Matthew Henderson
11/30/2009
President Obama’s upcoming decision regarding strategy in the war in Afghanistan is a very trying one. He is expected to announce that they will be sending more troops in and point out that we have found a clear path to success. The speech will cap many weeks of deliberation and meetings with his war council. The conservatives have criticized this lingering because they say that it has made the troops uneasy and given the Taliban a higher morale. The American people are becoming more and more against the war every day. This makes Obama’s goal this evening even harder to achieve. He has to let everyone know why we are still in this war and why NATO should stand fast to him and his decision.
I think that continuing to send more troops to Afghanistan is a mistake. I feel like the President is letting the conservatives and the military leaders persuade him to keep going in Afghanistan. I don’t think that there is anything to be gained from continuing to fight. We are only going to lose more lives and money. Einstein said that great spirits often encounter violent opposition from mediocre minds. I feel like Obama is a great spirit but I think that he isn’t handling the mediocre minds as well as he could. I hope that he is not giving into them no matter what the reason. One thing that is subtly pointed out by Einstein in that quote is that violence is for the weak minded. We should not be at war.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/28/obamas-challenge-convincing-skeptics-finish-job-afghanistan/
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