Hard to tell if our Commander–in-Chief, a/k/a Barack Obama, a/k/a Dumbo is just lying or merely stupid, from Michael Hirsh, National Journal:
Bush’s carrier landing is mainly remembered today not because it was viewed as political exploitation, but because of how wrong the 43rd president turned out to be about his assessment of success. The mission wasn’t even close to accomplished, as Obama suggested in his speech. “In 2002, bin Laden and his lieutenants escaped across the border and established safe havens in Pakistan. America spent nearly eight years fighting a different war in Iraq,” Obama said. Then he added:”But over the last three years, the tide has turned.” (Read: since I came into office.) “We broke the Taliban’s momentum. We’ve built strong Afghan Security Forces. We devastated al-Qaida’s leadership, taking out over 20 of their top 30 leaders. And one year ago, from a base here in Afghanistan, our troops launched the operation that killed Osama bin Laden. The goal that I set – to defeat al-Qaida, and deny it a chance to rebuild – is within reach.”
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As the president himself acknowledged, the conflict may never be completely over. The new agreement with Karzai makes clear that U.S. funds and U.S. trainers and counter-terrorism forces will be deployed in Afghanistan for at least another decade to come. And many experts on the ground say the readiness of Afghan forces has been overestimated, just as the corruption of Karzai’s government and its lack of support inside the country tend to be underestimated.
So what, if anything, has Dumbo ended? Be proclaims the end of the war is in sight, but that our troops are not going anywhere. soon.
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