liblady

at who? ??? why???

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obvious Child

He wouldn't be the first president or world leader to do that. Granted, at least he's not taking troops away from hunting down Bin Laden like a former president did.

For everyone that criticizes Obama on this, why have none of them actually addressed the real problem of lack of development that also existed under Bush?

Seems to me this is just another pathetic veiled partisan mode of attack.

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Aunt Spiker

Sorry...

At Obama - for upping actions that have proven to be failure in this particular fight.

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obvious Child

I still think Bush did the right thing. We could not allow Afghanistan to be used as a base for terror operations. That said, we probably should have known going in that it was going to be a mess. We probably should have flooded the region with troops and installed a relatively strong pro-US dictator. And they call me a liberal.

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Erod

So what should we have done after 9/11?

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liblady

he's between a rock and a hard place.....damned if he does.......


can you imagine the outcry if we pulled out completely right now?

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liblady

targeted attacks, i think. really gone after bin laden. bombed the **** out of the taliban, but no occupying forces.

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liblady

or, we could have bombed the crap out of them and not used ground forces.

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Erod

"Occupying" is a bit of a stretch. How does one occupy a virtual desert run by a glorified gang of drug smugglers with no rule of law?

It is a staging area for the long, arduous task of gradually weeding out terrorists where they used to find complete freedom to roam.

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obvious Child

Possibly, but that isn't land denial and we'd still need ground contacts for intel. Remember the point was to deny them the use of the land. Air and naval power have never been able to do that without turning that land into a complete wasteland.

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