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Afghanistan: The Right’s Alternate Reality
It’s a good thing that Republicans are so appalled at Obama’s decision to send 34,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. After all, it’s smaller not as big as insignificant compared to significantly larger than the Bush surge of 21,000 troops in Iraq.
Maybe they’ll have the chance to fix it someday. After all, as Dick Cheney reminded us today, it’s not like it’s their fault or anything.
In a 90-minute interview at his suburban Washington house, Cheney said the president’s “agonizing” about Afghanistan strategy “has consequences for your forces in the field.”
“I begin to get nervous when I see the commander in chief making decisions apparently for what I would describe as small ‘p’ political reasons, where he’s trying to balance off different competing groups in society,” Cheney said.
“Every time he delays, defers, debates, changes his position, it begins to raise questions: Is the commander in chief really behind what they’ve been asked to do?”
. . .But Cheney rejected any suggestion that Obama had to decide on a new strategy for Afghanistan because the one employed by the previous administration failed.
Cheney was asked if he thinks the Bush administration bears any responsibility for the disintegration of Afghanistan because of the attention and resources that were diverted to Iraq. “I basically don’t,” he replied without elaborating.
These guys really have entered an Orwellian alternate reality, where torture is the rule of law and failure is success.
Vote Republican — it’s all for the double plus good.
Photo: Two guys who have absolutely no responsibility for the mess in Afghanistan. Really. We swear. Via Wikipedia
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