Never in the history of man kind (at least according to my government education), has the leader of a nation, the ruler of a sect of people, ever given a time for the end of a conflict.
Our President has truly made history. In his speech to the nation (given to a less then enthusiastic West Point audience) stated that he was going to grant General McCrystal the 30,000 troops he had requested. Of course we all know that the General had suggested that we need 40,000 more troops.
I don’t know or understand why our President has not given General McCrystal the entire sum, nor can I rap my mind around his statement of troop withdrawal in a given time line (18 months is his time line), when the enemy has made it clear that they are willing to fight this fight for as long as it takes. Does our President not understand the importance of not giving away your plans to the enemy? Should we give them information concerning each attack so they can ready them selves? Does our President not know that we have been fighting this war (as an undeclared war) for many years prior to September 11th ?
Our nation has here and now a leader like never before.
Our President doesn't understand that we have returned to being a paper tiger, this is what they found out after we left Somalia. This is what a pacifist President does to a country when we are faced with a world of people who want to destroy us.
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Because the war isn't in his agenda.
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