Friday, April 9, 2010
Is it too early?
There has been word circulating for sometime now about whether or not President Obama should pull us out of Afghanistan and Iraq. The question is, is it to early? And what would happen if it were too early. When we were attacked on sept 11, 2001, we went to Afghanistan to fight and defeat Osama Bin Laden and we have been there ever since without much improvement. We are in Iraq to fight for oil and still, aren't seeing much improvement although we did capture and kill saddam Hussein. So if we pull out now, we have not only waisted our time there thus far, we have also left two jobs unfinished. I have this strong feeling that pulling out now would be the worst choice. We have already gotten ourselves involved deeply in these wars, we might as well stick with it until we see it done. The day we pull out and abandon Afghanistan as a broken country with Bin Laden still in control, is the day we have another major terrorist attack. They aren't done fighting, so we shouldn't be giving up just because our country decided to elect a president who is against war.
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Maybe it is time to just cut our losses and start to pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan. You have some very good points for your position but just like you said there hasn't been much improvement on finding Osama Bin Laden. The fight in Iraq is still continuing too, without much progress. I'm not saying that giving up and going home right now is the answer but we should be thinking about an end to this war. This article I read earlier made some very good arguments about the US pulling out of Iraq. One argument he makes is American Military forces in Iraq are harming US interests in the Arab world. He advises that pulling out now will save us a lot of grief later. Maybe it's time to look into some alternative options.
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