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By: One Of These Things Is Not Like the Other...

One Of These Things Is Not Like the Other... — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:50:26 +0000

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By: 6512 and growing

6512 and growing — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:55:09 +0000

Such a relief to have a president you trust. I agree.

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:40:22 +0000

I don’t trust Obama. I think that his foreign policy is weak, naive and in many ways useless. I think that he is well intentioned and that he is trying to do the right thing. I hope that I am proven wrong on all accounts. It would make me very happy.

I am not a big Dubya supporter or basher of Obama. I think that we are dealing with problems that started decades ago and nothing is going to change over night.

I think that General Sherman was absolutely right, “Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.”

If you go to war then you unleash the gates of hell and destroy the enemy so that they are unwilling to continue fighting. If you can’t do that then you need to seriously consider what you intend to do.

IMO we are fighting a war of ideologies that requires force and diplomacy. But we haven’t figured out how to do so properly and telling the enemy when we intend to leave isn’t helping. What is the point.

If we are going to place our troops in harms way we need to do better by these guys than that.

By: Roshni

Roshni — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:40:13 +0000

I agree with you and I totally agree with GreenInOC. War is not the way to go but really, the President does not have much choice given the mess the last one left him with!

By: Ambrosia

Ambrosia — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:41:13 +0000

I don’t entirely agree with you. I don’t think very many people actually trusted Pres. Bush. I think we went to war in Iraq because the Senators and Congressmen (and women) did not want to look at the facts. They wanted to go with what was “popular” at the moment.

I also do not look at Pres. Bush as a demon who sought to tell lies to all of us for oil. Really, sold us for oil? I think he became overzealous in achieving his goals.

That does not mean I agreed on going to Iraq. I think Pres. Bush did not look at all the facts presented to him.

That was a ramble. Back to the main point.

This troop surge? Maybe it is necessary. Maybe not. However, Pres. Obama did state that Afghanistan was an important issue while campaigning. He is sticking to his promise. I admire that. As for trust? I am not sure.

I do not think faith is weak, as long as it isn’t placed in men. We have our follies. Too many, in fact.

P.S. This comment is not meant to be scathing. Much of it has a sarcastic lilt. I am glad you wrote this, it sparks discussion and critical thinking.

By: Alicia

Alicia — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:00:50 +0000

Very well said.

I was one of those people, like you, looking around in March 2003 and going, “Uh, what?” I remember being so scared at what was happening to the country then. It’s still scary now, but at least I don’t feel like I’m witnessing that scene in Dr. Strangelove where Peter Sellers is riding the bomb into the ground. Ugh.

By: GreenInOC

GreenInOC — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:06:06 +0000

I understand that this situation is really a lose-lose. I understand that the President is in a difficult position, to put it mildly.

I do think that this is the wrong decision. The history of the region seems to be so easily ignored. We, as any other country or empire from the past, will never “win” with guns and bombs.

Instead we need an overwhelming humanitarian and building effort and we need to build what the people want, not what we think is best for them. The Afghani people need to be employed in this effort.

If we are intent on being there then we need to give the Afghani people education and opportunity. We need to accept that not everyone around the world wants to live like us and appreciate the differences.

I’m glad I trust the President instead of not believing a word he utters as I did for 8 years, but that trust doesn’t make a bad decision better.

By: Lawyer Mama

Lawyer Mama — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:57:50 +0000

Erin – This is absolutely where I am now too. And where I was when we went into Iraq. I had to comment because Trey and I were discussing it last night and I remembered his comments as being very much how you remembered Aaron’s. He kept saying that the administration had more information than us and they couldn’t necessarily put sources in danger by revealing it all. I kept saying bullshit. Of course, now, Trey has a completely different memory of what he thought!

By: Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:33:01 +0000

I do trust Obama much more, although I don’t agree we should send more troops. I was never for the war in the first place, never trusted Bush and I could never imagine a sensible reason for attacking Iraq. While yes much of the country was all over that, there were lots and lots of us totally anti-war and anti-Bush.

Heard some interviews of the soldiers over there…one said he was glad there would be more to help protect the ones already there, but didn’t really think it would help the situation itself.

By: Queen of Spain

Queen of Spain — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:58:37 +0000

Aaron- we obviously have very different memories. In my memory of the situation you totally said to trust Bush. You said, in that hospital, we have to be behind our President and trust he knows better than we do. You were the only one in our house that was ‘for’ the war at the time. You changed over time…but in the beginning you were with the rest of the country. you were not the only one. I know this because I remember arguing about it and we disagreed. And I was floored you were for it.