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Obama under pressure on Afghan strategy

The US president has returned to Washington amid growing pressure to announce a new US strategy in Afghanistan.

Barack Obama calls his protracted policymaking process "careful deliberation", but politicians and the media are growing impatient, with some of his harshest critics calling him "indecisive".

Despite the pressure, the White House says no decision on Afghanistan is expected until at least late November.

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Yes, they should fight until every last Talibani is dead
(41) 51.25%
No, there's no realistic chance of winning
(39) 48.75%
 
Total Votes 80
Expiration Date 11/23/2009

Added: Nov-20-2009 Occurred On: Nov-20-2009
By: ChockFullOfNuts
In: Afghanistan, News, Middle East
Tags: Obama, pressure, Afghan strategy, Afghanistan, protracted policymaking, White House, Washington, decision
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  • What a great leader worries about money when our young people are in harms way but not when Wall Street need some extra cash. He calls himself a Democrat but he's really a Chicago Thug.

    Posted Nov-20-2009 By 
    billwmo (12.36)

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  • If US and allies leave, talibs will declare win and uneducated Afghans will follow the winner. It will be human rights disaster.

    Posted Nov-20-2009 By 
    fm2ic (103.32)  

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  • ya poor Obama...

    Such a difficult decision to make, support your military and give them what they ask for.

    Or leave them hanging and without a definitive objective and course of action.

    Miserable fucking failure is a compliment for Obama at this stage.

    Posted Nov-20-2009 By 
    AwsomeSauce (745.08)  
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  • Wasn't getting troops out of Iraq by end of 2009 and winning in Afghanistan and getting Osama another bunch of those Obama Promises.

    Posted Nov-20-2009 By 
    ubdumb (9070.56)

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  • My thought is to bring home the troops. We need them to also protect our country and our borders and to also weed out the terror cells that are here in America.

    Posted Nov-20-2009 By 
    abby102 (38.62)

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  • 80,000 more troops NOW. This shows how inept Obama is on just about everything he has done as "President"...

    Posted Nov-20-2009 By 
    T_Bone69 (476.86)  

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  • as far as 'winning' goes...the whiners were saying the same thing about iraq...it couldnt be done.

    let's be perfectly honest, we all know the truth.

    The ONLY thing that can defeat the American Military, are American voters.

    OUr enemies had better thank god our people are so fucking nice otherwise we would own this rock and everything on it.

    And we all know it.

    Posted Nov-20-2009 By 
    AwsomeSauce (745.08)  
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  • What is clear is that Afghanistan is BHO's war now, and he and his administration is clearly failing to win the war.

    Posted Nov-20-2009 By 
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  • How can someone who knows nothing about the military come up with a strategy, thats why he is taking so long. Empty suit is showing his true colors. When you have no experience at anything it's hard to make decisions. He couldn't run a lemonade stand on a street corner. How pathetic this Bogus Potus is. Commander in Thief.

    Posted Nov-20-2009 By 
    klm123 (185.76)  

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  • If he pulls our troops out, victory for AQ and the Tali's. This is what Cliton did in Somalia. He pulled our troops out and AQ got its strongest push in their history. bin Laden knew at that point if you spilled the blood of American soldiers on a foreign battlefield the Liberals and demolosers would turn tail and run like the yellow bellied losers that they are. It was at that point that bin Laden got his victory. He has said he will win this war and we will lose. With the indecisive, empty sui More..

    Posted Nov-20-2009 By 
    klm123 (185.76)  

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  • Obama doesnt want to pull out. It's obvious. He's stalling.

    America, you were lied to.

    Posted Nov-20-2009 By 
    youtubesux (273.22)  

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    • The objective is to destroy the Taliban and their ideals, and to give the elected government in Afghanistan a fighting chance. The Russians fought the muj 1979-1989, then simply dumped the entire country like a bad habit. Years of chaos ensued, and the Taliban and Bin Laden were the result. Our only objective is a friendly or at least non-hostile ally that won't ever harbor the Al Quaeda ever, ever again. This is not Vietnam, not only is it one country, there are no jungles (i mean RAIN FORE More..

      Posted Nov-20-2009 By 
      Fine_Just_Fine (2049.52)  

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    • What kind of bullet do you destroy someone's ideals with?

      Posted Nov-20-2009 By 
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    • I am nothing if not a student of history, i have studied it all from the beginning since it involves us Americans too intimately, game on 9/11, after all. The taliban were simply the bully boys that filled the void in between Russian pullout due to extreme uselenssness (1989) and harboring of Bin Laden and the Al Quaeda (2001). To go along with the line, since there's little more, Bin Laden sought refuge for his terrorist activities in Sudan after the Soviet war until US pressure (Clinton era) More..

      Posted Nov-20-2009 By 
      Fine_Just_Fine (2049.52)  

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    • Seemed you missed out the fact that we funded and armed the Afghans with their war against Russia. Not only that but we funded a proxy war by arming Iraq with their war against Iran. Bin Laden actually met with the Saudi royal family and wanted to fight against Iraq when they invaded Kuwait. He believed it was a muslim problem not America's. They declined his offer which triggered his hatred against the west. Makes you wonder how many of the weapons we gave the Afghans and Iraqi's are now killin More..

      Posted Nov-20-2009 By 
      hlabrake (678.94)

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    • Yes i know the story. Bin Laden was granted an audience within the Kingdom and offered to put his fighters on point (and they ought to have let him do it since it might have saved us lots of problems.) The ruling class saw him as a loose cannon and politely dismissed his entreaty. Damnit.

      Posted Nov-24-2009 By 
      Fine_Just_Fine (2049.52)  

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  • He has to wait and see what ACORN thinks about it first, before he can make any decisions.

    Posted Nov-20-2009 By 
    souljah45 (4281.36)  

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  • Once we started nation building we fell away fom our goal which was to go after those responsible for 9/11. Americans wanted war not wasted money and lives protecting those who didnt help themselves. Pull our troops out, what they do from there is their problem not ours.

    Posted Nov-20-2009 By 
    hlabrake (678.94)

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    • America went into the ME to get those responsible for 9/11?
      Weren't most of them Saudis.
      Shit, sounds like the military need to buy a world atlas

      Posted Nov-20-2009 By 
      24038462 (2053.44)  

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  • Obama is just gonna sit around with his thumb up his ass, that way more US soldiers die.

    Posted Nov-20-2009 By 
    FTW420 (1103.80)  

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  • In your poll you left out.

    "No matter what he does, he will be vilified by his detractors."

    Posted Nov-20-2009 By 
    bardville (414.20)

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