Sunday, November 29, 2009

The Human Rights Pitch - Afghanistan

Politico: Reports on the call for President Obama to use the Human Rights Card when it comes to sending more troops to Afghanistan, in the case of Afghanistan the treatment of women by the Taliban, something out of the dawn of time. Lets again be honest here folks, one can understand why POTUS does not want to use the human rights card, if the Taliban would agree not to allow the Al Qaeda to have bases in Afghanistan then Taliban of Afghanistan could have Afghanistan to run as they want, also if the agreed not to support the Taliban of Pakistan then the West would leave Afghanistan alone. This is brute real politics folks, Obama as a Nobel Prize Winner has a problem, the Candidate who wanted to talk to every USA enemy now finds that those enemies, Iran to North Korea have his number, they see him as weak, that also includes the Taliban of Afghanistan, the Taliban think they can wait Obama out, they might be right. In the speech on Tuesday on Afghanistan POTUS will state that he sending around thirty thousand troops to Afghanistan, with NATO adding a further five thousand. But Obama has to keep his liberal base happy thus the will talk about exit routes, how can he talk about exit routes if the Taliban will take women back to the dark ages. Thus the political reality of Obama is countered by the human rights card, that every President has used as part of his Foreign Policy. It can be postulated that Obama would be happy to leave Afghanistan if Taliban could be trusted to behave over the terrorism and Pakistan, thus this runs counter to human rights. This it can be postulated that Obama wont use the human rights card. Ironic form a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

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