“I think Americans have learned that it’s harder to end wars than it is to begin them.”

No, Mr. President it is not. What is hard is to say no to the military industrial complex and all those warmongers on Capitol Hill.

Just ONCE, I would like to hear a US president say those words. And mean it.

The Afghans are going to have to sort this out for themselves, just like the people who live in the former Ottoman Empire.

No matter when we leave, the result will be the same, so we might as well leave now.

Bin Laden is dead, GM is alive, and we have the ACA (for now). But a big reason that I voted for Obama was because I thought that he was going to keep us out of unwinnable wars. This is very disappointing.

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Of course he extends the US role in the Afghan conflict. Just as he has continued and expanded virtually every other major Bush war, economic, and police state policy.

One party, two faces.

We have united oligarchy, not gridlocked democracy. That's what the Princeton study revealed. Our form of government has changed. So much corporate money floods Washington now that the people have no influence on policy at all. We are ruled by an obscenely wealthy elite and their purchased corporate politicians in both parties.

We need to rally on policies, not party. No more corporate sellouts regardless of party. No more Third Way vultures in Democrat suits. No more lesser of two evils.

We need to become the 99 percent and stand against this garbage. We need to stop playing their manipulative partisan "lesser of two evils" game and rally behind someone like Bernie who recognizes and vows to fight to reverse what has been done to this formerly democratic nation.

Thank you for your posts. Your focus in post after post is spot on.
Keep it up, it helps in every kind of way.

2009-13 we ignored Iraq for Afghanistan, now we're ignoring Afghanistan for Iraq again