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Parkway Rest Stop

Nice, but Jim is always out of Moon Pies and the toilet bowl was dirty

Frequent contributor Jim PRS (Parkway Rest Stop) lists ten questions Obama Rama will never be asked by our crack media.  “     1. Why does Senator Obama advocate a surge of troops in Afghanistan though he considers a surge of troops in Iraq to have been a mistake?     2. Why is a stable Afghanistan crucial to US interests while a stable Iraq is not?     3. How long does Senator Obama expect to keep troops in Afghanistan?     4. Why is an open-ended commitment in Afghanistan manageable while the same in Iraq is not?     5. How much does Senator Obama expect to spend rebuilding Afghanistan?     6. Why is rebuilding Afghanistan affordable while rebuilding Iraq is not?     7. Why does Senator Obama consider the ethno-sectarian issues in Iraq to be nearly intractable while in Afghanistan they are something we can overcome?     8. If leaving Iraq will make the Iraqi government behave more responsibly, how will an increased presence in Afghanistan affect the Afghan government?     9. Why does Senator Obama advocate a “surge in diplomacy” and multilateralism in Iraq while simultaneously advocating unilateral action in the Pakistani tribal areas?     10. How large of a “residual force” will be left in Iraq and for how long? ”