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

To: stockman_scott who wrote (66596)	12/13/2009 11:29:46 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 149317

AfPak war is Obama's political Waterloo similar to Crater's was with the failed Iranian rescue attempt. Obama is certainly very knowledgeable in world history and it is really disappointing to see that he got caught in the web of failed American thinking based on the precept that this nation is still militarily mighty. Nobody has won in Afghanistan and US never will. I am not rooting for failure but instead letting my opinion be guided by the lessons of history. ======================================= A Top Democrat, Remembering Vietnam, Is Challenging Obama on Afghanistan Posted: 12/13/09 House Appropriations Committee chairman David Obey has already highlighted the cost of President Obama's planned buildup of U.S. troops in Afghanistan by proposing a "war surtax" to pay for it, and when administration officials go to Capitol Hill to testify on Obama's strategy, they will likely face some uncomfortable questions, the New York Times reports today. "I came here in '69, and I determined that I would give Nixon a year to see what he could do (about the war in Vietnam) , because he had inherited the war, so I bit my tongue for a year," Mr. Obey told the Times, saying he had reminded Obama in a phone call of the mistakes of that earlier war. "I said the same thing with Obama." While Obey's proposed war surtax is unlikely to pass, the Times says it is reminding the nation "of the high cost of an increasingly unpopular war." But the questions about Obama's plan, and a full airing of the cost issue may arise this week when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates appear before the appropriations committee. politicsdaily.com