Republican Bush’s failure to wage the Afghanistan War correctly is the root of the problem. Bush provided to few troops and then misdirected the troops to early to fight in Republican Bush’s Iraq War Lie.

During Republican Bush’s Presidency the Taliban not only took over much of Southern Afghanistan, they metastasized into Pakistan.

But Republicans never take any responsibility for their failures and even Orwellianly pretend their failures are “successes”.

So when Republican President George Bush was on vacation a month before the 9/11 attacks, and received a very clearly worded warning that Osama bin Laden was going to attack the United States, he completely ignored it and remained on vacation.

And after the attacks, which were clearly staged out of Afghanistan and was manned primarily by Saudi Arabians, the Republicans immediately tried to figure out how to lie US into Iraq, despite it NEVER having anything to do with the attacks.

Republicans are a heck of a bunch of failures at their jobs.

He already was caught dozing while the Russians nabbed the Kyrgizstani air base SO vital to any plans for a US “surge” strategy in Afghanistan. –

The clueless Obama (and foreign-policy “expert” Biden) were the most vocal opponents of the Petraeus Surge strategy in Iraq, with Slow Joe coming-up with a harebrained plan to surrender and split the country 3-ways. If America had followed their advice then, Iraq would be an Al Qaida Caliphate by now.

Of course, the media is too preoccupied with articles on the Dear Leader’s puppy-vetting process and how he likes to play basketball to call him on these serious strategic errors… reality starting to hit hard now, though-

Shouldn’t the Repubs be criticizing anything less than 80,000?

40,000 was only one of three troop requests, recall.

President Obama is the Commander In Chief. Period.

Why do right wingers hate American democracy?

Beyond the right wing’s contempt for democratic elections is the right wing’s failures as military leaders.

Taking advice from Republican con-artists and frauds on military matters is beyond stupid.

Republicans FAILED in Afghanistan for years.

Republican Bush created a bigger mess in Afghanistan then he started with.

Obama is McChrystal’s commander.

Yeah. It’s a blessing – he had Alzheimer’s.

“BBQ – There are ways to beat Greg’s “smart moderation” here.”

If you’re referring to the *’s in my post…I hand typed them in. It gets the point across enough for me, I don’t feel the need to add underscores or something to show every letter.

Nice dancing on the head of a pin. Your comment above tells us how you really feel. That Republicans should make Afghanistan a political issue instead of contributing to the debate in a way that represents what is best for the American people.

It’s too late to take that one back. It is obvious that you subscribe to the same terrorist tactics as the rest of the Republican/Right Wing extremists.

Huh?

I’m assuming (wrongly?) that Obama will make the correct decision. Thereafter, of course it becomes a political calculation.

Politics over country. Heckuva job.

Condolences to her.

EXACTLY!

Ask a military officer for an answer and you’ll get a military answer, but if you ask a military officer for an answer to an inherently political question there’s no guarantee the military answer will be useful!