Obama and Afghanistan

Frankly, Afghanistan is old news. The American people don't care, and when the media mentions it, Americans tune out. Since Afghanistan doesn't get ratings, media doesn't ask about it. Find a way to get Americans interested in Afghanistan again, and you'll see pressure put on the President.

What I kept hearing when Pres. Bush was in office were people crying every single day to bring the troops home; constantly they bashed Pres. Bush on this subject, and now with Pres. Obama, we don't hear a peep, no one is crying about it now. I don't get it. Why isn't Obama getting the third degree on this? Thanks

President Obama is treating the War like a game. You set a time and who ever is ahead when the time is up is the winner. He doesn't understand that to win means to defeat the enemy. You can't have victory or peace with out winning the war. The only peace comes from total victory.

There may well be a plan in place as well as defined goals. You just won't here about it. The liberal press and media aren't interested in military matters unless they can use them to bash conservatives and the conservative press and media won't talk about any of this because they can't have it looking like the adminstration might have a plan and goals. Pretty much boils down to the media and press either way one looks at it.

I think President Obama will have to stay the course that Bush set for a while. It would be unwise to take or make a big change in wars that have been going on for years. President Obama will have to study these wars and be advised on how to handle them, then make changes. Half of a year isn't a long time in any office. Unfortunely, the United States has major problems (ecomonic) to handle. If we can't get a handle on those issues we might have a war in our own country.

It depends on which Obama you're talking about. During the campaign, he excoriated Bush for not going after Osama Bin Laden and focusing more on Iraq. While I think some chiding was in order, it's obvious now that Obama had no intention of going after Bin Laden either. It was a classic bait and switch. As a matter of fact, Obama in his Cairo speech declared Bin Laden insignificant. Unfortunately, as much as I'd like to say he will have to own it if we don't achieve victory in Afghanistan, I think he'll still pin it on the Bush administration and every news story will be about how dumb, mean old Bush messed things up so bad that brilliant Obama couldn't untangle it. It's funny, but they call Bush a chimp, so does that mean Obama was outsmarted by a chimp?

Capturing Osama Bin Laden would be success, and I am assuming that that is what he thinks success is.

I think there are some success in that country. One is that they liberalize people. In some other terms is that more people aware now about freedom. Even there some points in that area cannot understand the basis of the government to provide progress. Some will be success. In Afghanistan, maybe not 20 years to liberalize people here due to there old laws and treaties. If those people and educate those new generations I think Afghanistan, will stable.

I think Obama ended up having to make the war in Afghanistan his war simply because he was so against the Iraq war and the reason that he gave for being against it. Iraq to Obama was taking America's "eye off of the ball" in the war on terror and going after The Taliban. Necessariliy Obama therefore had to focus on Afghanistan. Victory appears to be the destruction of The Taliban, which ultimately will probably never be achieved. The rural and underdeveloped nature of Afghanistan makes progress towards a stable democracy that much harder than in Iraq. Ultimately Afghanistan could end up being Obama's Vietnam. The fuss over healthcare and the economy has pushed the war in Afghanistan down the pecking order of priorities for the US government and the media will never call him on it. Never has a president enjoyed a fawning media quite like Obama.