Tuesday, August 25, 2009

The USA in Afghanistan

The New York Times: Reports on the latest US deaths in Afghanistan; four soldiers died on Tuesday; the NYT writes the following, " making the 2009 death toll for foreign forces in Afghanistan the highest since the war began nearly eight years ago. " Since 2001 as noted by icasualties.org the USA has lost 802 of its Armed Forces Personnel in Afghanistan, this year alone the USA has lost 172 of its soldiers. The Obama Administration has about a year to turn Afghanistan around, if within the next 12 to 18 months the landscape is the same the Liberal Left in Congress will get cold feet, they will want to pull out of Afghanistan, the calls are there already, even the Liberal New York Times has started to build the ground work for pulling out. This is the Just War that Obama wanted to fight in the 2008 Presidential Race, but politics is a hard business, Liberal Members of Congress will start to hear from their Liberal base that Afghanistan like Iraq is a Bush 43 war and that the USA should get out. The Liberal Members of Congress the need the base to get out the vote in the Mid Term Congressional Elections, thus they will start to feel the heat next year to get out of Afghanistan. If Obama folds to Congress he will lose the House in 2012 and his re-election in 2012.

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