Now that it's Obama's war, it must be a just war, right? After all, our commander-in-chief is a Nobel Peace Prize winner so he must know what he's doing.From a post by Brad Wilmouth at NewsBusters.org:
Appearing as a guest on Comedy Central's Colbert Report on Friday, CBS News correspondent Lara Logan defended America’s continued war effort in Afghanistan, and argued that it is "crap" that some have made comparisons between Afghanistan and the Vietnam War. Logan: "You know, the ridiculous thing about all these comparisons – it's the graveyard of empires, it’s Obama's Vietnam – it's all that crap, right?"
Logan, who has spent years in the field covering the wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq, went on to make a strong case in favor of staying in Afghanistan and continuing the fight against Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terror group because of the threat the group still poses, as she cited bin Laden's stated desire to attack America's homeland with weapons of mass destruction:
The truth is that when the Vietnam War ended, the Viet Cong didn't follow the U.S. back home. And that's the big difference. You don't have to listen to one President or another President. It's not political. Listen to bin Laden. Go and read what he has said: We will follow the United States, we will attack the homeland again, we will use nuclear weapons, we will use biological warfare. I mean, it's very simple. Everything al-Qaeda has ever said they were going to do before, they've done. There is no reason to doubt his intentions.CBS’s Lara Logan Defends Afghanistan War, Comparison to Vietnam is 'Crap' | NewsBusters.org
Originally posted at TONY PHYRILLAS
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