Lyndon Johnson II?
Last month I argued against Obama’s emerging broke-ass Afghanistan policy. It looks like he is going forward with an escalation of 17,000 additional US soldiers. This, is in the face of our increasingly strangled and expensive supply lines.
And as I argued before, if we are dead set on an Afghanistan escalation (that we will eventually lose), we need to first complete the exit from Iraq. What could possibly go wrong? How about the existing tensions between the Kurds and Arabs in Northern Iraq flaring up into a full-on war? And it sure doesn’t help matters when our tactics involve the accidental, but continual slaughter of civilians from aerial bombardment - instead of winning hearts and minds, you need to pick them up from around the target.
Obama has been variously compared to JFK and Lincoln. Could we in fact be looking at the Reincarnation of LBJ?
Sad, really.
Stumble it!
Tags: afghanistan, civilian deaths, Iraq, Kurdistan, Lyndon Johnson, Obama
February 24th, 2009 at 7:28 am
…plus, we’re conducting a secret >war with Iran and a not-so-secret war with Pakistan…for a total of FOUR wars being carried on simultaneously.
(Yet we can’t afford universal health care….I wonder why!)
March 9th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
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