Deja vu all over again: Obama to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan

It disappoints me that he keeps invoking September 11 and Al Qaeda, all the while ignoring that they arose in Saudi Arabia. I believe he knows better and that makes these remarks all the more suspect. He tries to mitigate the impact by suggesting that NATO and ‘our friends’ support this.

They may support it in theory, but I’ll be surprised to see them send a significant number of troops to join the 30,000.

It is true that the inexcuseable dithering of the Bush administration has put Obama in this damned if you do, and damned if you don’t situation.

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Friday Fish Wrap:November 21, 2008

Updated on Friday, November 21, 2008 at 11:37 by mavenandmeddler

Well, the stock market really took another nose dive, barely hanging in just above the 7,000 mark. Just a couple of months ago, I listened skeptically as an analyst predicted it would go to 6,000, and I’m thinking right now that ‘hey, it could happen.’ This thing is worse than anybody has yet to comprehend.

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