Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Obama's Surge -- A Commentary

President-elect Obama (Photo from The New York Times)
Jim Wilson/The New York Times

From Investors Business Daily:

War On Terrorism: The Pentagon will add thousands of troops to Afghanistan next summer, setting up the smart war Barack Obama prefers. We hope he won't one day regret his choice and pull troops out too soon.

In October 2002, as President Bush and Congress were finalizing plans to invade Iraq and topple Saddam Hussein's brutal regime, Obama told participants at an anti-war rally in Chicago that he didn't "oppose all wars," but was certainly against "a dumb war" that is "based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics."

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