Monday, August 31, 2009

Financial Times calls Afghanistan: Obama's War

The war in Afghanistan has gotten deadlier. Casualties there are mounting – this has been the deadliest month for US forces since the fighting began in 2001. .........

The issue has not yet come to the boil but Mr Obama’s position is as difficult as it could possibly be. This is now his war. He asserted ownership again only recently, calling the conflict for the hundredth time “a necessary war”, unlike his predecessor’s supposedly needless “war of choice” in Iraq.

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