Another Day, Another War

I’m not sold on fighting another war in the middle east yet. I don’t mind having covert attacks and raids based on intelligence, but I still see this as a high stakes game of wack-a-mole. The war in Iraq ended up being largely a war of sectarian violence, albeit spurred on by al Quaeda, but in Afghanistan there will be an even larger influence of countries not that anxious to help. If we were to drive out the Taliban – a big if – we would merely be looking at the terrorists relocating elsewhere. This is one huge problem with terrorists. They have no country... they just look for a place of safe haven and thus far there has been one to be found.

I’m very surprised that Obama is following this path, I think he will pay a high political price for it. If McCain had been elected and announced this strategy there would be an outcry from Democrats the likes of which would deafen the ears of the nation.

And Obama thinks he’s going to accomplish this while lowering the defense budget and decreasing deployments. Like McCain said, the popularity of a war hinges on it's casualties... we’ll see how this works out for Obama and our country. I’m skeptical of “hoping” the President has it right when it comes to decisions on war.