Italy Good Friend

Guardian: Reports that Italy will send another eight hundred troops to Afghanistan, their total force will now be two thousand and eight hundred. This move will force the UK to send its surge of troops, lets hope this works, have my doubts, in less you cut off the terrorists coming from the badlands of the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan the surges of the West will not work, lets send our troops in to Pakistan, lets finish this once and for all, the Government of Pakistan cant do the job, the West could lose hundreds or even thousands of troops in Afghanistan, if that is their fate lets say we did the best we could, lets take the terrorists out in Pakistan.

Obama and Iraq

Fox News: Reports that the Obama Administration could take up to twenty three months to get out of Iraq, not the sixteen months that Candidate Obama stated on the Campaign Trail. A longer timetable for withdrawal would be a wise move by Obama, it would allow Iraq to build up its own security, the USA could take out combat troops but have enough US Service Personnel in country to train the Iraqi military and police. Also in the region it would warn Iran that the USA is still over the border should Iran ever go nuclear, Obama if he plays this right could have Iraq as a net positive for Obama, a peaceful Iraq would be in contrast to Afghanistan, Afghanistan could become Obama's War after the planed surge of American troops this year. Read of the Day.

805 Billion Obama Money Pit

Fox News: Reports on the price tag for the Obama Economic Plan, eight hundred and Five Billion Dollars. Lets give it a chance, have opposed this and the bank bailout, the bank bailout has cost over seventy billion in losses for the tax payer. It can be argued that this vast spending spree should prevent another Great Depression but it can be postulated it will not prevent another 1982 kind of recession. Ronald Reagan has an approvals rating of in the thirties in this period but still won big in 84. Lets see if President Obama is a master politician in the shape of Reagan and Clinton, can he get re-elected in 2012. Is this Economic Plan the building to a great re-election or the first bad throw of the dice that will lead to a one term Obama Administration.