Comments on: Obama To Send More Troops To Afghanistan

By: Mohammad Waheed

Mohammad Waheed — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:30:09 +0000

I am a democrat and a United State Citizen. I voted for President Obama because a promised was made to end the war and bring home the troops. Well, that was then, now the promised is broken that is going to cost us $20-$40 billion.

By: upstatedweller

upstatedweller — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:31:45 +0000

Elmer has pretty well dominated this thread with logic and good sense. It never ceases to be a wonder how the good people oppose helping anyone within their own borders yet are eager, willing and supportive of sending other people to police a place on the other side of the world. All that money spent to kill non-Americans or non-Southerners if you’re a good South Carolinian is fine with them. They applaud all the money spent to pay for the deaths of people who have never even heard of South Carolina. All this talk of being more ruthless and believing in something so much that they are willing to sacrifice as many other people as it takes to do the job of invading foreign countries who have nothing. The good people aren’t worried about why there is a war. Usama is most likely dead, probably killed in Tora Bora. Why are they there? Don’t pretend to care about human rights when you’re willing to spend upwards of a trillion dollars to turn a country into a parking lot but you won’t spend a fraction of that amount on health care. If you’re willing to spend trillions on that, you are most concerned about the rights and profits of the defense contractors. What humanity?

By: James the Foot Soldier

James the Foot Soldier — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:53:44 +0000

Ooops, candidate obama painted president obama into that corner.

By: dakota fanning

dakota fanning — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:04:42 +0000

hmmmmmmm. 25,000 times the cost of one million dollars per each soldier per year it sounds like obama is just giving the military industrial complex a payoff of 25 billion extra dollars in profit to leave him alone on this issue. its certainly not as much as the obscene profiteering they made under the cheney/bush regime, but theyll just have to make do with the meager 25 billion. What’s so great about these fraudlent neo-colonial adventures is that instead of stealing the treasure and resources from the occupied peoples (afghanisan has absolutely nothing of profit except opium and war profiteering itself, LOL)-whereas the british at least invaded and colonized areas with resources which made their adventurism profitable via the conquered lands- modern American neo-colonial adventurism solely targets its very own national treasury to loot from.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:25:48 +0000

Courtney, bless you for raising a son with such character. Eight years ago before we went to war I raised the question of long term sustainability with many of my friends. Few had any concern and most Americans at that time supported these wars. Like VietNam the long slow steady drain has left its mark and now the voices begin to question “when” and “why” and “for how long”? So, do we like in VietNam negotiate a surrender? Do we now believe that we can “pick up our toys” and go home with no repercussions for failure to follow through? Since the conclusion of WWII, we as a nation have decided to fight “fair” wars. This means a minimalzation of collaterial damage, rules of engagement, winning hearts and minds, respecting ones religious beliefs etc. War is a contest in which one individual, country, nation beats the hell out of the other until the other can’t fight anymore. Much like Germany and Japan at the conclusion of WWII. THe war ended because they couldn’t fight anymore, not because we felt sorry for the collaterial damage or we worried about women and children. War means breaking things and killing people and shouldn’t be entered into lightly. OK, so now we’re there, what do we do? We instill enough fear into the people that they fear us more than they do the Taliban. We reward our friends and supporters and elimenate our enemies. All over the middle east we have issues, not due to the common ordinary citizen, but because of the religion. In the past, how did we deal with Islam? We didn’t play nice, we used the precepts of their religion against them. Can’t be fouled with pork? I’ll kill you with a bullet soaked in pork fat. Use a religious shrine as means of attack, I’ll elimenate the religious shrine. Use IED’s, I’ll reward your neighbor for turning you in before I level your home with your family inside. Until we are willing to be even more savage than they are..we’ll continue to lose our best. Thats the shame, we’re so busy worrying about the rights of others, we sacrifice the health and blood of our sons and daughters on the alter of humanity.

By: Skidmarks

Skidmarks — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:57:17 +0000

This is disheartening.

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By: COURTNEY

COURTNEY — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:47:56 +0000

and my son leaves on Dec. 31st for this awful place….I rest easy at night knowing that I did not vote for the fool in the White House but those easy nights are coming to an end…God forbid anything happen to my child and that fool tries to take advantage of a photo op at Dover Air Base….what is Obama thinking ????? We can’t possibly win this war unless we blow Afghanistan completely off the map followed by all of the other countries with the same mentality.

By: larrie

larrie — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:23:38 +0000

Afghanistan is not worth one more drop of American blood.

However, let’s not forget that sandwiched between Iraq and Afghanistan is a troublesome country called Iran.

I only hope that are troops are strategically placed to address/contain Iran.

By: Liberty For Me

Liberty For Me — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:11:53 +0000

Yeah….Elmer 2012!!!!….
Not really…Ron Paul