Tmw, Barack will deliver a 'major' speech about Iraq and Afghanistan...any guesses?

My fellow Americans, the surge's military progress is the result of the fantastic efforts of our wonderful men and women, whose sacrifice was made necessary by the largest foreign policy blunder in the history of the republic
That military progress, while measurable, and laudable, has not been completely matched by the political leaders in Iraq
Never the less Iraqi leaders have asked for what I have been urging as a presidential candidate for years, a timetable for withdrawal, something Mr. McCain, continuing in the poor judgment of this administration, still withholds his consent from - this practical, safe, and man sparing measure, in extending needlessly, an effort which drew our eye from the ball, Afghanistan, where the war really is.

The death of 9 men today in Afghanistan is iconic of this administration's failure to stay on course in the war on terror. As president I assure you we will bring that war to a sucessful close as we remove men with all speed from the blunder of Iraq.



YADDA..................................................
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The awful reality?

"I think we are in a war against Islamic extremism, and I think that war is worldwide" John McCain

It is past naive to think for an instant that this war is to 'get' those few responsible for 9/11. Those few have pointed us to the problem...Jihadism, and what some scholars feel is the Quran itself at the heart of this worldwide aggression. If wars were conducted as individual revenge programs with some rough and 'proportional' 'justice' in mind, well, we could have called off the War in the Pacific on April 18, 1943 when we murdered Isoroku Yamamoto via long range interception of what we knew for a fact to be his airplane by an entire squadron of P-38's. But we did not because an entire structure had to be destroyed, as it is today.

This war is in Afghanistan, as it is in Iraq, in the Phillipines, Thailand, Indonesia, Somalia, etc and by other means as well, by and large, so far in Australia, Britain, France, etc and right here.

The effort to market this war as some easier and safer alternative limited to an area from Qandahar to Mazar-e- Sharif to Kabul, and restricted to police investigation elsewhere can have ONLY ONE RESULT - AS IT HAS ALREADY.