Longtime war correspondent: Obama's Afghanistan plan lacks moral courage
President Barack Obama waves before speaking about his Afghanistan policy before cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009.
AP Photo/Julie Jacobson
Longtime war correspondent Joseph Galloway compares Afghanistan to Vietnam.
He writes, "just as Lyndon B. Johnson's decision to escalate and Americanize the Vietnam War blighted and ultimately destroyed his presidency, so too will Afghanistan and that other war he inherited blight the presidency of Barack Obama."
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