Don’t compare Obama to Bush
Editorial
I find it quite odd these days how many pundits say that President Barack Obama is starting to sound the same as President George W. Bush. This is happening because of the recent troop allocations, timetables and other actions that the Obama administration undertook in support of our efforts in Afghanistan.
This is far from mimicry. The Bush administration abandoned efforts in Afghanistan to pursue the occupation of Iraq. This all under the guise of freeing the world from the threats that Iraq imposed by its affinity for weapons of mass destruction.
Remember those WMD? Well, what I remember is a clear, crisp and sunny morning that was engulfed by hatred eight years ago. That attack didn’t come from Iraq. It came from Afghanistan.
Obama is far from copying Bush. Obama is merely putting this country back on course, a course from which it mistakenly became sidetracked several years ago.
Focus and diligence is the character of Americans. Fear and paranoia is the character of our enemy.
CHARLES HEADLEY
Gansevoort
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