Obama should end Afghanistan war

What are we doing in Afghanistan, and why is President Obama continuing to send young American women and men to their deaths?

What is the strategic thinking from the Oval Office for ending our longest war since Vietnam?

He had better listen more carefully to his military personnel on the ground, instead of hiding behind making no decision as if this war were an academic case exercise at the Harvard Law School. Being the president involves making tough military decisions and submitting to the discernment and wisdom of generals.

Mr. Obama must now view his job as more than echoing David Axelrod's well-crafted re-election speeches while leader of the Free World. The growing impatience with this war is fueled primarily by the cavalier treatment it is receiving by our president. The time for political rhetoric is over.

Afghanistan is Obama's war in no less a way than Iraq was Bush's war. It won't be long before the anti-war posters appear outside the White House, that is, if our PC broadcast media decides to send its cameras to cover the story responsibly."

Paul O. Bischoff

Wheaton