Jennifer Rubin discusses Obama’s reversals or wavering in policy toward Afghanistan and missile defense in Europe
Jennifer Rubin: “The Washington Post’s editors are understandably nervous — Obama is wavering, perhaps crumbling before their eyes, on Afghanistan. They note that, not so long ago, he was sounding George W. Bush-like in his determination to prevail. But no more”
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“While Obama ‘appears to be distancing himself from his commanders’ — whom HE installed and presented with HIS mission of ridding Afghanistan of the Taliban — there is little reason, they note, for him to back away from his own analysis offered just months ago that a return of the Taliban would be a disaster for Afghanistan and hugely destabilizing to its neighbor Pakistan.”
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“In April, Obama defended missile defense in Europe…
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In September, he pulled the rug out from under the Poles and Czechs.”