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Wednesday, Nov. 11,2009
Volume 43, Issue 5
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eft to right: Matt Morrison as Matt, Heather Ovalle as Bette and James Sharinghousen as Boo act in a dress rehearsal for Clackamas’ new theater pro-
r'The Marriage of Bette and Boo.” The title characters attempt to reconcile after the death of a child. See story on page 5.
ama’s presidency not doing what voters hoped for
to be
than he can accomplish with the
pnistan war and healthcare bill some
pt that Obama can win these battles
pa’s campaign promises prove
By Abigail Neet
News Editor
far in the Obama presidency, we know he has
■Nobel Peace Prize and done a lot of golf­
fording to James Taranto of the Wall Street
■fitly Obama and his team are still deliberat-
|ir strategy towards Afghanistan.
p are still at war in Afghanistan this March,
it will become America’s longest lasting war. The
war in Afghanistan will be even longer than the
Vietnam War, to which people have made com­
parisons.
.
At the Center for Security Policy in Washington,
former Vice President Dick Cheney recently stat­
ed, “The White House must stop dithering while
America’s armed forces are in danger. Make no
mistake, signals of indecision out of Washington
hurt our allies and embolden our adversaries.”
October is quickly becoming the deadliest month
out of the deadliest year that we have had in
Afghanistan. Oct. 27 added eight more lives into
the October death count and helped the death toll
for that month which reached 55, as of that date.
“Afghanistan cannot be governed/occupied by
Americans, period” said Dean Darris, political
science instructor, in an e-mail. “We should have
learned this lesson after the Soviet Union found
its graveyard in its attempt to occupy Afghanistan.
This year is already the bloodiest year for American
troops in this EIGHT year war, and the Pentagon
has stated that it will take ‘decades’ to stabilize
this country. This approach to Afghanistan (and
Iraq) have not only led to limitless troop deploy­
ments with no success in sight, but has wrecked the
American economy. Osama bin Laden, when asked
if he could defeat America, said ‘Al-Qaeda’s only
chance of victory is to hope America bankrupts
itself in trying to defeat us in Afghanistan/”
“Obama’s decision to escalate American troop
involvement in Afghanistan is going to have disasr
trous impact on the country for decades to come,”
Darris added.
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