Taliban pushed back, long way to go: Obama {and other 'Bush positions'}

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Sun Jul 12, 2009 10:04 AM EDT

Article Source: Reuters

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LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. and allied troops have pushed back Taliban insurgents in a major offensive in Afghanistan but there is still a long way to go, President Barack Obama said on Saturday.

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excerpt 2: "Asked whether Washington still needed British forces in Afghanistan now that it was ramping up its forces there, Obama said: "The contribution of the British is critical."

"This is not an American mission. The mission in Afghanistan is one that the Europeans have as much if not more of a stake in than we do ... The likelihood of a terrorist attack in London is at least as high, if not higher, than it is in the United States," he said

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#1 - Sun Jul 12, 2009 10:05 AM EDT

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bluecollarbytes

Sounds familiar some how.....naw...it couldn't be...

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#1.1 - Sun Jul 12, 2009 10:06 AM EDT

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Uhhh....we've known all along that the focus of our anti-terrorist efforts should have been Afghanistan and Pakistan. It was Bush and Cheney that deliberately deceived the public into believing that Iraq was the center of terrorist recruitment and training, a myth that is still being perpetuated by pundits and politicians within the GOP today.

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#3 - Sun Jul 12, 2009 10:37 AM EDT

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ScienceGuy-356641

If you recall, Obama campaigned on the urgency to withdraw our troops from Iraq and shift our focus in Afghanistan and Pakistan. And now that is what he is doing. So why are you acting so shocked and indignant?

The world is not black and white, so to claim that Obama and Bush are the same because both support going after terrorist cells abroad (albeit in completely different nations) is a bit simplistic and quite naive.

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#3.2 - Sun Jul 12, 2009 10:58 AM EDT

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ScienceGuy-356641

I never claimed to support every one of Obama's decisions and policies, but he has made a 200% improvement over the Bush Administration with respect to our foreign policy, and so I still contend that it is simplistic to equate his ideologies and decisions with those of the previous POTUS.

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#3.4 - Sun Jul 12, 2009 11:22 AM EDT

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Reality and campaign rhetoric are two different things.

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#4 - Sun Jul 12, 2009 4:51 PM EDT

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