Many of are frightened by the similarities we see between our Afghanistan War and the Vietnam War. And many of us were totally disappointed by The President's plan for "withdrawal" from Iraq, which is no different from that required by the Status of Forces Agreement negotiated by President Bush.
President Obama addressed the threat of Al Qaeda as the primary focus of his Afghanistan strategy. He downplays the fear card. But I see his strategies for Iraq and Afghanistan being directly related to his efforts to deal with the potential for nuclear weapons in Iran and the real nukes in Pakistan. The presence of large US military contingents in Iran and Afghanistan flanks Iran East and West and, with India, flanks Pakistan.
Our civilian agenda for Pakistan will give us freer access to the Pakistani countryside and people and will increase our ability to collect intelligence and act on it there. By the way, it's Pakistan where Al Qaeda now resides, not Afghanistan.
Don
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