[Farmer Dean]

This poser is gonna get good people killed,in an attempt to buy votes.

[WesternPacific]

I can only pray for my Soldier Son and all the other Soldiers, Marines, Airmen, Sailors, and others put in harm’s way by this Administration. God protect them all.

[MulberryDraw]

Strategically, removal of 30,000 troops in 15 months means that Obama has given up all hope of victory over the Taliban.

After all his campaign rhetoric about Afganistan being so important and Iraq being a big mistake. Nothing this guy says is believable.

[ClearCase_guy]

But the people who should be indicted by history are not those who, after half a trillion dollars and a decade of bleeding, decided to cut America's losses, but those who stampeded this country into two of the longest and least necessary wars in the history of the republic.

Pat Buchanan looks at Barack Obama's administration, looks at the problems in the world, and concludes: It's Bush's fault.

[driftdiver]

What was it John McCain said? Oh yeah that we have nothing to fear from a BO president.

He need to retire and move into a nursing home for the mentally deficient.

[rhombus]

I don’t even think it was a very smart political move. This gives an entire year for people to point (rightly or wrongly) at Afghan violence and say see, see, see... he should have listened to his Generals. Obama could have pushed the date back to next summer and still got the political credit he craves.

[Venturer]

If I was in Charge I would bring them all out next month along with anything I could haul away and I would destroy anything I couldn’t haul away.

The people there do not want us there, and we will never defeat the Taliban any more than the Japanese could defeat free Philipino’s in WW2.

[Carry_Okie]

Obama is ending Bush's useless war, for if AQ had not picked Afghanistan, it could have operated in any number of countries. They certainly didn't need a base for what they pulled off here on 9/11. After all, AQ or its equivalent has been allowed its training camps within the US for probably 15 years. So, what was the point? Burning up capital? Wasting our military abroad? More debt? Propping up Europe's oil supply? Making sure everybody uses dollars for oil so that the Fed could go on printing money? What??? That's sure what it looks like.

A "War on Terror" should have been fought here, not by the military, but by the MILITIA. This is what the Second Amendment was designed to address. We should have killed, captured, or expelled every Islamic radical in the country. It would have built the communications and logistics infrastructure by which to preclude our emerging domestic communist threat. We should have built a border that means something.

That is a project Bush never even contemplated, and would have in fact, virulently opposed. Instead, he built the organizational foundations of a police state, fanned his ego with the housing bubble, allowed the Clinton regulatory juggernaut to take the country down. When it finally did, he handed the keys to a communist.

[Grumplestiltskin]

Pat Buchanan, right once again....

[hinckley buzzard]

Buchanan blames Bush.

[Gaffer]

Frankly, I do want all the troops to come home from Afghanistan as soon as possible. I also want to leave a few goodies behind...... a nuke on every hilltop and valley from Northern Afghanistan down on thru into Pakistan proper. You don't have to convince their hearts and minds if they don't exist anymore.