"Obama defended his push to prosecute a tougher military effort to root out
al-Qaida on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, which drew criticism from primary
rivals for sounding too bellicose. “Now you have narco drug lords who are
helping to finance the Taliban, so we’ve got to get the job done there, and that
requires us to have enough troops that we are not just air raiding villages and
killing civilians, which is causing enormous problems there,’’ Obama said.
Campaign spokesman Reid Cherlin said Obama was not endorsing the current Bush
policy, which consists solely of air raids and bombing of civilians."
More boots on the ground means that the enemy will draw them into street battles, taking aim from houses or mosques. Forcing the troops to return fire in a situation where innocent people will be caught in the cross fire. It also means more target for suicide bombers. The reality is that we cannot win this war as long as they are able to hide among the civilians.
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