Obama 'Has Information He Needs' On Troops Decision

It's time to leave. Afghans didn't hit the towers and OBL is either dead or gone.

"Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public’s sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties, even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization."

"The momentum of Asia’s economic development is already generating massive pressures for the exploration and exploitation of new sources of energy and the Central Asian region and the Caspian Sea basin are known to contain reserves of natural gas and oil that dwarf those of Kuwait, the Gulf of Mexico, or the North Sea."

- Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard, 1997

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/the-gas-must-flow/

President Barack Obama is expected to address the nation Tuesday on his new Afghanistan policy.......
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If the President is going to ask for 34K, just ask for the damn 40K and be done with it. Clearly there is no intent on quitting this war.

Finally Obama is brave enough to take on the powerful hippy-peacenick lobby and boldly chooses more war, more drones, more assassinations!

Those of us who supported the president when he was a candidate were well aware of his focus on Afghanistan. So his decision to increase troop levels should not come as a surprise--period. That said, i believe he was wrong then and he is wrong Today. He is making a dangerous mistaking by putting all the focus on Afghanistan and ignoring rising extremist activities in Yemen and North Africa.

Yeah, let's spend another few hundred billion more making more enemies and terrorists. We truly never learn.

Who will be the last troop killed for this mistake?

How many trillions can we waste on 2 useless wars while 120 of our people die every single day from lack of healthcare? We have no shame that over a hundred of our fellow citizens die needlessly every day. Every 3 months, its another 9/11's worth of dead uninsured people. We shrug our shoulders.

We've spent trillions avenging the 3,500 9/11 victims, but won't spend 10 billion a year covering the 352,000 dead from lack of healthcare since 2001. We're truly a bloodthirsty, warmongering people with little in the way of morals.