and blood are the American people willing to put on the line to say they won in AFG?  IMO you would have to be in AFG forever.  

Doesn't  the American voter have anything to say if they want this war or not?  Remember Vietnam that was a useless war IMO.  It accomplished nothing.  I am a Vietnam veteran.

I rather invest all this money in super protecting  and fortifying  the US. but only within our borders.  No one or nothing comes in to the U.S. without a  severe inspection.