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Originally Posted by Derwood
Yes, Ace, I don't know what I would do. I don't sit here in Ohio and pretend that after watching CNN and reading a few news articles a week that I have even the slightest notion of what is really going on in Afghanistan. I also don't pretend that I, as a person with zero training or education in military, political science or Middle Eastern history, am a person who can even begin to formulate such decisions.
You can frame me as "indecisive", but I prefer "realist".
Do you often make decisions about things when you have very little information?
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I am simply surprised by the tone of your answer. I appreciate the issues involving being in a position of not having "perfect" information or to not be the expert who develops the minute details to execute a strategy, but to suggest that you are not capable of deciding general priorities, goals, objects, and directives to those who are the experts seems to be a cop out. I am not a carpenter or an architect but I could get a house built. Your tone suggests that you can not. Perhaps I give people too much credit.
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Originally Posted by dippin
the potential implications for American security of a missile with a 290 kilometer range developed by India and Russia? And why we need a "tough" president because of that missile? Really?
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It is getting boring connecting the dots for you folks. If it ain't an issue for you and Obama - I got it. Let's just say I disagree.
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US President Barack Obama’s decision not to deploy a missile defense system in central Europe has received decidedly mixed reviews in Europe. Although newspapers and magazines across the continent have published editorials generally coming out in favor of Obama’s pronouncement, nearly all of them have also expressed deep skepticism that Obama’s so-called strategy of engagement with Russia will bear much fruit.
Indeed, a consistent theme running through European commentary has been bafflement that Obama would abandon the missile defense system without receiving anything from Russia in return. A number of commentators have raised the issue of Obama’s lack of experience in statecraft. In Britain, for example, the Daily Telegraph published an editorial titled: “Barack Obama is Gambling with Europe’s Security.” Another article is titled: “President Barack Obama is beginning to look out of his depth.” It says: “His credibility is seeping away, and it will require concrete achievements rather than more soaring oratory to recover it.”
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Europeans Ambivalent about Obama?s Retreat on Missile Defense | The Brussels Journal
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Originally Posted by silent_jay
Secondary front? What happened to "we're gonna smoke him out"? "Dead or alive"? Remember that guy names Usama?
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He became a non-issue a long, long time ago. I actually think him being alive and hiding in caves like the coward he is, is better than him dead and considered a martyr.