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Obama's Iraq--Fearing Another Quagmire in Afghanistan
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by 158 | January 24, 2009 at 08:56 pm
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Obama is making the same
mistake as Bush made in Iraq.
Not willing to pull out and not
willing to send enough troops
to win.
Think Iraq was hard? Afghanistan, former Secretary of State Colin Powell argues, will be “much, much harder.”
“Iraq had a middle class,” Mr. Powell pointed out on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” a couple of hours before Mr. Obama was sworn in last Tuesday. “It was a fairly advanced country before Saddam Hussein drove it in the ground.” Afghanistan, on the other hand, “is still basically a tribal society, a lot of corruption; drugs are going to destroy that country if something isn’t done about it.”
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at 06:25 on January 25th, 2009
Afghanistan should have been our first stop. The detour has cost us dearly in many ways at many levels. It is still keeping us from getting back to the real issue. As you say, the mistake we made has now allowed the Taliban and Al Qaida to regroup in a country where they have ruled at war in the past.
at 09:55 on January 25th, 2009
I agree and that puts president Obama in a difficult position. Will he send 30,000 or send enough to defeat the Taliban.
And as you say more troops should have been sent and kept in Afghanistan years ago.