Another legacy of the Bush / Cheney administration: the ongoing mess in Pakistan and Afghanistan. By choosing to fight a war in Iraq instead of attacking the guys who brought down the World Trade Center - Bin Laden and his supporters in the Taliban - we now face a holy war in Pakistan and Afghanistan - them against us - and we're facing forces that have grown far stronger in spite of our spending billions of dollars there over the past eight years.
This is yet another giant, complex mess that President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton is trying to tackle. While I have little understanding here, I remain concerned by the deployment of American troops into a giant quagmire in a part of the world that has historically caused great armies and powers to fail. And be mindful that the military industrial establishment benefits in a destabilized world. So those guys are going to be delighted by these new troop commitments and a new war to fight.
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