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I am looking for positive things Obama might say in his Nobel Prize speech to indicate that he realizes that Afghanistan is a Quagmire. I am especially hoping for some kind of olive branch to the entire Taliban. One thing I think he clearly won’t say or do is what the peace movement suggested, before his 30,000 troop escalation speech, is to withdraw to strategic areas of Afghanistan and fighting from there. This I think would only tend to invigorate the Taliban and maybe al Qaeda as well

The peace prize ceremony is coming up and more disappointment of Obama for peace there, but I still think he is the best hope available, and remember history where Nixon had a secret plan supposedly to end the war. Will a Dick Cheney have a secret plan that he will suggest needs to include ignoring rights and civil liberties? The question is “not how we can improve things soon, but how can we prevent things from getting a lot worse? Enclosed are some suggestions I hope readers have others.

Local connection,
http://www.phillyimc.org/en/peace-prize-war-dilemma

I believe Obama has good reasons for wanting to fight the war, but they are not good enough, especially since the Americans who support the war, support it to oppose what they see as backward and harsh Muslim values which angers the Muslim world. He is making a mistake not being an evil man.

Maybe if when Johnson started escalating, if the people who loved Johnson when the war started and kept quiet would have instead loudly asserted their support for Johnson, while opposing the war, history would be different. Let’s today those of us who both love Obama and oppose the war speak up.

The hate smears and polarization keeps getting worse, but there is change in the opposite direction finally Sarah Palin and Hillary offer to have a casual chat and tea all the way up to th ADL condemning Glenn Beck’s hate mongering to anti-Castro Cubans condemning death threats against Cubans who disagree.

In response to Fort Hood, Rightist screaming liberals are ignoring the problem and Progressive screaming that the right is stirring up hate is nothing new. However after 9/11 a Canadian Muslim legislator noted that young kids were radicalized, and spawned programs including in the US and Europe for Muslim kids to learn about the entire Koran, instead of al Qaeda repeated sometimes out of context quotes, that Islam Haters also repeat. Let’s organize now, even if the next incident will be internally desperate kids like at Columbine High.

People with strong opinions are being smeared and fired.

Michael Moore, Sarah Palin, Van Jones and Marc Lamont Hill are unusual in that they clearly speak their mind, and aren’t joining the efforts of others to pour perfume on themselves while hurling bad tastes and odors at what they don’t like instead of explaining why.

Muslims fit in, in America, far more than in Europe. America stopped bragging about being a melting pot, but nevertheless it is still sometimes true. Employers sometime prize honest workers and customers can look for honest sales people. But there is a concerted effort from people from several political persuasions to change this. This effort needs to be countered. One terrible incident rather than many could mean we are fortunate that ouine. Elsewhere, David Horowitz and Tigre Hill and rewriting Black Panther, and Mumia abu-Jamal history to imply that the Panthers were the kind of people to snipe at police-cars and uniforms, and that Mumia felt empowered by the barrel of a gun, instead of by his endless essays before and after he was accused of murder,
http://www.phillyimc.org/en/david-horowitz-smears-again-tigre-hill%E2%80…
http://www.phillyimc.org/en/no-hate-speech-no-geert-wilders

After 9/11, most accused of terror lost most of their Constitutional Rights. If Horowitz gets his way everyone as soon as they were accused of a heinous crime would lose their rights as well, and if Horowitz succeeds we might actually have a future President similar to ex-Vice-President Cheney bragging about infringing Constructional Freedoms. We may not be able to all get along but if we don’t keep trying things might get far worse then theyr culture is so accepting of different ethic and religious groups. Can we keep it this way?

Mumia people and Muslims are upset with the hate David Horowitz blasts in both directions. His hate references to Muslims are Mumia are amazingly similar, spreading accusations of terrorist at both Mumia and Muslims yet there are two separate movements of oppose Horowitz not one,
http://www.phillyimc.org/en/david-horowitz-smears-again-tigre-hill%E2%80%99s-mumia-trailer-depicts-mumia-terrorist
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I unlike most who worked for Obama to become President didn’t chear him as a miracle worker like most hard working Obama supporters did, but expected him to be smeared the way Jimmy Carter. But suddenly Obama began to fight back. No more calling on the Washington Times reporter at a press conference, right after the paper smeared him. But somehow progressives like David Corn are not cheering. Let’s join the President in standing up to the hate campaign against him.

Many look at General Stanley McChystal’s grim assessment of the Afghan War, that we might lose in a hurry unless 40,000 thousand more troops are sent in as being superhawky, but he never implied that there is a good chance that the US would win even if sent. I want to interpret it as meaning victory is anything but certain no matter how many US troops get sent. In-other-words another reason to oppose the war.