12-01-2016, 10:23 AM
(12-01-2016, 09:19 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:(12-01-2016, 07:51 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: Thus, the Obama / Hillary policy of getting the boys home, of avoiding occupation forces, of reducing the number of boots on the ground is the exact opposite of the original Republican neocon doctrine: serial unilateral preemptive nation building.
This isn't accurate, though, at least as applied to "the last 8 years". Bush was beginning to draw down forces in Iraq when he left office; Obama redirected those forces into a massive buildup in Afghanistan. It wasn't until Clinton was no longer Secretary of State that we left Afghanistan.
True enough. The neo-con doctrine, though, was troops near the oil, which is Iraq. Afghanistan was more about fighting factions that export terror. The Democrats in my opinion stuck with troops on the ground too long in Afghanistan, but Obama seems reluctant to concede Afghanistan to the Taliban.
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