Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Obama about to enter long line of great historical blunderers

Barack Obama on Tuesday makes a globally awaited address on his new Afghan war plan and big troop surge strategy, shouldering the most perilous burden yet of a presidency defined by crises.

Huge military and diplomatic stakes, a grave warning by the US commander that the war could be lost, and his own increasingly vulnerable political position demand a bravura Obama performance after months of deliberations.


Hardly a "bravura" performance, more like a revival of the past blunders of the British, the Russians...

Hope is Futile.

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