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Karl Rove has written an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal where he praises President Obama’s decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.
From the Wall Street Journal:
President Barack Obama’s speech on Tuesday night deserves to be cheered. Over the objections of his vice president and despite opposition from his political base, the president is sending an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan to fight terrorists.
Why wouldn’t Rove approve of a troop escalation in Afghanistan? It’s a continuation of the Bush administration’s failed foreign policy.
Sending more troops to Afghanistan is what I would have expected John McCain to do if he was elected president. In fact, McCain supports Obama’s surge in Afghanistan. The only thing he disagrees with Obama on is putting a timetable on Afghanistan. Obama announced that he plans on bringing troops home from Afghanistan in July 2011. If that’s McCain’s only objection, I don’t think he has anything to worry about. I remember Barack Obama stating that if he was elected president, he would begin bringing back one to two combat brigades a month back from Iraq. So far, that has not happened.
Doing what Karl Rove thinks is correct is not the type of Change I was looking for.
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Lee B.
/ December 3, 2009I say it frequently- there is no honor among politicians at the federal level, regardless of party. My heart breaks a bit for today’s military- and I was in it for 10 years- given our warped policies and the “causes” that our folks are dying for.
Hope and change was pretty much an empty slogan, in my book. Now I just hope that the changes being rammed down our national throat don’t doom our country. We’re already morphing into something that is not reflected by the constitution. Different administration, same bizarre loads of shit heaped on the American citizenry and waste and abuse of our military.
Chinese bankers and military leaders have to be smiling from ear to ear these days.