Laird: Afghan War Belongs To Obama

It’s another wonderful day in the frigid Northwest this morning and cartoonist David Horsey is painting a picture of the obvious after President Barak Obama’s Tuesday night speech on the War in Afghanistan. Until that speech it could easily be said that Obama inherited the Afghan war from his predecessor which, although a thin line of rationale, is a line nonetheless. However, now that President Obama has tentatively agreed to send more troops to that Stygian wasteland called Afghanistan, he has put his fingerprints all over the war he inherited/ David Laird , Community Comment. More here .

Question: Do you agree with David Laird that the Afghanistan war belongs to President Obama with his decision to add more than 30,000 troops to the fray?