Don’t Settle for Stalemate in Afghanistan
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 19th, 2009 4:31 am by HL
Don’t Settle for Stalemate in Afghanistan
Skelton & Lieberman, Wash Post
Six months ago the Obama administration concluded that the only way to stop Afghanistan's slide into insecurity and prevent the reemergence of a terrorist haven was to put in place an integrated counterinsurgency strategy focused on protecting the Afghan population, building up the Afghan national security forces and improving Afghan governance.We strongly supported the president's decision and continue to believe that he was right. He also made the right decision last week when, in a meeting with congressional leaders, he ruled out withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan.The key…
Stimulating Incumbency
George Will, Sacramento Bee
Bet on It: ACORN Will Be Back
Nolan Finley, Detroit News
ACORN may be down, but don't count it out. The elaborate propaganda apparatus erected to support the Obama agenda is already at work spinning the downfall of the community organization into a vicious right-wing plot to destroy the presidency of Barack Obama, who sprouted from ACORN. The group was cut off from some of its taxpayer dollars after conservative bloggers duped ACORN staffers into offering advice on setting up a child prostitution ring. ACORN had no defense — it was caught on tape and posted on the Web. But ACORN is too important to Democrats and Obama in particular to allow…
