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"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson
"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."
- Thomas Jefferson
You say that but all presidents seem to take similar approaches to foreign policy once they get the "security briefing." I call it the big boy talk, the one where the newly elected president discovers just how little power they really have.
Kind of like how Obama was going to leave Iraq and Afghanistan that same year...
It is easy to talk like that but once you are privy to all the info things seem to change...
Not quite sure what you're referring to here - Obama never promised to end the war in Afganistan when he was running for President.
Unforced error on my part. He actually vowed the opposite. Iraq is what I was thinking and that ended up including Afghanistan for some unknown reason.
In all fairness, when Obama promised to re-assess the situation in Afganistan during his first year, some of the peaceniks took it to mean he would pull out the troops. When that didn't happen the far left reacted as if he went back on a promise; which he never made.
I doubt pulling out was ever on the table to begin with.