Tonight is why I voted for him. [View All]

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He understands there is no quick fix. And no walking away from something we helped completely fuck up.

He is willing to do this difficult thing. Or at least try.

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I think it's too late, though. I think we are too far down the extremist partisan shithole (on both sides of the isle) to recover any decent sense of national self, any healthy national identity.

Too far gone to understand when some sacrifice is necessary, some commitments need to be fulfilled, and there are places and situations in this world that cannot be taken back to Customer Service for a refund like a pair of jeans that makes our ass look big.


This is a crying shame as far as I'm concerned: In spite of one year of his best effort to stop a worldwide financial collapse, extract us from Iraq, and now finish the job - yes I said it - by giving the country we've been tearing apart for 8 years JUST two years of real effort towards some kind of stability, some kind of future without becoming a total narco state, or another Somalia, that he is reviled like the men that started this fucked, fucking adventure.

It's disgusting.


Let's get something straight:

I hate this war. I hate these fucking wars with the same fury I that hated the war in VietNam.

I know what the price is for these kinds of adventures. But I know the prices others will pay if we just walk away, too.


I hate this war but I cannot advocate leaving these people to their own devices after COMPLETELY destroying their 9th century infrastructure.

And that is the ONLY reason I back the President in this. We have to leave them something other than weapons and the greatest narcotics business in the world.

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If we turn our backs on what we allowed to fester in place for 8 years, if we walk away without at least TRYING to set right what the NEOCONS 'achieved', then there is little hope for us, I think.

It means that we have no more honor, we have no business in the affairs of the world of any import. That our word is no fucking good.

I would hope that at this late date we are better than that, that some things are worth the debt, the effort, the blood. That maybe we CAN leave things better than the NEOCONS left them when they left town in the middle of the night like the sociopathic carpetbaggers they are.

We, as Democrats, are supposed to be different than that.

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This latest gambit will likely fail. Afghanistan is by all available evidence the Sword of Damocles wrapped in a Gordian knot.

We as a country are too broke, and as a people are unwilling to serve any interest but our own, most of the time.

But we do have to TRY to set this right. We have to.

Or the sacrifice of every soldier who died is a waste, every civilian in Afghanistan who believed in us has to become an acceptable casualty when we are gone.

And that we are not to be trusted to serve any interest but our own capricious adventures, Our own immediate self interest.

Even at this late date I cannot believe that is we have degenerated that far.

And if we have, we are just like the fucking NEOCONS:

We'll fuck your shit up and then leave town. Just like they did with the economy, New Orleans, both Iraq and Afghanistan.