Barack Obama for President

McCain has been attacking Obama on his timetable and on his lack of support for the “surge”. McCain keeps parroting the idea that withdrawing troops is surrender (an idea that I have discussed previously as flawed). McCain also has called Obama wrong on the “surge” because Obama was against it and it supposedly worked.

Now, here is the $64,000 question. Did the surge actually work? We can never really know what would have happened on the ground had we not sent additional troops over there. We could have had the same results, better results, or worse results.

And in this article defending the surge, it seems as if the author is saying that policy is what is making the difference. And isn’t that what Obama is saying, that we need better policy and not higher troop levels?

But the bottom line is this. Obama was one of the ones who happened to be right on the issue of Iraq. We have been distracted by Bush in this whole Iraq mess and have allowed Al Queda and the Taliban to get more of a foothold back in Afghanistan. Obama is pushing for higher troop levels in Afghanistan and wants to return Al Queda as being central to the war against terrorism. Seems like that is where we should have been all along…