This blog is not intended to be political, but sometimes politics are inextricably enmeshed in America's efforts to avoid a second 9/11 attack. A presidential campaign debate yesterday at New Hampshire's Dartmouth College was one of those times.
One party has typically insisted on telling Al Qaeda and others in Iraq exactly how long they have to hunker down, before U.S. troops retreat. For those who might want to overthrow the current government, and replace it with something more like late Taliban regime in Afghanistan, knowing how long they have to stay low could be vital information.
Now that there's a real possibility that their party will be in the White House, the party's top three candidates, Obama, Clinton, and Edwards, said that they couldn't promise to have all U.S. troops out by the end of the presidential term in 2013.
It's remarkable: how looming responsibility changes one's perspective.
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