» Afghanistan</h1> <article> <h1>Obama Tries to Jump on the Bandwagon…and Fails</h1> <p>Justin — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:37:00 +0000</p> <div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.skewz.com/link/submit_link?url=http://www.conservativelayman.com/2008/07/obama-tries-to-jump-on-bandwagonand.html" target="_blank" title="Skewz This!"><br /> <br /> </a></div> <blockquote><p><span style="font-size:130%;">Afghanistan Doesn’t Need a ‘Surge’</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">By ANN MARLOWE</span></p> <p>Afghanistan needs many things, but two more brigades of U.S. troops are not among them.</p> <p>Barack Obama said: “We need more troops, more helicopters, better intelligence-gathering and more nonmilitary assistance to accomplish the mission there.” Mr. Obama should have supported the surge in Iraq, but that doesn’t mean that advocating one in Afghanistan makes sense.</p> <p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121668659664272147.html?mod=djemEditorialPage" target="_blank"><strong>Article Continues…</strong></a> (Wall Street Journal)</p></blockquote> <p>The jury is still out on whether a surge would work in Aghanistan. However, I find it quite funny that the guy who opposed the surge in Iraq is now trying to promote one in Afghanistan <span style="font-weight:bold;">just so he can say he supported it!</span></p> <p> <div><script type='text/javascript'>addthis_url='<http://www.conservativelayman.com/2008/07/obama-tries-to-jump-on-bandwagonand.html>'; addthis_title='<obama Tries to Jump on the Bandwagon...and Fails>'; addthis_pub='iitb';</script><script src='http://s7.addthis.com/js/addthis_widget.php?v=12' type='text/javascript'></script></div> <p></p> </article> </main></body></html>