About Time!
Saturday, 14 June 2008 Jacob TomawThe Times of London reports, “Get Osama Bin Laden before I leave office, orders George W Bush.” They report Pakistan is going along with it.
The Iraq War debacle receives a lot of attention from the press. The lack of Osama bin Laden being captured or killed does not receive anything close to the proper coverage in my opinion. This was a basic objective nearly all Americans supported and it has been an objective for nearly 7 years.
I also think bin Laden should be larger issue on the campaign trail. I want to know what McCain and Obama (and Barr for that matter) will do to refocus the “War on Terror” towards al-Quieda. My ideal candidate would give a speech like this:
Refocusing our foreign policy is the most important task I see before me as president. So important that I do not want to waste time and money on the typical pomp and circumstances of the inauguration. I intent to have Chief Justice Roberts swear me in at the Pentagon. I will be there with my military advisers in order to quickly execute the changes we need to make in Iraq and Afghanistan. I do not want to endanger our troops in the field, so I cannot announce all of these changes ahead of time. However, al-Qieda member in general and Osama bin Laden specifically should consider this as notice.
Then my ideal candidate would extract all of our troops from Iraq immediately and redeploy as many as needed to Afghanistan and Pakistan to capture al-Qieda senior leadership.