Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: If there is one area liberals should trust Obama, it's foreign policy. [View all]jeff47
(26,549 posts)46. Yes, sending 273 troops is exactly like sending 20,000.
Edit history
Please sign in to view edit histories.
64 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
RecommendedHighlight replies with 5 or more recommendations
If there is one area liberals should trust Obama, it's foreign policy. [View all]
Drunken Irishman
Jun 2014
OP
And, I do.. Too bad those with their hair on fire like chucky todd don't give him an ounce
Cha
Jun 2014
#2
I know right? He sure as hell wouldn't listen to a lying piece of excrement like Chalabi
Dragonfli
Jun 2014
#4
The good thing regarding this situation is Obama is hitting all time lows in poll numbers, so in
quinnox
Jun 2014
#5
Please stop posting the neocon lie that the "surge" had anything to do with the fall-off in
eridani
Jun 2014
#7
While I'm not going to go into debating the surge, I do agree with your last post...
Drunken Irishman
Jun 2014
#11
Sick. You are suggesting he kill children and re-engage in a fruitless war for POLITICAL REASONS!
grahamhgreen
Jun 2014
#9
Drones = dead children. We are creating a hundred thousand bin ladens with our endless war. We
grahamhgreen
Jun 2014
#12
If we use Vietnam as a lesson - we left, and now they make our baseball hats! The domino theory
grahamhgreen
Jun 2014
#14
I would submit that our meddling caused Pol-pot, et al, as well - in fact it was the North Vietnames
grahamhgreen
Jun 2014
#53
In my view, we should have supported the norths independence movement from the start:
grahamhgreen
Jun 2014
#55
Missed opportunities go back even further to the Treaty of Versailles, had Ho Chi Minh been
Uncle Joe
Jun 2014
#61
The U.S. had a plan to invade Laos, which it almost did in late '63/early '64
pinboy3niner
Jun 2014
#62
When I went back to Vietnam in '93 they already had a Hard Rock Cafe in Saigon
pinboy3niner
Jun 2014
#59
Bush dramatically increased drone attacks in his last year in office. Still, Obama beat Bush on
merrily
Jun 2014
#43
More like the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. Europe & America sowed the seeds of WW II and much else
Hekate
Jun 2014
#21
And centuries before that, the idea by those countries that they could and should
merrily
Jun 2014
#26
No apology necessary. I didn't perceive your post as an attack. I just gave the context
merrily
Jun 2014
#40
It's also a nation that has had only one comparative economic meltdown in its modern history...
Drunken Irishman
Jun 2014
#57
Weak sauce.. President Obama goes with his own council and what he thinks is best for
Cha
Jun 2014
#58
Few if ANY Politician can be trusted on ANYTHING, too much money involved and money trumps
Exposethefrauds
Jun 2014
#64