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The President’s Deaf Ear
5 hours ago ago from The Razor
Watching the president's approval ratings sink and hearing people regret their votes cast a year ago makes me consider the president's failure to acknowledge the growing chorus of criticism of his policies. The tone deafness of his administration manifests itself from the refusal to compromise with the GOP on health care to the shrugging off of the losses of governorships in Virginia and New Jersey. Where Clinton kept a close watch on his ...
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15 hours ago ago from Anti-Republican Culture
President Obama recently gave a speech at the United States Military Academy , laying out his prosecution of the war in Afghanistan. The speech announced the deployment of additional troops: “…I have determined that it is in our vital national interest to send an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan.” …and then the redeployment of those troops: “After 18 months, our troops will begin to come home.” The President spoke of the ...
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22 hours ago ago from Sisyphus
There is much second guessing President Obama’s speech last week regarding the decision the administration has reached about the future of the conflict in Afghanistan and the border areas of Pakistan. Faced with only bad choices to resolve the conflict the Bush administration had let fester while focusing attention on the second war it launched in Iraq the President picked the least awful option that hopefully can lead to a non-disastrous ...
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22 hours ago ago from Cloozoe\'s International House of Pancakes
The botched war in Afghanistan, like the economic crisis and the broken health-care system, is an inheritance from which Obama is trying to extricate the country. In each case, the institutional, historical, and political constraints under which a President must operate mean that the solutions—or, if there are no solutions, the ameliorations—are doomed to be nearly as messy as the problems. ...George W. Bush proclaimed...“Our war on terror ...
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10 minutes ago ago from PadminiArhant.com
By Padmini Arhant The West Point address delivered by President Barack Obama on the troops surge resonate the message from the former President George W. Bush then amassing support for troop expansion in Iraq. Therefore, it is no surprise and not hard to figure out the source providing the material. Since invasion, Afghan war is presented as the war of ‘necessity’ against the Iraq war of ‘choice.’ Indisputably, on September 11, 2001 ...
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Lawrence Korb: Paying for Our Wars
12 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Now that President Obama has decided to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan the question of how to pay for this increased level of operations has arisen. In fact the question of how to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan should have been raised shortly after the attacks of 9-11 when the Bush administration decided to overthrow the regimes in both of those countries. Throughout our history whenever this nation became involved in a ...
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11 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
They scorned "any idea of moderation" and greeted with contempt any effort "to understand a question from all sides." Their primary goal was "to acquire power" by frustrating those in authority at every turn. If the President "made a reasonable speech," they "took every precaution to see that it had no practical effect." Although "professing to serve the public interest," they in fact "were seeking to win" power "for themselves." In "their ...
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