Afghanistan

Mother Jones: Reports on the importance that Obama Administration should give to telling the truth when it comes Afghanistan, other wise you have another Vietnam War complex. So is Obama the new LBJ. The advantage that President Obama has is that he is good on TV, thus if he gets around to sending more troops to Afghanistan he should stand a good chance of selling it to the US voter. In Vietnam President Johnson was bad on the old TV, ( yes folks there was TV even then! even colour ) Johnson made a mistake in the 1964 Presidential Election, he wanted to keep Vietnam on the back burner, with the exception of an attack on the North Vietnam due to an attack on a US ship the President kept Vietnam off the main debate. That the War was going well was destroyed by the Tet offensive of 1968, although the Viet Cong lost the battles they won the war due to TV press perception that the War was a loser. Thus 1968 LBJ was forced out of office by Vietnam, that is the fear of the Obama people, the problem for them is that Obama made Afghanistan the Just War, the war that had to be fought, unlike Iraq. It seems history will have the last laugh on Obama, Iraq has problems but on the whole the USA has won in Iraq. It seems that Obama is heading down a road that leads to defeat for the USA, it seems that Obama well could be the next LBJ.