Obama won't even call it a "war", he refuses to name the enemy we're at war with, we have ridiculous rules of engagement like no bombing on religious holidays, or the bombing of a mosque, even if a whole army of Al Qaida are inside.Obama is continuing the failed war policies of Bush in Afghanistan and Iraq. If you’re wondering what President Barack Obama said about foreign policy in his State of the Union speech, there’s an extremely good chance you already heard it many times, in many cases word for word, and with fewer pauses for laudatory applause from the peanut gallery.
He once again claimed combat was over in Iraq, despite the number of US troops who have died in combat since he last made that announcement.
He lauded the Afghan War and the “enduring partnership” it was creating. Perhaps the only interesting thing, and I say this only for desperation to find something, is that he insisted troops would begin to withdraw from Afghanistan in July.
Of course, he announced the July drawdown in December, and the comments seem to be taken largely from that, but it seems that his speechwriters forget that he publicly disavowed the July 2011 drawdown date in June, and several more times since then.
Ultimately the speech was over an hour of vague references to the future and jokes about TSA patdowns, which were extremely funny to the Congressmen on hand, since they of course are exempt from those!
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