Obama’s policy advisor seems to think that a surge of troops will make little difference; yet, Obama has called for sending 7,000 more troops to Afghanistan, and shifting the focus from what he terms as Bush’s “single-minded” focus on Iraq.

We have 36,000 troops in Afghanistan; 1/4 of the number we have in Iraq, but news reports are using the fact that more have been killed in Afghanistan than Iraq in May and June.

“I don’t think decreasing or increasing troop numbers is going to yield a long-term stability here or peace,” Matt Waldman, policy adviser to Oxfam International, one of the largest development agencies in Afghanistan, told Reuters.

More effective aid, support for rural development and working on peace and conflict resolution at a local level are the real priorities, Waldman said.

Well of course Waldman would say that; his BUSINESS is “development”, so for him, rural development and peace and conflict resolution; the socialist view; is the focus.

Forget the fact that the Taliban terrorists are back to intimidating, threatening and beheading people. Could this be due to Karzai making a big deal out of ‘forgiving’ and releasing Taliban and Al Q rapists and murderers from prisons such as Pulacharke???

What good is sending troops over there if they’re not allowed to shoot at terrorists until they’re attacked first? This is setting our guys up to be sitting ducks.

I am against our sending more troops to Afghanistan under the current conditions; the rules they are forced to abide by are ridiculous.

Reuters article Afghans call for new strategy as Obama visits

Of course the Afghans are calling for a new strategy - they don’t want us to fight and win against the Taliban and Al Q, they want us to continue sending billions of dollars over there, which never serves its intended purpose. I gather Karzai is lining his pockets with a lot of that ‘humanitarian aid’.

Terrorist organizations, and unscrupulous individuals including socialists and communists (such as George Galloway), use humanitarian aid money for their own ends.

This is one of the reasons that Saddam’s pockets were bulging with Oil for Food money.

There is a similarity between Saddam’s Iraq and Karzai’s Afghanistan, although Saddam was not a dual citizen like Karzai is. Reportedly, Karzai before he was propped by the American government as their candidate in Afghanistan, was chopping tomatoes in his brother’s restaurant in Maryland. He has an 8th grade education and is no more qualified to run that country than my dog, although he IS a snappy dresser.

Why Obama wants to divert resources to Afghanistan is a complete mystery to me, when he doesn’t believe in the military’s ability to accomplish anything - he comes from the ‘peace and conflict studies’ line of thinking, and that ‘war is not the answer’.