It is remarkable that, a year removed from campaigning on the premise that he would end the US occupation Iraq and Afghanistan, President Obama is sending in additional troops to Afghanistan.
Remember the surge? Remember the outrage? I remember indignant liberal Richard Belzer describing the term as “vulgar”, and suggesting that it concealed the reality, which was an escalation of war. I’m curious what Belzer would say to Obama’s escalation of the Afghanistan war.
Quite frankly, I am okay with it. I support anything that distracts Obama’s attention from his seemingly well-intentioned but grossly misguided domestic agenda of implementing socialist principles to banking, industry and health care. It took Pearl Harbor to distract a well-intentioned but grossly misguided Franklin Roosevelt from his own socialist initiatives, which themselves only prolonged the Great Depression.
Of course, I would prefer that war didn’t take place. But if it must, and if the choice is between war with a proven enemy and domestic economic collapse, the choice is pretty easy to me.