July 4, 2011
"By finishing nothing the President has continued everything."
Belmont Club » The Return of RealityPresident Obama had been counting on a peace dividend. In announcing "a reduction of 33,000 troops in Afghanistan by September 2012, [the President] said it was 'a time to focus on nation-building at home' ." CBS News said it reflected the reality that "we just don't have the money anymore." But given the actual expansion of the War on Terror under the Obama administration -- an expansion in which there was never the closure of victory, only the continuation of mission creep -- the commitments have expanded rather than diminished. The potential costs are not falling, they are inexorably rising. By finishing nothing the President has continued everything. Now in the Summer of 2011 the administration it is facing the cumulative effects of its mistakes. It has turned the page not on the epilog, but on the prolog.
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