Midknight Review -- new and revised: Afghan and Iraq: A+ for the prez or F- . . . . . Before placing your bet, maybe you should read this.

Take a look at these headlines and ask yourself, "Honestly, Self, does Obama deserve a 3 point bounce in the polls because of his foreign policy?"

Headline one, and the most surprising of the two: KARZAI: Afghanistan to back Pakistan if war with USA... This was reported by the radical anti-capitalists at MSNBC, a huge insult on two counts. One, the headline news itself. And two, the fact that MSNBC decided, for a change, not to sit on this story, but report it instead. Turns out that the secret raid into Pakistan that resulted in the death of bin Laden, has proven to be "a deal killer," setting Pakistan/USA relations back to before 2001. Understand that killing bin Laden was all about trumping George Bush. There is absolutely no sense of priorities within this Administration. Killing bin Laden did not make us safer as a nation. The man (bin Laden) had been completely neutralized . . . . . he was HIDDING for heaven's sake. In return for this effort and because of Barack Obama, the entire Afghan effort will have been for naught. Lives wasted. Money misspent. Alliances broken. That is the legacy of this, Obama's War.

Headline two: Iraq rejects US plea to keep bases after withdrawal.., which means, of course, that in spite of all the chest beating, Obama bragging about troops coming home "as I promised," he really wanted to keep a military presence in the region, hence, the words " . . . . US plea to keep bases after withdrawal." This is reported in the UK news outlet, The Guardian. If representative of European thinking, those folks, our allies, see this as a major embarrassment. Here is the lead-in to their story:

The US suffered a major diplomatic and military rebuff on Friday whenIraq finally rejected its pleas to maintain bases in the country beyond this year.

In fact, writers at the Obama charged NY Times, tell its readers that, in spite of words otherwise, Obama did expect to continue a military presence, as I wrote above. That announcement, yesterday, with Obama touting the withdrawal as a great success, was, in reality, " . . . . the president’s putting the best face on a breakdown in tortured negotiations with the Iraqis. " We agree. That press conference was nothing but smoke and mirrors.

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

Afghan and Iraq: A+ for the prez or F- . . . . . Before placing your bet, maybe you should read this.

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