Is Obama's Afghan strategy right?

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President Obama has announced a fundamental rethink of US strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Will it work?

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[Pawn Power]

Why do we make newbot post these inane questions? This question should really only be in the OI forum. Everyone else should be in agreement that US wars of aggression are never right.

[CHEtheLIBERATOR]

First what he is doing is imperialist on the political scale and on the military scale it's idiotic because using central force against guerilla's is playing into there hands

[Charles Xavier]

Newsbot idea is boring.

[Revy]

No, Obama is a war criminal, already.

A lot of ideologues out there have this dumb idea that Afghanistan attacked the U.S. on 9/11. Whenever I call out the war for what it is, it's always 9/11 that gets brought up.

Rational, factually-based arguments don't matter, they will not listen, even if they think of themselves as "anti-war", they think Afghanistan is "different" from Iraq.

[Mike Morin]

No, Obama is a war criminal, already.

A lot of ideologues out there have this dumb idea that Afghanistan attacked the U.S. on 9/11. Whenever I call out the war for what it is, it's always 9/11 that gets brought up.


No, the problem is that America has had it's calendar wrong. It was really 7/11...

I hear that there's a movement to make 7/11 a National Holiday.

What do you think we should call it?

A. National Capitalist Product Quality and Utility Day.
B. National Neighborhood Alternative to Food Day.
C. How Capitalism Rationally Allocates Resources Day.
D. National Vegas Appreciation Day.
E. Fireworks, Alcohol, and Tobacco Day.
F. All of the Above.
G. Other, any suggestions?


Peace,

Mike Morin
www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com (http://www.peoplesequityunion.blogspot.com/)

[ZeroNowhere]

No, Obama is a war criminal, already.

A lot of ideologues out there have this dumb idea that Afghanistan attacked the U.S. on 9/11. Whenever I call out the war for what it is, it's always 9/11 that gets brought up.
Um, weren't most of the 9/11 bombers... From the US' honourable ally Saudi Arabia?

[A New Era]

Um, weren't most of the 9/11 bombers... From the US' honourable ally Saudi Arabia?

Yeah, but 7 of the 19 hijackers were also found alive? Those who supposedly killed themselves on that day are alive and are very confused as to why they are blamed for this. How can someone explain that?

Here is one article, from the BBC:


Sunday, 23 September, 2001, 12:30 GMT 13:30 UK
Hijack 'suspects' alive and well

A man called Waleed Al Shehri says he left the US a year ago

Another of the men named by the FBI as a hijacker in the suicide attacks on Washington and New York has turned up alive and well.
The identities of four of the 19 suspects accused of having carried out the attacks are now in doubt.
Saudi Arabian pilot Waleed Al Shehri was one of five men that the FBI said had deliberately crashed American Airlines flight 11 into the World Trade Centre on 11 September.
His photograph was released, and has since appeared in newspapers and on television around the world.




FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged on Thursday that the identity of several of the suicide hijackers is in doubt.

More: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1559151.stm