Viet-stan

General Stan McChrystal has told President Obama that he needs an additional 40,000 soldiers. If he doesn't get them, he says, "the conflict will likely result in failure". That makes the decision clear to me. Obama has only two choices; send the troops or get the hell out. There can be no middle ground here. If our top military man in the war gives the kind of report he did it would be almost criminal for the President to ignore it. Eight years is enough. We should know that trying to prop up a corrupt native government just does not work. All reports seem to be saying that the last election there was a fraud. The news reports are saying that the Taliban, while not in Kabul, have control over a larger majority of the country than they did before we invaded. Our major objective should be to get Osama bin-Laden and put al-Qaeda out of operation. We can do that without getting into nation building in an area of the world that does not want us.

I supported you Barack. I sent you money, voted for you and urged others to vote for you. I am also old enough to remember 1967 when I got drafted and the needless waste that war entailed. Get out of this quagmire now before it is too late. You only have two choices; send the troops or get out. I, for one, say get out.