Since American soldiers are doing the vast majority of the dirty work, their per-capita death rate is still 1-1/2 to two times that of their counterparts in Iraq.)

President Obama had better learn that being allergic to the word “victory” has serious consequences " and quickly.

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Joseph Curl at the Washington Times recites some of the “distractions” that are apparently keeping Obama from paying proper attention to Afghanistan and carrying out his primary role as Commander in Chief:
In the past month, the president has found the time to play golf " four times. He’s had links legend Arnold Palmer and other top golfers over to the White House. He’s shot some hoops with friends and yukked it up with hockey’s Pittsburgh Penguins.

He’s celebrated Ramadan at the White House, eulogized newsman Walter Cronkite in New York City, attended several fundraisers (including Thursday afternoon’s luncheon), appeared on David Letterman's . . .

. . late-night show (one of eight interviews), delivered two speeches to AFL-CIO rallies and dropped by the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial for a visit with his wife and daughters.

And the brief jaunt to Copenhagen to buttonhole members of the International Olympic Committee on behalf of Chicago’s 2016 Olympics bid was Mr. Obama’s seventh trip out of town since Sept. 1.

Yet still no decision on strategy for the war in Afghanistan.


The rest of the establishment press constantly bellyached about George W. Bush’s “vacations” in Crawford. No such general noise is present now.

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I love this... start a war and then complain when your soldiers die. What the hell did you think was going to happen? Best option is to just pull out instead of stubbornly carrying a war that no one wants and only brings heart ache.

Candidate Obama Repeatedly Said He Would Reinforce U.S. Troops in Afghanistan

Now, as commander-in-chief, however, Obama has thus far failed to heed the request of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, to send more troops to that country

With all due respect jmatts78, your comments suggest
to me that you're not very observant on the complicated issues involved in the aspects of the struggle with the
Islamists' determined to establish their Caliphate on the free world.

Best option is to just pull out instead of stubbornly carrying a war that no one wants and only brings heart ache.

Yep, cause it isn't like any of those radicals over there could ever touch us over here....