Obama: ‘No Afghanistan drawdown’

And to be fair his exact wording is “precipitous drawdown”.

Precipitous. Nice adjective. Meaning ‘Steep drop-off over an adge, or perpendicular 90 degree drop.’ Like falling off a cliff. So his choice of words impresses that leaving Afghanistan all at once would be like ‘falling off a cliff‘.

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Obama will not rush Afghan troop drawdown

By Ross Colvin Ross Colvin – Thu Dec 10, 6:53 pm ET

OSLO (Reuters) – There will be no “precipitous drawdown” of U.S. forces in Afghanistan and U.S. troops could still be in the country for years to come, President Barack Obama said on Thursday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091210/ts_nm/us_obama_afghanistan

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The antonym of precipitous would be GRADUAL. So a ‘gradual’ drawdown can take – in Obama’s own words- ‘years’. Taking a quick look back at recent history, this echos the infamous words of Senator John McCain concerning our occupation in the Middle East: ‘We [could be there] for 100 years’.

As stated in my previous blog entry, Obama is taking a surprisingly similar stance as his predecessor on the timeline for Iraq and Afghanistan.

I can think of another word for this:

STALLING.

Obama V. Ideal Obama – by Tom Tomorrow

I respect Tom Tomorrow’s insightful views as a political cartoonist. And he is just damn funny!

His take on President Obama and ‘Ideal’ Obama is spot-on.

See? See how this joke works? Here we have TWO Obama’s – the one we WANT and hope for, and the one we actually HAVE.  And Americans have chosen to mentally cling to the Idea of Obama, but refuse the Reality of Obama…  Haaa! Good stuff. There’s more….

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Still waiting on that Change….

-Jay