Obama on the War

Long time, no words. Heartfelt apologies for that.

Obama, Obama, Obama. A man I voted for and have much faith in. The topic of the war is an extremely touchy one but after reading this speech I do have to say that it does give logical reasons. No chance everyone is going to agree with me or with President Obama but it is important to acknowledge that he brought up KEY points as to why we went to war in the first place. He brought up hard subject matter, such as the amount of people who died on 9/11 and how bad it could have been. Nobody wants deaths overseas. Nobody wants to see innocent people dead. But people do want to see us fight for our country. Obama didn't put us in Iraq. Bush didn't even put us there. The events did. It's touchy subject matter, like I said. So, I hope I don't get millions of comments from crazies like Erin did.

Like you said, Robin, this is difficult subject matter. The president says it himself, To address these important issues, it's important to recall why America and our allies were compelled to fight a war in Afghanistan in the first place. We did not ask for this fight.

There is no good reason Obama can give us, or anyone can give us. But he tries and I think he does his best. I think he brought up great points in this speech and he has a plan. Of course things can't always go as planned. Time will tell. But for now, I think Obama is trying pretty hard to give some logical reasons for the military actions.