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just another thing us republicans can add to our list of "i told you this guy was a bad idea".

[Along with protecting local Afghans and reducing violence, new efforts are focused on cutting off the funding of the Taliban and other Afghan insurgents. US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke spoke of a new thinking on the issue during a June 2009 visit to Pakistan. Holbrooke said the long-held notion that Afghanistan's illicit opium trade is the main source of funding for the insurgency is simply not true. And, he says US policy is going to reflect that reality. "If the drugs ended tomorrow, it would not have a major effect on the Taliban source of funding," said Holbrooke. "And, that's one of the reasons the United States is going to downgrade crop eradication as part of its policies in Afghanistan. We're going to upgrade interdiction. We're going to upgrade our efforts to go after the main drug traffickers. But we want to focus on where the money really comes from." ]

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["I'm always worried about using the word 'victory,' because, you know, it invokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur," Obama told ABC News.

The enemy facing U.S. and Afghan forces isn't so clearly defined, he explained.

"We're not dealing with nation states at this point. We're concerned with Al Qaeda and the Taliban, Al Qaeda's allies," he said. "So when you have a non-state actor, a shadowy operation like Al Qaeda, our goal is to make sure they can't attack the United States."]

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Even the FOX article explains what he meant if you would bother to read it.

He is basically paraphrasing what everyone already knows...yopu can't win a war against a word.

It is the same reason we never won the war on crime.

Victory = a plan or goal and the successful execution to obtain it. By doing this means Obama would have to bring them home and he does not want to do that because it would make our economy worse. War helps an ailing economy - Economics 101.

Obama. The typical lib. Says he supports our troops but actually does not. Obama, the perfect statist.

I want tastebuds.. you're just.. too much rofl. I can't tell if you're kidding or if you're f'ing retarded. Even if he's lying, it's stupid. Victory IS an objective of ANY endeavor unless you want to do poorly. Stop living in your box.

Just as Nixon and Johnson, the present white house determines what targets can be hit and which cant. It killed a lot of american service men then and as history always repeats itself it will get a lot killed now. Generals win wars not presidents.

I thought Democrats. Wanted the troops home. Various Arab countries. Want U.S troops to return home. So what's taking the Dems so long. To bring them home?

if i was in Afghanistan i might not charge a hill because "victory" is not our objective

what a asinine comment

I mean, right now im neutral about it because if he tries and pulls them out all at once theres going to be a SH*TLOAD of american solider deaths which would notttt be very smart on his part!

Victory sounds pompous. Do you want to be seen as pompous? I know many of you have a "i dont give a **** what those ragheads feel like" attitude but the correct thing to do is know your enemy. Not be American bad *** with them.

Obama knows what he is doing.