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<br> President Obama had a splendid opportunity to end the wars. <br>Whether by declaring them flawed victories or tragic mistakes, he <br>could have withdrawn from Bush's foolish invasions.<br><br> By sending more troops to fight and die for no good reason, <br>Obama makes the war his own and commits himself for the rest of <br>his term. 18 months from now with a thousand more Americans <br>dead and surely tens of thousands of Afghans and Iraqis, will Obama <br>admit his own tragic mistake? Doubtless he will press on in the vain <br>hope that throwing away more lives will redeem those already spent.<br><br> In eight years we've been unable to train the Afghans to provide <br>for their own security. Why think we can do it now? The corruption<br>and incompetence of our Afghan allies brook comparison with that of<br>our allies in Vietnam forty years ago.<br><br> We complicate the issue when we take responsibility for protecting <br>the women of Afghanistan from the men of Afghanistan. Policing human <br>rights violations is a job for the United Nations--not for the United States, <br>with its numerous conflicts of interest in prosecuting the war that belie <br>any claimed concerns for human rights. <br><br> Bush's invasion of Iraq was an illegal aggressive war against a country <br>that was no threat to us. Afghanistan was too, though in post-9/11 <br>hysteria this went unrecognized. Taliban had offered to turn over Osama <br>if we showed evidence of his guilt. Obama could have washed his hands <br>of Bush's criminal blunders. In continuing them he has condoned them <br>and made them his own.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> <br><hr>Get gifts for them and cashback for you. <a href="http://www.bing.com/shopping/search?q=xbox+games&scope=cashback&form=MSHYCB&publ=WLHMTAG&crea=TEXT_MSHYCB_Shopping_Giftsforthem_cashback_1x1">Try Bing now.</a> <br /><hr />Get gifts for them and cashback for you. <a href='http://www.bing.com/shopping/search?q=xbox+games&scope=cashback&form=MSHYCB&publ=WLHMTAG&crea=TEXT_MSHYCB_Shopping_Giftsforthem_cashback_1x1' target='_new'>Try Bing now.</a></body>
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