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In reply to the discussion: I'm curious...who here thinks they or anyone else, could have accomplished more than PBO [View all]Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)She is so disgusted over the war not being ended that she is yelling at anyone that calls her for donations for Democrats. I am against the war too but reminded her that Obama had taken troops out and that this time at least we weren't sending troops in (yes, I recognize that their is debate over that). Obama is a hell of a lot better than Bush was.
And as easy as it is for us to sit back and decide what the best policy would be without being privy to all the intelligence (or un-intelligence, as the case may be), he is subject to it and must face anything that happens due to his decision to act or not act on it.
And, he can't undo what previous administration already have done. So, he may still well believe that we never should have gone in to Iraq but we did and are now suffering the consequences of that action.
I still think it would be better to acknowledge we made big mistakes and withdraw from the middle east completely but that would be political suicide.