Posted by julian on Feb 16, 2010 in
Politics
President Obama, in order to show your opposition you are in agreement on some things, I believe you have chosen the wrong cause for appeasement. I believe you could rout the Republican Party by announcing holus bolus America is getting out of Iraq and Afghanistan within eighteen months. Too many lives and too much cost [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Haiti, Iraq, Muslims, Obama, Republicans
Posted by julian on Dec 15, 2009 in
Politics
Hey Mr President, you’ve caved in again! This time it is to your good “buddies” such as that angry, hobbling short-ass opponent in the last election, John “you’ve done it again” McCain, the defense contractor lobbyists and the Pentagon. You can pay a Blackwater mercenary a hundred grand or so to fart around in Afghanistan [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Blackwater, Bush, Cheney, Iraq, Obama, Pentagon, terrorism
Posted by julian on Nov 24, 2009 in
Politics
We are wasting huge resources, especially American lives, maintaining a military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Middle East has been a basket case since the fall of the Ottoman Empire nearly 100 years ago. The States could remain in the region for the next five hundred years and still achieve nothing. Every country of [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Cold War, Iraq, Middle East, Muslim, Obama, Pakistan, Taliban
Posted by julian on Nov 16, 2009 in
Politics
There is no question the two wars we are engaged in are taking a huge toll upon our resources not only in monetary costs but worse still in human terms. Just as was the case with Vietnam, our soldiers so often cannot determine friend from foe in Afghanistan and Iraq. As they enter a village, [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, China, Iraq, Obama, Russia, Taliban, Vietnam, war