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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (533820)12/2/2009 12:47:55 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (2) of 1582923
 
What's your take on Afghanistan following the Obama speech? I still wish we'd get out, but I can't claim he didn't say he was going to do something like this during the campaign. I hoped it was just campaign talk.

I thought it was a fairly good speech. He wants to give the Afghans the honest shot Bush never gave them - it's not like they don't KNOW what the Taliban are like.

I think we need a permanent base in Aghanistan to be able to secure the nukes in N. Pakistan if needed, and we may need it for a long time. We could have done that by just being warlord of Kabul.

Obama is making several gutsy plays simultaneously. By 2012, he needs to be showing progress on jobs, the economy and Afghanistan, as well as handling anything that arises, or he's history.
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