The Contemporary Fundamentalist

   I know I said I was going to leave off the Politics for a while, and that I am leary of saying anything about the President, but this is the most significant Presidential moment in recent history.

   Tonight, Mr. Obama announced the removal of troops from Iraq within the next few months. He is removing them not because we have won the War there (we have not, no one is stupid enough to say so), but because the war in Iraq is unpopular among other Nations.

   Retreat from the field of war without obtaining your objective is the very definition of surrender. When President Bush's term ended, this was a war we were winning, despite Congress' sometimes illegal and often immoral attempts to sink it. Now, we have given it up.

   His reasoning had nothing to do with the war itself - it was a move to make us more "popular" with other Nations.

   He is also hamstringing the war in Afghanistan by placing a time limit of 18 months on it. All Al-Quaeda has to do is keep hiding in their Pakistani caves for a year-and-a-half, and they win there, as well.

   It's time to start learning Arabic - or looking for property in Mexico.