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Obama's Afghan test

Allen125 Wrote: Aug 31, 2009 4:34 PM
Are the Brits and Americans that have the only armies that will fight?

What happened to the U.N forces? Why were they unable to make progress in Afganistan? Don't the Dutch and Germans realize they are much closer targets to the terrorists?

The Afghan war belongs to President Obama. He may not have broken it but by his rhetoric, his actions and his commitments, he now owns it.

The question for the president, politically and strategically, is whether we need to fight this war for our own nation’s security. If we succeed in Afghanistan, will we merely push the battle lines into Pakistan? That would be even more threatening to our security.

“The situation in Afghanistan is akin to a multi-dimensional game of chess,” said Mark Davidson, former member of the Clinton administration and a Navy Reserve captain. “No move, activity...

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