Where the war is leading us.

From the Austin American Statesman commentary page, Ruben Navarette Jr. of the San Diego Union-Tribune remarks, "You can place a top general in Afghanistan, but you can't tell him what to think." Arguing that Pres. Obama has refused to listen to Gen. McChrystal's request for 45,000 additional troops in Afghanistan. The Administration isn't ready to consider that option.

Posted on September 27, Navarette:Where the war is leading us, tells us that Pres. Obama has refused to make a decision on what to do in Afghanistan and hasn't given Gen. McChrystal the tools he needs to do what is necessary. The author's intended audience is right wing conservatives who are dissatisfied with the way things in Afghanistan are being dealt with. He says that Pres. Obama's own arguments about what to do aren't really persuasive either, and then gives us an example to prove this argument. He then tells us that this has nothing to do with the Afghan elections, it has to do with politics here at home. He states that according to "a CNN/Opinon Research poll, researchers found that only 39 percent of Americans favor the war — an all-time low — and 58 percent are opposed to it." He then goes on to say that McChrystal doesn't understand why Pres. Obama said that Afghanistan is a war of necessity, if he won't supply them with the tools to do what is necessary.

I really don't understand why we're still there in the first place. I say we just leave, I don't even think we should be there. Americans aren't gonna be safe just because we "won" this war, it's just gonna make even more people hate America. I say we focus on real problems here before we worry about other nations. Afghanistan doesn't even pose an attack on us, it's Al-Qaeda and not Afghanistan as a whole. What we need to do is worry about the Health Care Crisis and not about how we're gonna "win" a war that doesn't even need to be won.