Decisions, Decisions: Deployment or Diplomacy

Wednesday, December 2, 2009








Later this evening, President Obama is going to announce a decision on our national direction with the war in Afghanistan. The main question, among the others swirling around, is this: will the president follow the advise of his military leaders and deploy more troops in the effort to overcome the stagnation found on the ground in this key region, or will the president acquiesce to the demands of the more-liberal factions of his supporters and defer to diplomacy in the region as the primary resource to change the climate in the fight against American-opposing terrorists?