{"id":29477,"date":"2012-04-12T08:10:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T12:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29477"},"modified":"2012-04-12T08:20:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T12:20:43","slug":"abcpost-poll-republicans-say-war-in-afghanistan-not-worth-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29477","title":{"rendered":"ABC\/Post poll: Republicans say war in Afghanistan “not worth fighting”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Washington Post<\/a> writes a half-assed story (as usual) that leans heavily on a poll they did with ABC which says that a majority of Republicans who they polled say that the war in Afghanistan is not worth fighting. In their half-assed way, the Post strikes a glancing blow at Obama and merely touches on the reason that poll might have turned out that way;<\/p>\n

The poll findings are likely to present a challenge for Republican front-runner Mitt Romney, who has said that the goal in Afghanistan should be to defeat the Taliban on the battlefield.<\/p>\n

President Obama stepped back from that goal during his 2009 strategy review and has set the end of 2014 as the departure date for all U.S. combat forces.<\/p>\n

Overall, the Post-ABC News poll reflects a country bone-weary of war after more than a decade of fighting in Afghanistan and, until late last year, an almost nine-year engagement in Iraq.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Romney is correct; the goal should be to defeat the Taliban (and al Qaeda) in Afghanistan, but as I’ve said countless times since the summer of 2009, victory isn’t even in the vocabulary of the Obama Administration. Their goal in Afghanistan begins and ends with “withdrawal” – I’m pretty sure that Republicans don’t support the war in Afghanistan, not because of it’s length or their bone-weariness. But because this administration has continued the presence of troops in Afghanistan just so he could ride on their shoulders into the next election. Witness the Post quoting his latest campaign meme;<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the first time in nine years, there are no Americans fighting in Iraq,\u201d Obama told an audience in Hollywood, Fla., at a campaign fundraising event Tuesday. \u201cAnd we\u2019ve begun to transition in Afghanistan to put Afghans in the lead, bring our troops home.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can play back an interview on YouTube that I did with Adam Kokesh back in early Spring of 2009 wherein I told Kokesh that I support Obama’s war policy, however, by the Fall, my support of his policy fell off when he ignored his generals’ recommendation for 60,000 troops and made a political decision to compromise between his generals’ recommendation and the anti-war crowd. At that point, I knew any decisions that came out of the White House weren’t going to be in support of our National Defense, or in support of our troops – it was going to be in support of Obama\/Biden 2012.<\/p>\n

Republicans are disillusioned with the war in Afghanistan because they know what victory should look like, and we’re not going to see it Afghanistan. The only victory that the Obama Administration can see in Afghanistan is the one in November. Who wants to be the last to die in Afghanistan for the Obama\/Biden 2012 campaign?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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