1) Obama is about to settle Afghanistan with diplomacy - giving the taleban a voice in the govt (as cheney/bush recommended mind you). Al-Q is dead... headhunter even confirms that. he'll give them a voice, they put down guns. Russia should have done it - and Bush said we'd do it. This is why the pentagon is pissed - O is giving signs he wants peace without a surge and 150k permanent troops (the way Bush ended iraq... permant occupancy)
2) Maybe Obama can prevent iran nukes, either thru sanctions or precision strikes which limit their ability to F up the region with nukes, keeping the region safer.
3) Maybe obama can scale back world nuke stockpiles....
If he does any of these - he deserves it. If he doesn't, then he doesn't. Now, please, brush your teeth and get my name out of your dental. it's looking sad that you mention me in every other post dude.
1) You don't know what you are talking about, the Taliban are not going to lay down their arms and play nice with everyone else. The are hard line Islamist, sure they may play the game until NATO leaves but I can fucking guarantee as soon as the threat is gone Afghanistan will return to it's pre 9/11 self. Afghanistan is completely tribal, they have no alegence to the central government, they do what is best for their sect end of story. The only way a central government can control the country is through ruthless dictatorship thus the Taliban.
2) The POTUS is not going to attack Iran, he is to worried about public/world opinion, if anything he is going to turn a blind eye a let Isreal do it, which is going to start a giant shit storm in the ME.
3) How? You seem to think you can negoatiate and trust illogical dictators to follow through? What's going to happen? The IAEA is going to do nothing as usual accept complain and pass toothless UN resolutions with harsher and harsher language until the looneys finally nuke someone.
AL Queda is not dead they are just biding their time in the border regions of Afghanistan/ Pakistan.
I don't know what gives you the impression that somehow Barack Obama can just change the nature of people simply with his presence. You need to understand something about the ME they respect strenght, they see negotiation as a sign of weekness, no matter what dog and pony show that but on for the international media.
