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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: manalagi who wrote (58820)	7/17/2009 4:09:48 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

I sense some frustration in you and it is not unfounded. What Obama is doing now is what Bush should have done in 2003 viz. sent US troops into Afghanistan instead of Iraq. If he did so then, maybe US would not be as unpopular. Obama is fighting the war the way Clinton did viz. use drones in Pakistan and have ground troops in Afghanistan. There is also something significant happening in India and Pakistan. While Hillary is on a visit to those countries, India and Pakistan are getting together for talks to combat terrorism in their respective countries. On the economy, Obama is restoring the controls that we had in the 80's and 90's while at the same time taxing the rich who benefited from the looting that went on for the past 8 years. I hope he can get to companies like Halliburton etc.

To: manalagi who wrote (58820)	7/19/2009 7:06:46 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

The goal is to stabilize the country so it won't become a Taliban training ground. Whether we can actually do this is an open question. The theory is that we if we provide the villagers enough security they will disown the Taliban. But we also have to deal with the question of where their income is going to come from if we don't let them grow opium poppies. This is much like the problem we faced in Columbia with the threat to the government from the Drug Cartels controlling the peasants in the jungle who grew coke for their labs--except the Taliban presents its world view in religious terms as well as economic terms. In Columbia we were able to turn the situation around.