{"id":3704,"date":"2009-12-03T15:04:25","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T19:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3704"},"modified":"2009-12-03T17:07:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T21:07:42","slug":"good-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/03\/good-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"truth&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>I awoke this morning with a moment of clarity about Afghanistan &#8211; do what Obama says. Why?<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">The situation in Afghanistan really is the result of our own failures &#8211; inattention to the war because of a preoccupation with our Iraq misadventure; ineptness of our leaders; failure to deal with al Qaeda and the Taliban having havens in Northern Pakistan; corrupt leadership in Afghanistan willing to have us keep him in office.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"justify\">The solution: <\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">A firm statement that we are coming home at some defined point &#8211; no matter what.  <\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">Training for the Afghan Forces that are willing to fight. Support for non-corrupt Afghans. <\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">Sweeping the Taliban again [because they came back]. <\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">Supporting Pakistan in driving their own enemies from Northern Pakistan. <\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"justify\">That&#8217;s what Obama&#8217;s doing. Good for him. But here&#8217;s the point. Everyone&#8217;s hung up on his timetable. What if this and what if that? Will he stay too long? Will he leave too early? What&#8217;s his hidden agenda? Those are the questions they should&#8217;ve asked the last guy. This guy tells the truth. The last guy didn&#8217;t. He&#8217;ll do what he says and he&#8217;ll tell us how much it costs&#8230;<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"339\" width=\"425\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22425001\/vp\/34247828#34247828\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I awoke this morning with a moment of clarity about Afghanistan &#8211; do what Obama says. Why? The situation in Afghanistan really is the result of our own failures &#8211; inattention to the war because of a preoccupation with our Iraq misadventure; ineptness of our leaders; failure to deal with al Qaeda and the Taliban [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}