Last night, this President said (by this decision) that doing what he thought was the most moral thing (for the people Bush ruined) was more important than a second term.
And this morning every pundit shit on him. That coward Cheney did it a day early.
This did the President no good in the polls. It could cost him a second term. He knows that. The easy way out, the best for "his numbers" was to pull out. I couldn't believe he sent troops in, not because I hate war, but because I know it was the last thing on earth he wanted to do. I watched Rachel Maddow last night. She went back and forth, saying that he did what he had to do, that he shouldn't have done it. It was hard for her.
But she had one man on near the end, I didn't get his name, but she clearly knew and respected him, and he said the President had no choice. And there is something we are all forgetting, and Rachel missed this I think...
It is an absolute fact, no one can dispute it, that terrorists are planning every day. They can to get to us right now. It's easy and we know it. They may only kill a hundred people in a subway but that is like a "10" earthquake throughout America right now. They are bombing someone somewhere several times a year. It is a serious threat. We don't need, and cannot handle another 9/11. But we also cannot live in Bush "red light when I want to scare you" land forever.
The thing that many people forget is that the President gets briefings everyday that say things like "these 20 people just joined a group from Afghanistan that supplies terrorists. Their communications indicate that their target is a bridge in San Francisco". I think the President is doing what he can to make a very unstable situation stable, then he is saying "we can never make it perfect" so we are leaving.
I don't think he can just pull out knowing that the locals are left to die, they will be mad and kill as many as possible, and we may lose 100/1000 soldiers just because they are leaving. Basically Bush shit on the country and left the people to clean it up. Then he sent a few troops. We made it as unstable as we could and then left. It is only fair that we attempt to restore order and then leave.
They set a SCHOOL in their own country on fire recently. They set women on FIRE. We have to try to help stop that, as much as we can in a year or two and then go.
The President did not say "we are going there to kill as many as possible". He said we are going to help as many has possible.
A big question was "how do we stop terrorists when we can't go into Pakistan". We can't, but maybe the Afgans can, if we can help them get their situation more stable.
This way he gave it our best chance and then it's time to go. He could have taken the easy way out for his polling and pulled everyone out. Instead he took the hit. The man stood up and took the political hit for us.