Americans are ignorant for the most part and want the Insurance Companies at the table. If it were totally up to Obama, he would have done Single-Payer which is what I and anyone with a rational mind would support. Luckily, the younger generation seems to get that Single-Payer is the way to go and hopefully it will continue to progress towards that result.
I think Obama is doing the right thing regarding the troops. Its easy to speculate when you don`t have the intelligence and the classified information that Obama has access to. For someone like Obama to be so hard edged to terrorism means there is some serious and real threats behind the scenes.
With that said, Obama did end the Iraq war and did bring them home from that front.
Obama: 'The Taliban are Not Our Enemies and We Don't Want to Fight Them.'
front page ^ | 11/30/2009 | Daniel Greenfield
Posted on December 1, 2013 12:59:52 AM EST by Nachum
It’s one compulsive liar who hates America and supports terrorists quoting another one. But it seem plausible enough.
' Karzai confirmed that the Obama Administration actually told him that the Taliban, which provided al Qaeda its base of support for September 11, was not an enemy of the U.S. He said:
Last year, during my visit to Washington, in a very important briefing a day before I met U.S. President [Barack Obama], his national security adviser Tom Donilon, and senior White House officials, generals, and intelligence officials, the national security adviser met with me. He told me: “The Taliban are not our enemies and we don’t want to fight them.”
If Obama really believes that, and certainly his willingness to negotiate with the Taliban and to release high-ranking Taliban prisoners, without at least exchanging them for Sgt Bowe Bergdahl still being held in captivity, suggests he does, why are we still there?
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