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Friday, December 4, 2009

Obama Adopts the Bush Doctrine

Posted by Jack Hunter on Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 7:36 AM

With his speech on our war in Afghanistan this week, the president who once preached “change” fully embraced his predecessor’s most dangerous idea: The Bush Doctrine. Describing this doctrine at West Point in 2001, said then President George W. Bush: “If we wait for threats to materialize, we will have waited too long. The war on terror will not be won on the defensive. We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worst threats before they emerge.”

At West Point eight years later—President Obama reaffirmed the Bush Doctrine.

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Topics: National Politics

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Before Obama became president he did say he was going to bring the focus of the war to Afganistan, to the people that were the actual responsible party for the 9/11 attacks.

Posted by friend2cptsolo on December 4, 2009 at 11:22 AM | Report this comment

Maybe it will be handy having those troops there when we invade Pakistan, since that seems to be where the bad guys are now.

Posted by Zeno of Citium on December 4, 2009 at 12:06 PM | Report this comment

Everyone should do a youtube search on Afghanistan. I think most would be surprised to see that 99% of those who aren't shooting at us (on our side), are drug addicts.

Posted by roadkill on December 8, 2009 at 7:14 AM | Report this comment

It's also interesting to note that, by several high ranking military officials' own admission, there are fewer than 100 Al-quada in the Pakistan-Afghanistan area. And that the Taliban's numbers grow because our bombs create converts. I wonder if they could successfully launch a military strike against us (because they did not have anything to do with 9/11, according to many, many experts)? I also wonder how many more private contractors are going to Afghanistan.

Posted by n66178 on December 16, 2009 at 11:29 AM | Report this comment

One funny thing that goes on among "stay the course" types is that they make a funny claim - "we have to fight them over there, so we don't have to fight them here".. If anything, this is quite accurately describes the naivety of American foreign policy.. as not one word in that statement is true.

It does not identify where "there" or who "them" is/are - and "we" fails to differentiate between the policy makers, the american people and US military personnel. Second, the assumption is that the enemy is a monolithic quasi-nation, has a home base, which the "we" are going to fight at.. so the second "we" - which is an entire people living within and outside a nation state - don't have to fight them.. apparently anywhere. Third, it has a naive assumption that the enemy will answer their front doors and fight the US troops "there", even if you find "them". All of which are quite absurd strategies based on how historically these "them"s have inflicted death and destruction.

You would think smart men, graduating from West Point and other esteemed institutions would figure this out...

Posted by Casimeirz on January 21, 2010 at 5:46 PM | Report this comment

I'm sure they have figured it out, just like the people at goldman sachs are extremely intelligent and knew what they were doing. It just gives them something to do to make money, so they keep doing. Kind of like the war on drugs, a complete failure yet it keeps a lot of people busy.

Posted by n66178 on January 22, 2010 at 11:37 AM | Report this comment

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The "Southern Avenger" Jack Hunter is a conservative commentator (WTMA 1250 AM talk radio) and columnist (Charleston City Paper) living in Charleston, South Carolina.