When Bob Woodward’s new book Obama’s Wars is released on Monday, the veteran reporter’s work will reveal intimate details of the president’s decision-making process in Iraq and Afghanistan. Some of the exchanges and interviews have been published in anticipation of the book’s release, revealing infighting and a stubborn determination by Obama to limit the military’s presence and capabilities in fighting what his administration has called an “overseas contingency operation.”
”I’m not doing long-term nation-building,” Obama told Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates. “I am not spending a trillion dollars.”
Apparently, the president has decided his nation-rebuilding efforts–as well as trillions of dollars–would be best used in the United States. Why spend money on a nation such as Afghanistan when there’s so much to remake and reform in the Obama/Marxist image right here at home? And programs that derail an economy and make the populace dependent upon a central Government cost money.
