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I think his "we'll stay 100 years in Iraq" turned them and others away. Even though he probably sincerely felt we wouldnt, he displayed patience and a lack of urgency to wrap this thing up with that statement and sent a bad message.
Send what we have to Afganistan instead seems to be a little more logical.
Most of them are intellectual lightweights with little sense of history.
He was comparing it to Japan, Germany and South Korea, where we've been for nearly 3/4 of a century.
When Likud Party leader Bebe Netanyahu is reelected as Isreal's PM in ~5 mos and Isreal and Iran go to war Obama is going to support the wrong side and be a deer in the headlights anyway.
It has already started. Syria, for example, is really excited about Obama's win:
Report: Syria's Assad sends telegram to Obama congratulating him on his presidency win
By Associated Press
3:30 PM EST, November 7, 2008
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) _ Syria's president has sent a telegram to congratulate Barack Obama on being elected president.
President Bashar Assad's note comes just weeks after the Bush administration ordered a U.S. helicopter raid into Syria near Iraq's border last month that strained relations between the two countries.
Syria's SANA state new agency reports Friday that Assad expressed hope that Obama's victory will mean "constructive dialogue." Syria has congratulated U.S. presidents before.
U.S. officials said the raid targeted a militant leader. Damascus says eight civilians died, and closed the U.S. cultural center and an American school in Damascus in retaliation.
The U.S. has accused Syria of not doing enough to curb the flow of militant fighters from Syria into Iraq.