Obama and Iraq

The New York Times: Interesting article by Senator Obama on his policy in Iraq. On the one hand he sees the success in Iraq but still wants to take the troops out based on a timetable and then wants to send them to Afghanistan. That a problem when you have a good politician but young, he makes this kind of mistakes, he wants to send more troops and Afghanistan, does he read the news in between watching the Polls. Obama writes the following, " We should seize this moment to begin the phased redeployment of combat troops that I have long advocated,........I would pursue a new strategy, and begin by providing at least two additional combat brigades to support our effort in Afghanistan. We need more troops, more helicopters, better intelligence-gathering and more nonmilitary assistance to accomplish the mission there..." Afghanistan can never be won with more troops, its a long low level War, the trick is not to lose troops, its not to be all macho and send in more troops, the West cant win that kind of war, the USSR who did not play by Western Rules got their backside hit all the way back to the border. Obama has been caught in between the base and Moderate Republicans and Independents. The Elite Media has given him a free ride on the whole, minus is Pastor problem, Obama has to decided does he want to win or keep his base happy, Iraq could be a good issue for him but he has to change policy or it will be Senator McCain who will be the 44th POTUS.