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 their lives on the line and dying while he shines the prize!
Get politics out of war. Wars are terrible things, don't get me wrong! But, either we are in this war (for our very existence - by the way) to win or let's just lay down our arms altogether. Give the military what they need to win, not just to remain in the trenches and maintain ground. Its been said by several great presidents, the hardest thing about the job was to send kids into Harms Way. I say, its wrong to send them and not give them the resources to get the job done in the first place....you play with their very lives!
My heart goes out to all who have lost a son or a daughter, husband or wife, relative or friend, we are all effected and in this together. I am one saddened American who is fed up with how our elected officials who would rather debate then act. There is no right answer on this one issue that will work for all Americans. But, either we go in to win or get out! Just leaving our kids in Harms Way for the sake of debate is not a conundrum, I say it is a travesty!
Now this loss would be much worse then the loss of the Olympics being held in Chicago. Who said the presidency was easy!
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 their lives on the line and dying while he shines the prize!
Get politics out of war. Wars are terrible things, don't get me wrong! But, either we are in this war (for our very existence - by the way) to win or let's just lay down our arms altogether. Give the military what they need to win, not just to remain in the trenches and maintain ground. Its been said by several great presidents, the hardest thing about the job was to send kids into Harms Way. I say, its wrong to send them and not give them the resources to get the job done in the first place....you play with their very lives!
My heart goes out to all who have lost a son or a daughter, husband or wife, relative or friend, we are all effected and in this together. I am one saddened American who is fed up with how our elected officials who would rather debate then act. There is no right answer on this one issue that will work for all Americans. But, either we go in to win or get out! Just leaving our kids in Harms Way for the sake of debate is not a conundrum, I say it is a travesty!
Now this loss would be much worse then the loss of the Olympics being held in Chicago. Who said the presidency was easy!
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