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 Obama’s Troop Shuffle Leaves Us DizzyPosted on Mar 8, 2009
The president will withdraw 12,000 troops from Iraq over the next six months, but where will he send them? Back to America? Ski trip to Aspen? Or perhaps he’ll just airlift the veterans to Afghanistan, where a similar number of reinforcements has been promised over a similar period. Here’s hoping Iraq can hold it together long enough for Afghanistan to get its 15 minutes as the new hopeless-quagmire-money-hole du jour. Speaking of quagmires, here’s a new peace plan. For each girls’ school you raze, Taliban, you have to take 1,000 shares of Citigroup.
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By cyrena, March 9, 2009 at 7:04 pm Link to this comment
By Thomas O. Anderson, March 9 at 1:57 pm #
Shifting troops from one occupied country to another. Hey, all you Obama “peace train” cultists, is this what MLK would do?
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Well Thomas O. Anderson,
We don’t really know what MLK would do in terms of Afghanistan, but I suspect he would have pulled troops out of Iraq just like Obama is doing, seeing as how he felt about Vietnam and all. I’m not sure what to compare or contrast our involvement in Afghanistan (now) to the times of MLK’s Era, but I’m just guessing that he would find a way to disengage from there as well, if he had in fact he had inherited two WARS/occupations.
I suspect that Obama will likely do the same, but it’s only been six weeks, so we might have to wait long enough to find a plan that might work, and then give it the necessary time to do that.
Meantime, like Rowland Scherman, I too decry the smart ass tone of the article. I’m particularly annoyed with the reference to the Taliban razing girls’ schools, because that’s not why our military is there. Or at least it SHOULDN’T be. If there are human rights issues in Afghanistan,(and of course there are) then the International system can and should be the one to deal with it. We don’t want to hear that our troops are in Afghanistan to combat religious/cultural/traditional issues among it’s population.
President Obama has concerns about the stability of the area in terms of continuing global terrorist operations. This is a legitimate concern. On the other hand, my own opinion is that the presence of the US military in any country that spawns these groups (specifically the Middle East, and the larger portion of Central Asia) is what promotes the terrorism that creates the legitimate concern. He just needs to find another way to deal with them.
Report thisMeantime, according to Rachael Maddow, Pakistan has deteriorated into a failed state, and so has Mexico…right there next door.
By ooh., March 9, 2009 at 2:17 pm Link to this comment
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How can you have the words “Taliban” and “Moderate” in the same sentence. Ever.
Report thisDoesn’t exist
By soldier-cold, March 9, 2009 at 2:13 pm Link to this comment
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i hope obama knows what he’s doing (after all, i voted for him)... but peter bergman from CNN is right about it being hard to negotiate with the taliban especially if they are (or think they are)winning. EVERYONE knows or SHOULD know that no matter what, they wont stop attacking our troops and country until every one of us is converted or killed. THIS IS THEIR MISSION, the extremist’s vision and message. EVEN if we did cut a deal, the taliban WILL continue their abuse of women and teaching their children to kill everyone who does not follow their way of life. let gen petraeus come up with a way to work with the afghan people. they are the key in turning tis around but we also have to be careful about civilian casualties from our side because that is what makes the people of afghanistan turn against us one family at a time.
Report thisBy Rowland Scherman, March 9, 2009 at 1:20 pm Link to this comment
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Ski trip to Aspen would be the best choice.
Although this reader decries the smart ass tone of the article. Who wrote it? A Karl Rove/Rush Limbaugh clone?
Report thisBy Thomas O. Anderson, March 9, 2009 at 10:57 am Link to this comment
Shifting troops from one occupied country to another. Hey, all you Obama “peace train” cultists, is this what MLK would do?
Report thisBy dr wu, March 9, 2009 at 10:37 am Link to this comment
US leave Iraq when the oil runs dry.
Report thisUS leaves Afghanistan when AIG/Citigroup runs dry.
By thebeerdoctor, March 9, 2009 at 10:22 am Link to this comment
One small bright spot, recently, when asked if we were winning the war in Afghanistan, President Obama replied: “No.”
Report thisBy skulz fontaine, March 9, 2009 at 6:49 am Link to this comment
Ah Afghanistan, that quixotic little berg where despots and tyrants go to get their asses handed back to them by the locals.
Report thisDear Prezdent Obama:
Yo Holmes, can you say “Tet?” Maybe you could get Uncle Rahm to spell that out for you. Maybe. Hey Prez, how come Uncle Rahm couldn’t be bothered to serve in the U.S. military? You know, just curious.
respectfully and well, maybe,
skulz
Gaza Strip, Utah/Nevada