The Sunday Times: Reports that the Obama Administration is thinking of more extensive strikes in Pakistan to take out Taliban/Terrorists. This change of policy from more troops in Afghanistan to a more extensive drone attacks in Pakistan would be a mistake, the secular government of Pakistan could fall, on the one hand its looks better option that sending another thirty to forty thousand troops to Afghanistan, but its an illusion, very tempting but not real. If Obama dumps Afghanistan his Just War talk of the 08 Campaign will be seen hypocrisy of the first order, he would have lied to the American voter in 08 and as President he would have sold them a dud policy in March. President Obama has to remember one fact, if Israel thinks that Obama is weak and a hypocrite that could sell them out under enough pressure they will strike Iran. Thus in many respects President Obama created his own political box, he wanted to be POTUS and thus his Just War view of Afghanistan as compared to Iraq, now Afghanistan is biting him in the backside his West Wing hacks are wobbly and some are fighting Vietnam again, this decision will tell the West and the US voter if they have elected another Ronald Reagan or Neville Chamberlain.
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