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You make some excellent points here, especially about the bombing in Afghanistan on Wednesday that I have yet to hear anyone mention, but a lot has actually changed.
Yes, there are more casualties in AFPAK. That’s because were FINALLY conducting the kind of combat operations against A-Q and the Taliban that we should’ve been doing all along.
I do admit that the Left seems to had some unexplained amnesia about his promise to actually conduct real combat Ops in AFPAK, but comparing the two is utter bullshit.
Let’s examine the “Milestone in Deaths” that us critics of the bungled war in Iraq keep pointing out. AND I’ll use the same website: http://icasualties.org/
Total for OIF is 4436, or 2 1/2 times higher than the 1463 casualties in OEF. That would be 9 years of combat operations with almost 8 times the amount of troops on the ground.
4 years of operations in Iraq resulted in more than 800 casualties, two years had more than 300, and one year had 150. 3421 of those casualties occurred between 2004-2007, when the Bush administration was clueless about the dire situation in Iraq, and simply let the troops be targets.
All over a country that had JACK SHIT to do with 9/11.
Afghanistan is the focus of the war on terror – and instead of fighting that war, (however difficult it was going to be) Bush invaded Iraq. The Bush admin did it AND blew it. And he neglected the operations we NEEDED to do in AFPAK, making it harder to be successful when someone (Obama) recognized which war we needed to end, and which one to fight.
So yes, there are casualties in War, that’s what war is, If you want to blame someone for it, blame Bush for neglecting it as long as he did, AND for outsourcing the one chance we had to either capture or kill OBL.
Would it go too far to say that if this ever happens again that we invade the right country next time ?
I mean I love that you now love the president and all, but your rhetoric up to this point hasn’t reflected that.
doesn’t mean unilaterally pulling out and going home. For better or worse, Obama is obligated to see Bush’s policy through. He’s an honorable man that way, and that’s nothing he can receive a syllable of legitimate criticism for. Something the hardcore antiwar folk should keep in mind.
Most of his other failings are political in nature. Although I’ve heard some call for using Supermax to house the Guantanamo detainees, it hasn’t come from anyone with the authority to make that call AFAIK. Could be wrong there. Could be that that’s a much bigger political hot potato than I would assume it to be.
That said, RSB’s excellent first point is a succinct answer to your question.