Reply #101: It's amazing,

[MadHound]

The people around here defending this action with the line "well, he ran on expanding the war in Afghanistan" like this somehow makes it all right. It doesn't, nowhere near anything that can be termed right.

Yes, he ran on a platform of getting out of Iraq, and expanding the war in Afghanistan. Given the alternatives of the time, Hillary, who was, and probably still is itching for a fight with Iran, and McCain, who would just continue the same of shit, the alternative of Obama seemed like the best out of a bad lot.

However just because Obama ran on this platform, and just because we voted for Obama doesn't mean that we have to agree with the widening of this war. Nor does it mean that we should stop trying to persuade Obama that the course he takes in Afghanistan is the wrong one. In fact Obama needs to pay attention to people like Code Pink and the anti-war groups. We're not going to go away, and if you don't pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan, then his honeymoon will end quickly and his chances for re-election will diminish quickly.

Just because a Democrat is now waging an expanded war doesn't make that war right or moral. All one has to do is look at LBJ for an example of that. Instead, what we should all be doing, rather than excusing Obama and his war is once again working towards persuading him to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and bring the troops, all the troops home.