Deja vu all over again: Obama to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan

It disappoints me that he keeps invoking September 11 and Al Qaeda, all the while ignoring that they arose in Saudi Arabia. I believe he knows better and that makes these remarks all the more suspect. He tries to mitigate the impact by suggesting that NATO and ‘our friends’ support this.

They may support it in theory, but I’ll be surprised to see them send a significant number of troops to join the 30,000.

It is true that the inexcuseable dithering of the Bush administration has put Obama in this damned if you do, and damned if you don’t situation.

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