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My Quote: Common People

It is always the common people who stand at the doorway, always willing to safeguard and protect those behind them; all the while the protected shout, throw stones and faintly offer to sacrafice their lives for those standing in the doorway.  Bob Sever

Can you just imagine

Now that Obama won the Nobel Prize for Peace can you just imagine the conundrum he is currently facing regarding Afghanistan.  He has the promise he made during his campaign to get out of Iraq within 18 months of his election, just to have this situation sprung on him.  His left friends are saying "pull out" altogether and the military is saying we will "lose" most surely if we don't reinforce NOW.    Well, while he is savoring the peace prize (which he got nominated for within 6 weeks of taking on the Presidency - go figure!), pulling the plug on the missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic (really really really dumb!), entrenched in Guantanamo Bay (broken promise), tending to Czar replacements (rightly so), committee meetings with everyone that is someone or knows someone (he apparently needs lots and lots of people to help him think) to discuss some obscure General's request for more help, while we have our "kids" in Afghanistan putting...