Under the Obama administration the U.S. foreign policy has changed. It has become less about nation-building and more about keeping out al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Our primary goal is to prevent Afghanistan from being used as a base for terrorists and extremists to attack the United States and our allies. And whatever else we need to do flows from that objective," Robert Gates told lawmakers. Obama is going to focus more on Afghanistan and Pakistan than Iraq to fight the war on terror. I don't know how his plan will work out, but considering Bush's plan hasn't worked maybe changing the focus will help.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Afghanistan 'top priority' for US
Under the Obama administration the U.S. foreign policy has changed. It has become less about nation-building and more about keeping out al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Our primary goal is to prevent Afghanistan from being used as a base for terrorists and extremists to attack the United States and our allies. And whatever else we need to do flows from that objective," Robert Gates told lawmakers. Obama is going to focus more on Afghanistan and Pakistan than Iraq to fight the war on terror. I don't know how his plan will work out, but considering Bush's plan hasn't worked maybe changing the focus will help.
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okay, shouldn't this have been our plan all along. I mean, helping a nation develop is a nice thing to do, but that shouldn't have been our top priority, I guess I think that the way this is going now is the way it should have gone all along, and the way it has been going on should have just been a side note or something like that.
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