Pretty interesting to see the possibility of Ahmadinejad being ousted by his countrymen instead our countrymen intervening, expending indeterminable amounts of lives and money to do so.
Oddly enough some conservatives are concerned their boogyman Ahmadinejad might get voted out.
Obama's speech was perfectly timed and his triangulation in squeezing Islamic extremists is masterful IMO.
His one dimensional critics have missed the big picture in all of their shrill fill-in-the-blank mongering.
What they miss is Obama is seizing the opportunity to help moderates and reformers drown out the extremists in Lebanon and Iran by his actions and his increased pressure on Pakistan to confront the Taliban and AQ.
Obama made clear that he wouldn't tolerate bombing whole blocks or villages of innocent people (as these circumstances hurt our cause with moderates) to get one or two ****** suspects. That's why as unfortunate as it was that Gen. McKiernan was replaced shortly after that bombing incident in Iran. Gates didn't say so but that was the reality.
We've just deployed appx. 7k of our great and brave Marines in the south of Afghanistan and with the increased assaults on the Taliban and AQ in Pakistan it shouldn't be long now that were actually going after the people who want to **** us instead of trying to fashion Iraq in our image.
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Obama has symbolically announced the closing of GTMO, gotten Pakistan to confront the Taliban and AQ where they are, deployed much needed troops against AQ and Taliban ****** in Afghanistan, replaced a General as soon as it was confirmed we bombed a village of people instead of going in and getting the targets, spoke directly to the Muslim people in Cairo as he promised...likely directly affecting the political revolutions in Lebanon and potentially in Iran and showed the world how to deal with pirates while bringing the Capt. of the vessel home safely...coincidentialy interdiction of these pirate clans has been on the rise since.
And but for these to airhead bimbos taking it upon themselves to invade North Korea, Obama was seemingly ready to line Kimmy's little ass up in the cross hairs too.
I must say, Obama has done as good a job in foreign policy in 5 months as I have ever heard of. The guy has been a virtuoso so far...and I haven't even discussed what he's done to bring Europe back into the fold for us.:2 cents:
He's doing all this without making a big huh-bub about it.
Oddly enough some conservatives are concerned their boogyman Ahmadinejad might get voted out.
Obama's speech was perfectly timed and his triangulation in squeezing Islamic extremists is masterful IMO.
His one dimensional critics have missed the big picture in all of their shrill fill-in-the-blank mongering.
What they miss is Obama is seizing the opportunity to help moderates and reformers drown out the extremists in Lebanon and Iran by his actions and his increased pressure on Pakistan to confront the Taliban and AQ.
Obama made clear that he wouldn't tolerate bombing whole blocks or villages of innocent people (as these circumstances hurt our cause with moderates) to get one or two ****** suspects. That's why as unfortunate as it was that Gen. McKiernan was replaced shortly after that bombing incident in Iran. Gates didn't say so but that was the reality.
We've just deployed appx. 7k of our great and brave Marines in the south of Afghanistan and with the increased assaults on the Taliban and AQ in Pakistan it shouldn't be long now that were actually going after the people who want to **** us instead of trying to fashion Iraq in our image.
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Obama has symbolically announced the closing of GTMO, gotten Pakistan to confront the Taliban and AQ where they are, deployed much needed troops against AQ and Taliban ****** in Afghanistan, replaced a General as soon as it was confirmed we bombed a village of people instead of going in and getting the targets, spoke directly to the Muslim people in Cairo as he promised...likely directly affecting the political revolutions in Lebanon and potentially in Iran and showed the world how to deal with pirates while bringing the Capt. of the vessel home safely...coincidentialy interdiction of these pirate clans has been on the rise since.
And but for these to airhead bimbos taking it upon themselves to invade North Korea, Obama was seemingly ready to line Kimmy's little ass up in the cross hairs too.
I must say, Obama has done as good a job in foreign policy in 5 months as I have ever heard of. The guy has been a virtuoso so far...and I haven't even discussed what he's done to bring Europe back into the fold for us.:2 cents:
He's doing all this without making a big huh-bub about it.
