[Peace-discuss] Team Obama Divided, Public Strongly Opposed, to More Troops in Afghanistan

[C. G. Estabrook]

"...Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. ... has expressed deep reservations about 
an expanded presence in Afghanistan on the grounds that it may distract from ... 
the more urgent goal of stabilizing Pakistan..."

Just as Obama argued that during the campaign that "an expanded presence in Iraq 
distracted from the more urgent goal of stabilizing Afghanistan," which he 
called "the central front in the war on terror."

The Deep Thinkers have determined that the real threat to US hegemony in the 
Mideast comes from Pakistan.  (See. e.g., George Will, and Stephen Biddle 
<http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/09/01/the-ghost-of-911/>.)

So Obama Moves East. It would be better to stop the war by stopping the money, 
which doesn't even take a majority in Congress.


Robert Naiman wrote:
> Top officials of the Obama Administration are divided on the expected
> request of the Pentagon for more troops in Afghanistan, the New York
> Times reports today. Leading the opposition is Vice-President Biden.
> Biden has the wind of public opinion at his back. McClatchy News
> reports that 56% of Americans oppose sending any more combat troops to
> Afghanistan, with 35% in favor. Women oppose sending more troops by
> the lopsided margin of 60-30. The first step to ending this war is
> stopping its escalation.
> 
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/team-obama-divided-public_b_277487.html
> 
> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/9/4/12917/34949
> 
> http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/321
> 
> --
> Robert Naiman
> Just Foreign Policy
> www.justforeignpolicy.org
> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
> 
> Senator Feingold Calls for Timetable for U.S. Troop Withdrawal from Afghanistan
> http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/exit-afghanistan
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