Obama and US history in Afghanistan-1/5

Obama's War: US Involvement in Afghanistan, Past, Present & Future

President Obama is speaking before a joint session of Congress Tuesday night in what is being described as the first State of the Union address of his presidency. While the economy is expected to dominate the agenda, Obama will also talk about his top foreign policy initiative: the war in Afghanistan. Last week, Obama ordered an additional 17,000 US combat troops to Afghanistan. The new deployments will begin in May and increase the US occupation force to 55,000. Today, we spend the hour looking at US involvement in Afghanistan with five guests: Anand Gopal, Afghanistan correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor; Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould, authors of Invisible History: Afghanistans Untold Story; Gilles Dorronsoro, visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and documentary filmmaker Kathleen Foster. [includes rush transcript]

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[callieland]

hey! what da ya know? an army general is delighted with having more soldiers.....shocks the shit outta me. oh and btw, obama's changed his mind from pulling all troops out of iraq on day1 of his adminsistration TO maybe starting to pull them out in 2 years and then only taking half of them out with a residual force remaining around 50,000 troops. my brother just came from iraq and he told me that based on the cathedral-like buildings the u.s. has built, he doesnt think they will ever leave.

[AbtinX]

true that, just like the soviets, but how many afghans will have to pay the price you know

[faridjanah]

Why we are always talking about Obama decision or intention, America is ruled by the corporate bodies, anyone who, co-operate and collaberate with these group, he or she can simply become a president of America without being a clever or stupid person. In my opinion America need structrual changes not just through demonstrating on the street but through force. People must bring change and not these crooks who says we can change. They are lying.

[1OnEKinE]

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[slovakmath]

@epicurean05 are you kidding, they (the jew bankers and lobbyists) know exactly what they are doing

[Anntari]

if this keeps up there will be nothing left in them countries to fight about....

[Machinu5]

@khanei23 That was elegant. Dislike.

[khanei23]

this wars about heroin, dats all, you sontroll isreal, you controll druggs, oil, dim,onds, gold, rubies, purls, prostitution and evrything else, wots speacial about isreal, they call it the holy land, wots their religion, money, money is their religion, your fighting for their controll, they dont giv a fuk about you people dieing, wot you dieing for, wots their reason, dont forget, your in thier land, their country, their homes, their areas, your attacking themm, use your fukin eyes, wake up

[khanei23]

obama you devil cock sucking mother fuker fake black wana be bastad, go fuk your cuzans, madonna, queen of england, g.w.bush angelina jolie, thers fuking loads of them, ther all 1 famly trying to controll the world, go shuvv your new world order up your mothers ass, afghanistan will never ever ever ever be taken over, yu take the world their, god will sent his unseen creation to finish all you fukers off, long live afghanistan, iraq and other muslim countrys, pakistan go fuk yourselfs, sell out

[undeadpresident]

It's not really democracy unless the United States can buy the elections with their CIA drug money.