President Obama will be increasing troop levels in Afghistan on Wednesday December 2. There will be a protest with Worcester Peaceworks and PDGW. Lincoln Square 4:30pm.
We will lose the war in Afghanistan. Every human being who is dying for this cause is dying in vain. England and Russia learned this lesson a long time ago. You would think....Never mind.
Suffice to say, I don't receive half the information Obama receives. I don't read all of (or any of) the Presidential Daily Briefings that are placed on his desk every morning. Maybe he knows something that I don't. I am not doubting that as a distinct possibility. But from where I sit it would seem to me that this president has failed to learn the historical lessons taught to us by the administrations of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Lyndon Baines Johnson - lessons involving bold action in times of economic crisis, and the utter folly of trying to win wars that cannot be won.
I want to believe in this guy but the sad fact of the matter is that I am quickly losing confidence in my president. Where the heck is all this change I could believe in? Are the Republicans still in charge? What gives?
I emailed President Obama at the 11th hour, just before the day he announced his decision to deploy the troops he promised to deploy in Afghanistan during his election campaign. It was, therefore, not such a great surprise that he did what he said he was going to do; yet, it was, somehow, a suprise, nonetheless.
I believe that there is a hope, that in the hands of THIS president, these troops' lives will NOT be given in vain. But that is just a hope.
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ReplyDeleteWe will lose the war in Afghanistan. Every human being who is dying for this cause is dying in vain. England and Russia learned this lesson a long time ago. You would think....Never mind.
Suffice to say, I don't receive half the information Obama receives. I don't read all of (or any of) the Presidential Daily Briefings that are placed on his desk every morning. Maybe he knows something that I don't. I am not doubting that as a distinct possibility. But from where I sit it would seem to me that this president has failed to learn the historical lessons taught to us by the administrations of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Lyndon Baines Johnson - lessons involving bold action in times of economic crisis, and the utter folly of trying to win wars that cannot be won.
I want to believe in this guy but the sad fact of the matter is that I am quickly losing confidence in my president. Where the heck is all this change I could believe in? Are the Republicans still in charge? What gives?
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Tom Degan
I emailed President Obama at the 11th hour, just before the day he announced his decision to deploy the troops he promised to deploy in Afghanistan during his election campaign. It was, therefore, not such a great surprise that he did what he said he was going to do; yet, it was, somehow, a suprise, nonetheless.
ReplyDeleteI believe that there is a hope, that in the hands of THIS president, these troops' lives will NOT be given in vain. But that is just a hope.
Paul L.