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...speech was reasoned and academic—Obama took care to talk out the pros and cons of some of the more publicly discussed scenarios for future American military involvement. This motif hinted at the thoroughness of Obama??s months-long strategy review. Calls of “dithering” aside, the president rightly seems to have left no stone unturned. He approached the problem not only with an open mind but also with an eye to the longer-term consequences of every potential strategy, both for Afghanistan and the United States...
...Afghan strategy sounds familiar, that is because it draws heavily on the successful counterinsurgency tactics learned the hard way in Iraq. Regardless, since the start of Obama??s strategic review three months ago, a large number of Democrats in particular have been critical of any plan that involves moving from the status quo toward any more American involvement in Afghanistan. They seem to have forgotten that, during his presidential campaign, Obama stressed that Afghanistan was a battle worth fighting and one that should be a focus of any U.S. administration...
William R. Rose ’11, leader of the IOP survey program, said that the disconnect between the approval ratings of Obama??s job performance and his handling of specific issues may be a result of people agreeing with Obama??s general message as a whole but “feel[ing] frustrated because not much is getting done.” Rose used health care legislation as an example, referring to one of the bill’s amendments that would add more restrictions on abortions offered through insurance plans...
President-elect John F. Bowman ‘11 begins his behest, which feels like a pep-talk, by quoting Barack Obama??s acceptance speech, but adding his own twist to it—proclaiming that he and his running-mate will be “celebrating with a vengeance” tonight...
We’ve heard what the American critics have had to say about President Barack Obama??s speech on Tuesday night. On the left, critics voice concern that we are digging ourselves further into a very costly hole. On the right, the talking points were that the speech was insufficiently militant and that Obama failed to provide a sense of assured victory. But, then again, it’s hard to know exactly what the commentariat was looking for. Bill O’Reilly criticized that Tuesday’s speech “was no Gettysburg...