Reply #33: Using his own words

[jeanpalmer]

"You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq." And you don't defeat them by occupying Afghanistan either. And yet that's what he's doing.

"When John McCain said we could just "muddle through" in Afghanistan, I argued for more resources and more troops to finish the fight against the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11...." But according to reports, bin Laden and al Qaeda are in Pakistan. So how is occupying Afghanistan going to get the 9-11 terrorists who are in Pakistan?

Does he know where bin Laden or al Qaeda are hiding? If he does, why doesn't he get them? If he doesn't, why is he sending troops into Afghanistan?

He's not making any sense. If the reports saying he will send more troops are true, he's going to be LBJ all over again. Or maybe Nixon. Nixon spent the first two years of his presidency escalating in Vietnam, going for victory, and then did a 180 and started withdrawing when he realized victory wasn't possible, timing the last withdrawal with the 1972 election. It was a ploy that worked, politically.