Obama's plan: do shit smartly

Obama to Explore New Approach in Afghanistan War

The incoming Obama administration plans to explore a more regional strategy to the war in Afghanistan -- including possible talks with Iran -- and looks favorably on the nascent dialogue between the Afghan government and "reconcilable" elements of the Taliban, according to Obama national security advisers.

President-elect Barack Obama also intends to renew the U.S. commitment to the hunt for Osama bin Laden, a priority the president-elect believes President Bush has played down after years of failing to apprehend the al-Qaeda leader. Critical of Bush during the campaign for what he said was the president's extreme focus on Iraq at the expense of Afghanistan, Obama also intends to move ahead with a planned deployment of thousands of additional U.S. troops there.

Looking for bin Laden? I have it on very good authority that he was assassinated in early 2001, so he'd be sufficiently out of the picture while the CIA, the Bush family, and the Bilderburg Group enacted 9/11 with remote control planes to steal gold out of the WTC and blamed it on him. They've hired an actor to play the part of bin Laden ever since. RON PAUL 2012!!!

Aside from all that, it's nice to see him actually put a priority on fighting all those terrorists we never caught or killed or spent much time looking for after they murdered 3,000 Americans. And trying to rebuild and reconcile with Afghanistan, that seems like a good idea. Our policy there has been to plug our ears and promise that we'd take a look at their problems juuuust as soon as Iraq had moon bases. For serious. I almost don't know how to react. Someone doing the thing we should have done seven years ago instead of deciding to keep saying "hit me" in the geopolitical war on terror black jack game we're playing. We're already up to 60 or 70, 21 isn't going to come back around again. More troops, more NATO troops, enhanced US control, expanding the theater to to the Pakistan border, reconciliation, enhanced support for local and provincial governments, actually building the Afghan police, and an increased military and intelligence focus on OBL. I think we elected an adult.