Gen. David Petraeus' Strategy for Afghanistan: It Works

Obama has so many irons in the fire right now. And he has a party partly corrupted by corporations and the other party is a subsidiary of the corporations. FDR faced the same but not as bad becasue the there was more unemployment until the War came. He's learning on the job but the last guy did too and look what we got, two wars, unfunded tax cuts that made the debt larger, and a broken economy. This is an accumulation of 16 years of Republican Congresses and Clinton, a neoliberl Republican, who bought into the phony free market ideology of ship jobs out so that you can lower wages and kill unions and the middle class.

Let them grow hemp and turn it into ethanol fuel. That would change their paradigm of drugs and violence. Counterinsurgency didn't work in Vietnam without a strong government. Democracy comes from within and can't be instilled from without by an army or corporations who have their interests at heart not the civilians of that country.

Here's hoping that our policy in Afghanistan works. So many young, brave lives at stake.

You bashers are a joke, do you honestly think Petraeus would of took the job if he didn't think Obama was qualified. If Obama came up with all the answers to our problems the bashers would still bash him. How typical ....

As Obama got rid of McChrystal and replaces him with General Petreus, does one remember when the likes of Pelosi, Reid and other liberal Democrats, during the Iraq war which they said we lost, called Petreus BETRAYUS? When McChrystal was dedicating his life to the military, Obama was a community organizer working with corrupt Acorn, so who should be running this war, McChrystal or Obama and his citizen advisors who know nothing about running a war..NOTHING!

"The aging warlord and district governor with whom the team worked was assassinated" because of Obama meddling. There simply are not enough troops in Afghanistan to win. The reason why there are not enough troops is because of Obama plays politics. If Obama was competent, McChrystal would not have had the complaints.

More and more I have a problem with our fighting in Afghanistan. Karzai is not taking responsibility for his country and is leaving it to the US military men and women to fight his war. His army and police dont want to take on the insurgents because when the US finally gives up and leaves, they dont want to face the consequences. I say once and for all we tell Karzai, okay you got 6 months then we are gone.