A Dozen Problems In The US Military Could Be Solved By Simply Ending The War
Barack Obama got elected in 2008 partly on the basis of calling into question Republican national security judgments. He was right. The invasion of Iraq was more than just a blunder. It was strategic malpractice of the first order.
As 2009 Obama articulated, the most disheartening aspect of the Iraq fiasco was the inability of the Bush Administration to walk and chew bubble gum at the same time, taking its eye off an arguable war of necessity in Afghanistan to obsess over a war of choice in Iraq and turning both into debacles as a result.
But in an almost poetic, woeful stroke of political irony, 2014 Obama is committing the same sin he once bemoaned so effectively. He’s taking his eye off the ball in Afghanistan. Like his predecessor, he’s neglecting not only the war, but those doing the fighting on his behalf.
President Obama’s last press conference devoted to discussing the war in Afghanistan was one year ago. At that joint event with Hamid Karzai, he declared that the U.S. had accomplished what it set out to do there. Since then, he has barely discussed the subject at all.
Since then, 132 Americans have lost their lives in combat. The U.S. has spent more than $86 billion to sustain a war effort that doesn’t consistently make the evening news. Since then, Karzai has released prisoners considered threatening to our security.
much more (good read)
http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-administration-through-war-in-afghanistan-2014-1
I would say, end the wars. Now.
