Obama to Unveil War Strategy for Afghanistan Next Week

I don't mean the Japanese. We need to tell Japan that if they stonewall us they will need to change there constitution so they can arm themselves, and not depend on us to protect them anymore. It is definitely time for hardball with everyone especially our own congress and president. America has gone soft and our warriors are paying the price damn it!

I'm sure you were equally upset when George W. Bush fiddled for SEVEN YEARS while Afghanistan burned. That's a wee bit longer than the 8 months Obama has been weighing this. (And it's not like the war was put on hold during that time either). And at least Obama is planning exit strategies, a concept bush/cheney/rumsfeld never seemed to understand, let alone plan for.

I can't believe the hate - I think he is doing a great job - ending a war without harm to our men takes a good deal of thought - we finally have a president who can do that - why you would think the President of the US would sell his fellow man down the river is beyond me - you are listening to Beck, Limbaugh etc. You all say Obama backers drink Koolaid - I believe you guys are drinking a much stronger drink than Koolaid - whatever it is I hear and read hate, hate, hate - Remember "all you need is love"

How many times did George Bush let Osama "escape"? Osama Bin Laden is a scapegoat to make Americans Happy. The war on terror and 9/11 were created in a hollywood studio by a war hungry monster who gets fat off of stirring up trouble. Obama did not drop the towers or start this war, he is also not a commander on the battlefield. The commander-in-chief is merely the scapegoat for conservative rags who refuse to blame our failing military men for the horrible job that they have done. No one ever wants to blame the people on the field, but the truth is that most orders for major troop movements happen on the battlefield, and our military commanders, generals, strategic war planners etc. have all failed. Our president hesitates because he can not trust the opinion of commanders who have repeatedly shown lack luster results. "nobama" Thats cute, you should make a t-shirt and sell it at nascar events. Our president doesn't waffle, he makes informed decisions after much deliberation. Now that I've used the word deliberation, stare at it until you can remember what it spells.

LOL! Does anyone else hear circus music in their head when NObama starts to speak?

carl22grant
tell it like it is sweetheart obama is nothing BUT a lying big mouth that would do anything to get a vote well he will never get my vote

HE IS A LIERS LIERS LIERS BIG MOUTH LIERS

Waiting to make an informed decision before believing our military commanders who have failed repeatedly and produced nothing is not waffling. "Nobama"? That sign didn't work the first time. I think George Bush did a much better job at "letting his people go" than "nobama". Obama's thinking of a way to get out of this war. Republicans started this war back when we "liberated" afghanistan during the Reagen years leaving them heavily armed and thoroughly impoverished, destitute, and hungry. If you do not feel safe with Obama in the whitehouse you trust bad reporting, rodeo clown reporters, and liars more than your president.

the bush war plan for afghanistan was...?

ths guy has not made one decision yet ,with his no military how would he know what to do about the troups

Mr. Obama has put more troops in Afghanistan than Bush did. You forgot Obama added 20,000 when he took office. Bush and his republican allies committed military malpractice in both Afghanistan and Iraq and Obama has to fix both, like he is fixing the economy and health care (A + on both). Are you not aware that Gen. Jones, the Afghanistan ambassador (a Lt General in the US Army who led the war there) and Sec.Def Gates happen to agree with Obama's thoughtful and analytical approach to this unwinnable war? Now that we have wasted close to $2 trillion of Chinese borrowed dollars on both wars I am assured of a good political and military decision by Obama. I propose that all Americans, except those in the military, raise taxes on ourselves to pay for these wars and the warriors' health care on return. I would be delighted to pay a war tax to repay the Chineese the money that Bush borrowed. His borrowing and tax cuts and neglect of regulations led to the largest recession ever in America and has now put the unemplyment rate at over 10%. Obama has a lot to fix. It is obvious following the health care debate: Republicans = No, Obama = Know!

matthewficke420 - You make it sound like poor old Obama was forced into taking the job instead of campaigning very hard for it. The failure in Afghanistan ia not the commanders, they have not been given the assets they asked for because obama has turned it into a political issue and would rather have troops injured and lose a war than disappoint his liberal political base. Also the generals in the field serve at the pleasure of the President and congress, if he is dissatisfied with their leadership he can have them relieved. Obama's failure is that he does not lead by example.
Digest this for awhile it will keep you out of trouble.
Another Failed Presidency

An article from American Thinker by Geoffrey P. Hunt

Barack Obama is on track to have the most spectacularly failed presidency since Woodrow Wilson. In the modern era, we've seen several failed presidencies--led by Jimmy Carter and LBJ. Failed presidents have one strong common trait-- they are repudiated, in the vernacular, spat out.
Of course, LBJ wisely took the exit ramp early, avoiding a shove into oncoming traffic by his own party. Richard Nixon indeed resigned in disgrace, yet his reputation as a statesman has been partially restored by his triumphant overture to China.
But, Barack Obama is failing. Failing big. Failing fast. And failing everywhere: foreign policy, domestic initiatives, and most importantly, in forging connections with the American people. The incomparable Dorothy Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal put her finger on it: He is failing because he has no understanding of the American people, and may indeed loathe them. Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard says he is failing because he has lost control of his message, and is overexposed. Clarice Feldman of American Thinker produced a dispositive commentary showing that Obama is failing because fundamentally he is neither smart nor articulate; his intellectual dishonesty is conspicuous by its audacity and lack of shame.
But, there is something more seriously wrong: How could a new president riding in on a wave of precedented promise and goodwill have forfeited his tenure and become a lame duck in six months? His poll ratings are in free fall. In generic balloting, the Republicans have now seized a five point advantage. This truly is unbelievable. What's going on?
No narrative. Obama doesn't have a narrative. No, not a narrative about himself. He has a self-narrative, much of it fabricated, cleverly disguised or written by someone else. But this self-narrative is isolated and doesn't connect with us. He doesn't have an American narrative that draws upon the rest of us. All successful presidents have a narrative about the American character that intersects with their own where they display a command of history and reveal an authenticity at the core of their personality that resonates in a positive endearing way with the majority of Americans. We admire those presidents whose narratives not only touch our own, but who seem stronger, wiser, and smarter than we are.
Presidents we admire are inspirational peers, even those whose politics don't align exactly with our own: Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Harry Truman, Ike, and Reagan.
But not this president. It's not so much that he's a phony, knows nothing about economics, and is historically illiterate and woefully small minded for the size of the task--all contributory of course. It's that he's not one of us. And whatever he is, his profile is fuzzy and devoid of content, like a cardboard cutout made from delaminated corrugated paper.
Moreover, he doesn't command our respect and is unable to appeal to our own common sense. His notions of right and wrong are repugnant and how things work just don't add up. They are not existential. His descriptions of the world we live in don't make sense and don't correspond with our experience.
In the meantime, while we've been struggling to take a measurement of this man, he's dissed just about every one of us--financiers, energy producers, banks, insurance executives, police officers, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, post office workers, and anybody else who has a non-green job. Expect Obama to lament at his last press conference in 2012:
"For those of you I offended, I apologize. For those of you who were not offended, you just didn't give me enough time; if only I'd had a second term, I could have offended you too."
Mercifully, the Founders at the Constitutional Convention in 1787 devised a useful remedy for such a desperate state--staggered terms for both houses of the legislature and the executive. An equally abominable Congress can get voted out next year. With a new Congress, there's always hope of legislative gridlock until we vote for president again two short years after that.
Yes, small presidents do fail, Barack Obama among them. The coyotes howl but the wagon train keeps rolling along.
Margaret Thatcher: "The trouble with Socialism is, sooner or later you run out of other people's money."
"When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both." - James Dale Davidson, National Taxpayers Union
"The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." - Tacitus "A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own." -
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Who the hell is "nobama?!" Only a "NOmind" would use a disrespectful term for the office of President. What you are saying is that any democratically elected President should be "trashed". Do you not believe in the office of President of the United States of America? Do you not believe that we can have a civil difference of opinion and discourse in this great country? You are a disgrace to your fellow conservatives or what ever group you claim to be a party of.

Wow, after eight years, we finally have a strategy for a war. And here I thought the Mission was Accomplished...

OBAMMY CAN'T DECIDE....... SO MANY GREAT YOUNG MEN DIED!

carl22grant
8:14AM Nov 24th 2009

YOU LIE!!
President Obama signed the deployment order for 21,000 troops to deploy to Afghanistan, on 18 February 2009...troops that were requested in SEPTEMBER 2008, but Bush wouldn't do it, because he thought it might hurt John McPander's re-election chances. You people are either stupid, or gullible. You don't check anything, and you're always wrong. Obamna sent the troops requested in March, and now the generals want more? Were they wrong then, or are they wrong now? What's changed since last March when they got more troops? These generals are incompetent, and are trying to save their own skins, because they were yes men for the Bush administration, and told him everything he wanted to hear. Now that the crap has hit the fan, they hope to hang it on Obama ansd slip out the back door, like McKiernan did.

To S rogers you seem to have forgotten about who got us in this mess in the first place. George Bush will be the one that goes down in history as the worst president ever. Who else would be stupid enough to start two wars at the same time? You people need to quit rewriteing history just to get your stupid talking points across.

Right on!!OBama Pelosi and Levin will probably vacation to Paris for a seminar on how to SURRENDER, while Bin Laden is updating his plan to occupy the White house.

I agree. He is a slimey ACORN laywer that believes his south Chicago crap is good for all.