(Tokyo; click to enlarge)"Fear Not"
Barack,
Afghanistan, what can be your Vietnam is.
Incredibly war is still going on in Afghanistan, though the number of enemies of America is just 50,000 or 60,000 who are equipped only with AK-47 machine-guns or RPG launchers while being unable to buy air tickets for America, since they are poor, just very poor.
Yet, more than 600 U.S. soldiers were already killed while 20,000 U.S. enemies were killed in addition to almost 30,000 civilian deaths.
OK, let’s check the situation, since Ms. Rice is now leaving.
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- Afghan foreign minister unhappy with Clinton
- Taliban threats close Pakistan schools
- U.S., Afghanis Are Killed in Two Attacks
- Hamas Rising
- Report: Tamil rebels kill 51 Sri Lankan soldiers
- Four dead in suicide car bomb attack in Kabul
- N. Korea: Priority to build up nuclear deterrent
http://www.wn.com/afghanistan
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These are bleak facts in and around Afghanistan as of today.
Yet, Americans are really forward-looking as a New York Time’s poll shows:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/18/us/politics/18poll.html?_r=2&hp
Almost 60% of Americans seem to believe that they can get better jobs and better economy in five years or so.
However, as the situations in these eight years have been highly dominated by a small group called AlQaeda and their hit-or-miss decision to attack just several big buildings in New York and Washington D.C. in 2001, actually leading to 8,000 deaths of Americans both domestically and overseas, the country so small and poor, in terms of the national power, called Afghanistan might make the U.S. Government and the American people suffer again in the next five years or so, even if not economically.
Eventually, in the Presidential Election of 2012 or 2016, all the American voters might go in a fever and vote for the first Muslim U.S. President in the history.
Indeed, the world must be improved at least a little when you, Barack, leave the White House someday for another journey (maybe to Africa).
Sincerely,
EE(E)-Reporter, America’s Friend since Sept. 11, 2001
Mat 1:19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.
Mat 1:20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.