Interminable war in Afghanistan? Is that really what Obama wants? A transfer of the destruction and carnage of Iraq to Afghanistan?
Did Obama check in with the Russians and take a lesson from their experience there? Or read up on the bleak history of warfare in that neck of the woods? Is the Pentagon the best resource to fight the Taliban? Really? Is Osama bin Laden forcing Obama's hand to leverage the military and increase its presence there? Really? Is there a viable military solution to the problem of religious extremism? Is paying off militant religious extremists in Iraq really the long term solution to centuries of internecine divisiveness born of opposition, distrust and outright hositility?
None of this makes a whole lot of sense. And for Obama to perpetuate the conventional military response in this prefabricated "war on terror" is to cave in to the the Powers That Be and continue to allow the Pentagon to dictate foreign policy in the Middle East. Apparently, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Alas.
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