Watch the speech here. Here’s a transcript.
Does he want to pull out too fast? Too slow? Just right? Discuss.
President Obama charted a middle course Wednesday for ending the U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan, outlining a departure plan that will remove troops faster than his commanders had requested but more slowly than many of his political allies would like.
In a prime-time address from the White House, Obama said he will bring home 10,000 U.S. troops by the end of the year and 23,000 more by next summer, a withdrawal window that will conclude two months before voters decide whether to give him a second term. The first troops will leave Afghanistan next month.
What did the Republican candidates think?
I believe, deowll, if we leave we won’t be betraying anyone.
We came in and got rid of the Taliban, established a government that’s heads and shoulders better than what they had, rebuilt their economy, etc.
Now the question is, do the Afghan people want these benefits enough to fight for them? The Taliban would NEVER be able to get a toehold in Afghanistan if the people fought to keep them out.
It’s now up to the Afghans.
Progress! Pulling out of Bush’s 2nd war and trillion dollar shithole. I suppose unemployment will go up by that much, which naturally the sheeple won;t be able to put two and two together.
pedro, please excuse Fusion. He’s a moron.
#20 I believe is better that they feel betrayed because the US leaves than really feel betrayed because the US didn’t show up.
#22 Dallas, you have something on your lip. It might be from whomever you were sucking up to. Let me know when he pulls from the war that Dumbya started in Libya.
And stop referring to yourself in third person.
#24 What war in Libya?
#25 I’ll leave some time for someone else to rip you a new one with the not war before I do it.
The problem with all these wars is how we go in so light handedly and tippy toe around so gently. Nukes are just a tool and much cheaper than 100K troops and everything it takes to support them. “shock and awe” my ass – a few hundred megatons will create some shock and awe ( in a much more economical manner as well.)
Ok, I’ll follow up.
Definition of WAR
(1) a state of usually open and declared armed hostile conflict between states or nations.
2: a state of hostility, conflict, or antagonism: a struggle or competition between opposing forces or for a particular end.
(Sounds like Libya??)
3: Idiot, see Dallas.
Here is the best explanation of why we are in Libya!
“During his eight years in office, George Bush had ordered 45 drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal areas. In his less than three years in office, Obama, who is the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, has ordered more than two hundred. Kicking off his presidency, he ordered two drone strikes right on his third day in the White House. One of them killed a pro-government tribal elder and his extended family in Fata, including minor children. …
On June 12, speaking over Progressive Radio’s News Hour, McKinney said she witnessed non-military sites, such as hospitals, schools and homes bombed, which caused innumerable civilian casualties. Is destroying hospitals and universities part of the “humanitarian intervention” that the Nato forces have launched in Libya?
Evidently, the first phase of the invasion is to completely decimate Libya’s infrastructure, because only then could the second phase begin—the phase of the country’s reconstruction by Western companies, with the use of Libyan oil money. What we witness in Libya is a replay of the invasion of Iraq, minus the hoax of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction.”
http://thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrintDetail.aspx?ID=54097&Cat=9&dt=6/23/2011
YES! That’s it! Bomb the crap out of Libya and make them pay for the reconstruction!
Maybe Obama will get another peace prize…
#26 No troops, no guns, no war. I also surveyed most all the hot military boys at DFW where they were going. Nobody was heading to Libya. Stop watching Fox News.
We are not at war with Libya. We have never been at war with Libya.
Bush got a 70% approval for getting us IN TO this needless, bloody mess.
Obama should be getting a 90% approval rating from a grateful and relieved nation for getting us OUT of this quagmire.
Instead, he gets bickered to pieces by BOTH sides of the aisle.
We are not at war with West Libya, we are not at war with East Libya. We have always not been at war with East Libya.
Wow, the liberal stupidity on this blog is getting tiresome.
Fusion is a Moron.
Dallas is an idiot, and now
GregAllen is an imbecile.
For example:
“Obama should be getting a 90% approval rating … for getting us OUT of this quagmire.”
What an imbecilic thing to say.
First, Obama is simply withdrawing the troops HE PUT IN. No net change from when Bush was in charge. No real reduction AT ALL.
Second, did his “Surge” accomplish anything?
“In the 18 months Obama has been president, 557 Americans have died. That compares to 655 U.S. deaths in the eight years of the Bush administration. Compared another way, an average of 6.8 deaths occurred per month during the Bush years; the monthly average during Obama’s tenure is 30.9, more than four times higher.”
So, yes. Obama did accomplish having more good Americans die.
http://lakelandtimes.com/main.asp?SectionID=9&
Second, Obama is bombing the crap out of Libya for what reason?? See #28 above.
Third, he is only following Bush’s timeline!
http://politicsdaily.com/2009/12/03/afghanistan-the-obama-bush-exit-strategy/SubSectionID=9&ArticleID=11703
I don’t know which is more tiring, Obama and his corrupt dictatorial ways, or the Morons, Idiots, and Imbeciles who follow him.
#33 The surge avoided a Martian invasion. DO you see any Martians around? No.
#34 You’re right. I see nothing. Only a fistful of sheeple like you babbling incoherences about Afghanistan & Libya all the while licking Obama’s boots clean as a whistle. Kudos for being such a good pet of your master.
#35 You simpletons need to have things explained in simple terms so you jay go away.
#36 There are no simple term to explain your lunacy. Like macfans, all your messiah does is great, specially when he’s actually crapping out like with Afghanistan, Libya, the economy, the border.
But if you can find simple word to explain your stupidity, be my guest.
Like I said, Dallas is an idiot. See #34 for proof.
I have come to the inescapable conclusion that the vast majority of Liberals are Morons, Idiots, and Imbeciles.
The rest of the Liberals are those who take advantage of said Morons, Idiots, and Imbeciles for their political and economic advantage.
#38 Your ‘inescapable conclusions’ are a result of you living in an inescapable garden full of Fox News TV’s and Christian Taliban monks.
Surge my ass. I bet we arent even up to 1 million enemy casulties yet. Let’s get moving here.Get ‘em all dead and get home. We need the money here to build more freeway lanes.