You have an uncanny ability to demonstrate how little you know about what's happened in the world you live in, Joe. Obama did indeed put soldiers in Afghanistan...he did so when he called for the surge. According to the Congressional Research Service, there were 32,800 U.S. troops on the ground in Afghanistan in January 2009, when Obama entered office. In February 2009, the U.S. deployment increased to 35,900. By December 2009, the U.S. forces in Afghanistan had increased to 69,000. And, by September 2010, they had increased to 98,000. Do you want to apologize NOW for being clueless or did you want to wait a bit until you make an equally stupid statement and do it then to save time?
Completely irrelevent to the point I was making. I could explain it to you, but you STILL wouldn't understand it.
Obama did not invade Afghanistan. Bush did. And then Bush left the job unfinished to go off on his vendetta against Saddam. Which means that for nearly six years, we had the Taliban regrouping, culitivating heroin, while Pakistan went back to financing them.
Now, this is where the Obama Derangement syndrome comes in.
If Obama had come in 2009 and announced, "Hey, screw afghanistan. Karzai is a crook, and he's not going to last a week after we leave!", somehow I don't see you and the rest of the "Ohmygodtheresanegrointhewhitehouse" crowd saying, "Wow, Good call, Mr. President."
Nope. You'd be saying, "Hey, this nasty Keynan is soft on Terrorism! He's really a commie Muslim!"
So he did a surge, allowed us to save face, Killed Bin Laden (something Bush had notably FAILED to do), and now we are pulling out of that mess. Hopefully, we let Pakistan know we are going to hold them accountable for what goes onthere after we leave.