Is Afghanistan Another Vietnam That Could Destroy Obama Presidency?

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    • The president needs to pick a side. He either needs to go all out and try to win this war by doing whatever his generals propose (the George Dubya Bush strategy) or declare victory and begin to decrease troop levels until we eventually leave the country (the Nixon strategy). If he does neither, Afghanistan will become another Vietnam (and Obama another Lyndon B. Johnson). /// Obama also should look into History: Russophobes in Past US Govts responsible for Wars in Afghanistan and for Creation of Al Qaeda Russophobes in Past US Administrations are responsible for the current situation in Afghanistan. The Bush administration claimed to be targeting Osama bin Laden, who it says masterminded the September 11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon (even though it has offered no concrete evidence to back up this accusation), and Afghanistan's Taliban government, which is sheltering him. But as the Economist magazine noted soon after September 11, " Anti-russian policies of US government in Afghanistan a decade and more ago helped to create both Osama bin Laden and the fundamentalist Taliban regime that shelters him." An examination of this history will reveal the extent to which US foreign policy is based on hypocrisy, realpolitik, and the short-term pursuit of narrow interests. Since the late 1970s Afghanistan has suffered continuous and brutal civil war between secular government in Kabul and Afghan Mujahideen (holy warriors) in the countryside. The <b>...</b>
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