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Will Obama follow up on Afghanistan pledge?
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Oct. 12, 2009 12:16 am
Pakistan has a right to be upset with the Obama people and Democrats. They criticized Pakistan for failure to deal with the terrorists. Now that they are doing it, the Obama government is failing to uphold its part.
Pakistan is attacking and forcing the terrorists from their country and allowing us to attack them. The head generals of Afghanistan and NATO want more troops to deal with the terrorists forced out of Pakistan. President Obama has been sitting on his hands until the general went public to force the politicians to take action. We are doing exactly what Pakistan was criticized for doing - allowing the terrorists to exist in our area without enough troops to take them out.
How long do you think Pakistan will go after the terrorists, only for us to allow them to stay in Afghanistan? Is this another case where the Obama crowd is not willing to do what they claimed they would do?
Larry Conrad
Walker
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