Worried Obama

By Paul Flynn (Lab) • on October 29, 2009, 5:39 pm

President Obama is deeply troubled He has changed the 18 year old policy of George Bush   and allowed the media to film the arrival home of America's dead from Afghanistan.  Even more significantly, he today greeted and saluted the fallen.It has been the bloodiest month so far in the past eight years for US troops in Afghanistan - with at least 53 killed. On Monday, Mr Obama told troops at a Florida naval base he would not rush any decision about boosting the number of troops in Afghanistan. He said he would not risk their lives unless it was "absolutely necessary". Obama is a good politician and  keenly sensitive to the power of American public opinion. Previously Americans have been shielded from the bloody tragic futility of America's involvement in Afghanistan.Will angry public opinion bring the USA to their senses and force a repeat of the Vietnam withdrawal?. If...

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