What Obama has said over and over is that in taking our eye off the real threat in Afganistan and invading Iraq we have left our country more vulnerable, not less...

On a recent book by journalist Ahmed Rashid entitiled "Descent into Chaos" he says that if the US had stayed focused and used a fraction of the resources that it is spending in Iraq that "Afganistan could have been turned around in 5 years. Instead, the Taliban has resurged."

Iraq has been a complete and utter failure from every perspective...

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