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Originally Posted by EagleSeven
So Obama is going to tell the Department of Defense "Okay, you can win the war in Afghanistan now, I'm in office! You can stop pretending!" ????
Sorry, but it doesn't work like that. Also, North Korea was very responsive to the carrot in the 90's, they took the carrot (food aid) and built new test reactors! They had their carrot and ate it too!
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Oh cmon. You know its very easy to not win a war while prolonging it to enrich your friends if you're CINC. Everybody knows the war in Afghanistan was largely won by 2003, but then Bush pulled all the troops out to send them to Iraq and stopped the humanitarian aid, so the Taliban came back. All we have to do is do what we did before. If you give most people a choice between the first decent meal they've had in 3 years and being blown to bits not too many even go Hmmmm....
So what if Korea did what you say. Carrot and Stick means just that, if they eat your carrot and still try to make nukes you beat them with your stick.
Silly conversation in any case. Iran doesn't have and isn't even close to getting nukes, all another Bush lie. Obama doesn't have to keep up the Bush lies, which should make foreign policy so much easier.