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Edited on Wed Dec-30-09 11:44 AM by Kurt_and_Hunter
Love it or hate it, the fact is that we are more militarily engaged today than under Bush/Cheney in 2008.
Afghanistan? Obama has increased our commitment there 400-500%.
Pakistan? Drone attacks are up. Reports of cross-border special ops incursions.
Yemen? We blew up bunches of people there quite recently. Probably have CIA on the ground.
Somalia? We shot some pirates and have blown up a number of folks.
Secretary of Defense? It's the same guy!
Iraq? A wash... Obama's Iraq withdrawal plan is essentially the same as Bush's Iraq withdrawal plan. (In late 2008 Bush quietly signed onto ending the Iraq war while no one was paying attemntion because by that point the timetable was being set by Iraq, not us. Which was one good reason to retain Gates... he was already working on roughly the same withdrawal plan.)
Iran? Another wash, militarily... Obama won't bomb Iran, but George W. Bush didn't either. Since Cheney couldn't even convince the chimp to bomb Iran it's a weird thing to fault Obama for.
The notable War on Terror metric that has decreased under Obama is torture. (Hence Cheney's ire.)
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