Two Campaigns Skirt Talk Of Tough Choices n Afghanistan -- New York Times
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. described the Obama administration’s latest war strategy in deliberately stark terms in his debate with Representative Paul D. Ryan: “We are leaving Afghanistan in 2014, period.” Mr. Ryan did not dispute that deadline, but insisted on a little wiggle room, saying that Mitt Romney would consult with his generals about the timing and resources and conditions on the ground, to avoid imperiling America’s gains in a war that began in 2001.
Remarkably, that exchange 11 days ago may have been the most substantive discussion all campaign season about how to manage the longest-running conflict in American history. It was not an argument over what America’s goals should be, but how fast to get out.
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My Comment: President Obama does not want to talk about it because he knows that his base has been wanting him to withdraw from Afghanistan for years .... why remind his supporters that they are still there. Romney avoids the issue because he knows that most of the independents that he needs to vote for him are "fed-up" with Afghanistan, and why remind them that he wants to continue having a US presence in Afghanistan for the next few years. As for the media, anti-war protestors, pundits, etc.., they are completely awol on this story .... so both parties are now calculating that it would be best to avoid the story.