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=> Been There....Done That.

Been There....Done That.
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Saturday, March 28 2009, 19:09:46 (CET)
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Where did you hear this before?

"President Obama this morning announced a new Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy that will require significantly higher levels of U.S. funding and thousands more military and civilian personnel to reverse what he called an "increasingly perilous" situation.

"I do not ask for this support lightly," Obama said in a White House speech before regional ambassadors, aid officials and his senior national security team. "These are challenging times, and resources are stretched. But the American people must understand that this is a down payment on our own future."

Among the resources required, he said, are an additional 4,000 troops, beyond the 17,000 he authorized last month, that will bring total U.S. deployments to more than 60,000. U.S. military expenses for Afghan operations this year, White House aides said, will increase about 60 percent from the current toll of $2 billion a month. The newly announced forces, from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, will serve as trainers and advisers to an Afghan army expected to double to 134,000 by 2011.

Obama called on Congress to pass legislation to provide $1.5 billion a year for five years in economic assistance to Pakistan, along with a bill creating "opportunity zones" for exports. Additional development aid is also planned for Afghanistan, and Obama said he would launch a "dramatic increase," expected to number in the hundreds, of U.S. civilian officials on the ground there. The United States also plans to provide additional equipment, including transport helicopters, to the Pakistani military."

Obama will sanitize the Bush Doctrine...he will clean up the stench of lies left behind with his own brand of "Hope". In one sense he can't avoid it....for just like the 50s we've allowed conditions to be defined in such a way that no one then could be seen as
soft" on communism...and no one now can be soft on terrorism. It was a lie then...it's a lie now.

This is the preferred means by which politicians get into office..one set scares us...the other gives us "hope"....but they depend on and play off one another.

Interesting to recall that this is exactly what led to Kennedy's assassination...the fear among rabid Cold-Warriors that he would go soft on communism...seek detente and accommodation...many fortunes and careers were at stake....Obama, or anyone else, faces the same dilema...he HAD to talk hope and change because too many were sick of the status quo...but he really can't afford to do the right thing, except as that means carrying on the old policy but with a better front...a Black front is even better.



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