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Hi Dig,

I've always believed that Obama boxed himself in wrt Afghanistan.
In order to be opposed to Iraq & NOT look like a wimp, he talked tough-er on 'A.'

The Russians proved fighting in that terrain, sucks your economy dry & its impossible to 'win'.
Yet, Obama needed to put his mark down & he did so despite history....(I don't give him high marks for that!)
Yet, without being tough in some foreign area, he might have lost....
Its as if he had to feed the 'beast'.




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Re: The World We�re Actually Living In
By: DigSpace
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Mon, 01 Oct 12 10:09 PM
Msg. 10470 of 54959

clo, replace the word clear with transient.

As Pres Nixon said at one time when asked about him verus Kennedy and Johnson and Viet Nam and what he would have done ...

Nixon said, in effect, I'm not sure what I would have done, but unlike them, I would have had a choice.

A clear blatant recognition that Democrats have to prove the "toughness" chops everyday, and Republicans can actually do what they think is best.

Obama shouldn't have "surged" Afghanistan, or maybe he should have, but he didn't have a choice. He's a Democrat.


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