Will Bin Laden’s Death End The Afghanistan War?
Since Sunday’s successful raid ending the era of Osama bin Laden I’ve been seeing more and more Democrats saying we need to end the war in Afghanistan. Jed Lewison ponders the differences between the approval bumps for George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and President Obama:
In 2002 and 2003, Bush used his popularity to start and then to prolong an ill-considered war in Iraq that eventually consumed his presidency, ignoring not just the threat posed by the people who actually attacked us on 9/11 but also the growing economic threats. In 2011, Obama will almost certainly use this event to end, not prolong the war in Afghanistan, and to refocus the country on the need to invest in our own future. That’s the way he talked about it in the 2008 campaign, and that’s what I expect he’ll do in 2011. And the extent to which he’s able to use this moment to achieve that goal will have a far bigger impact on his political future than the fleeting results the polls of today.
The time to start ending the war in Afghanistan is now. Afghanistan wants us gone. The American people want us to leave and some U.S. lawmakers are saying to end it. I can’t think of a better legacy of bin Laden’s death if we are able to declare victory and leave. It will indeed be another promise kept.
The end of an error. The cartoonish imperialism of the Bush years that was based on the lyrics of Toby Keith songs rather than a thoughtful consideration of reality needs to be brought to a rapid close.
Declare victory and leave. Indeed.
I’d like someone to define War for me please and then I will answer your question.
But if anyone here really thinks we are “ending” anything in Afghanistan they are nuts. Hell, we still have like 50,000 troops in Iraq not even including the “civilian” security forces that everyone forgets about
The time to really start leaving Afghanistan is now! After another terror attack, the US will again look week if a few al Qaeda members suicide-bomb the withdrawing troops. but only if there was another terror attack first.
Time to cheer that the Wicked Witch is Dead. Bin Laden despite the fact that a dialysis machine can’t be moved to a cave, made it look like he was broadcasting from a cave entrance sicking the US on the Border Areas.
Before 9/11 Muslim girls en mass covered their hair a little less than their mothers did and Muslims everywhere hated the Taliban for banning music. And the Northern Alliance was slowly gaining ground without US help. So he sicked the US on Afghanistan, and around the world started a bar room brawl.
In Palestine al Qaeda killed a Italian non-violent peace activist. I at first was extremely mad at Israel for I thought doing it.
But if we don’t start withdrawing, before another terror attackit will be increasing more dificult after one occurs and time goes on without looking like a defeated army.
If it ends up a bankrupt world bin Laden’s ghost will have the final victory after all.
Please spread far and wide unless someone like McCain Bush, Powell, or Condoleezza Rice call for US now coming home from Afghanistan,
http://readersupportednews.org/pm-section/21-21/5825-the-afghan-war-is-almost-over-it-we-would-again-join-john-lennon-in-imagining-peace
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/902#comments