Afghan to wind down more rapidly?

[florida.bob]

Originally Posted by oz in SC

If we do not care about rebuilding the nation,establishing a government or defeating the Taliban,why has Obama sacrificed so many American lives?

Obama's tactics were to give the Afghanistan people a chance to create their own brand of Country. They are close to being able to do that. Time is getting right to get out of the way. The war on Al Qaeda will go toward surgical actions on the specific enemy. If the Afghan people let the Taliban back to power, that is their choice, not ours. At least now, they will have the means to prevent that. Whether or not we should have gone into the Nation building mode, there will always be argument for and against. Obama owns the fact that he did continue with the Bush initiative.

[Winter_Sucks]

I hope we do get our quicker. We killed bin laden, cut a deal with the Taliban and leave. Just make it very clear if there are any bases training or harboring terrorists that they will get some visits from our predator drones.

[oz in SC]

Originally Posted by florida.bob

Obama's tactics were to give the Afghanistan people a chance to create their own brand of Country. They are close to being able to do that. Time is getting right to get out of the way. The war on Al Qaeda will go toward surgical actions on the specific enemy. If the Afghan people let the Taliban back to power, that is their choice, not ours. At least now, they will have the means to prevent that. Whether or not we should have gone into the Nation building mode, there will always be argument for and against. Obama owns the fact that he did continue with the Bush initiative.

Obama then has the blood of those dead Americans on his hands....