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Trapped In Afghanistan By Our Own Rhetoric

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Follow this link to the OpEd Piece in the New York Times by Barack Obama  about withdrawing our troops from Iraq.

A paragraph toward the end of the piece caught my attention:

As president, I would pursue a new strategy, and begin by providing at least two additional combat brigades to support our effort in Afghanistan. We need more troops, more helicopters, better intelligence-gathering and more nonmilitary assistance to accomplish the mission there.

Has he noticed how this is turning into the quagmire that finally defeated the Soviet Union? We can try more troops, but  be prepared with Plan B.

The constant primary campaign rhetoric that Iraq was the wrong war and Afghanistan was the right war might get us trapped into a hopeless situation.  I hope Obama is a lot smarter than he appeared to be when he helped the Democratic Party to bungle the handling of the recent FISA bill.

Hillary Clinton for President 12

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Note: See July 12 update at the bottom.

As a former strong supporter of Barack Obama, I am looking for a way to rectify his betrayal of this country on his vote for the FISA bill. For a Professor of US Constitutional law to vote the way that he did is unpardonable.

If this capitulation to the assault on the rule of law is an example of how Obama negotiates with adversaries, then I am extremely worried. If he can not hold his original position on the FISA bill when it was the correct policy, it was a winning electoral strategy, and the Democrats had the numbers to enforce it, what will he do if he finds himself in a weaker position on an issue?

The only thing that I can think of that can be done now is to urge the Democratic Nominating Convention to give the nomination to Hillary Clinton. McCain is not the only alternative to Obama.

Thank goodness this weakness of Obama came to light before we took the irretrievable step of actually nominating him as the Democratic candidate for President.

By the way, if Hillary is too much to contemplate, then how about Al Gore?

According to Barack Obama, “I’m asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington … I’m asking you to believe in yours.”

If we can no longer believe in Obama’s ability to bring change, we can still believe in our own. Let’s start a campaign to give the nomination to another candidate.

Here is a July 12 update. According to the Huffington Post a “New Group Wants To Overthrow Obama At Convention”. Follow this link to see the article. This is the very first I have heard about this. I am not a member of this group. I doubt very much that they got the idea from me.

Follow this link to see the ad that this group ran.  Follow this link to the Denver Group’s web site.

The following cartoon was suggested by Richard H.
Cartoon Suggested by Richard H.

Terrorism Fight Held Hostage by Republicans

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The Republicans seem so adamant that the new FISA bill before the Senate must have immunity for the telcos for their past crimes, that they are willing to see our intelligence agencies hamstrung unless they get their demands.

Why is telco immunity more important to Republicans than is our national security?

Why can’t the Democrats ask the Republicans why they would be willing to torpedo this bill if the telco’s cannot get immunity?

Why are the Democrats so bad at framing the issues?  Can they negotiate their way out of a paper bag?