Obama Can Win in Afghanistan
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 4th, 2009 5:32 am by HL
Obama Can Win in Afghanistan
Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal
President Barack Obama's speech on Tuesday night deserves to be cheered. Over the objections of his vice president and despite opposition from his political base, the president is sending an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan to fight terrorists.But praise for Mr. Obama's decision needs to be qualified. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, had said he could use as many as 40,000 troops, a figure he arrived at after carefully evaluating what would be needed to accomplish the mission Mr. Obama assigned him in June.Mr. Obama hopes NATO can make up the…
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Robert Samuelson, Newsweek
WASHINGTON — You have to be mighty isolated not to know someone who has been laid off, was forced into early retirement or — just entering the labor market — can't find a job. Unemployment of 10.2 percent is still below the post-World War II peak of 10.8 percent of late 1982, but by other measures, the job situation is the worst since the Great Depression. More than a third of the unemployed have been without work longer than six months, a postwar record. Counting those who involuntarily have only part-time work and those who would like a job but have stopped looking, the…
