Vrede wrote:So, he didn't say Obama invaded Afghanistan, but he also didn't mention that Shrub did; he did criticize Obama's occupation but never mentioned Shrub's still longer one; he praised Mitten's question, but never mentioned that Mitten did not ever once hint that he would "just bring them home tomorrow morning". The GOP conventioneers ate it up, not once recognizing that Clint was really damning the GOP's policy even more than Obama's.
One nitpick there: Invasion and occupation are two different things.
I would have supported the invasion to capture bin Laden, Mullah Omar, etc., or at the very least to remove their government. Then I would have turned power over to the tribes to hold their own territories. Let THEM nation-build, if they wanted.
I would not have supported a long-term occupation. Certainly not one where the US occupies it with a minimal force, while it goes on an adventure in Iraq for almost a decade.
And I doubt that Obama was expecting
that if he supported the invasion of Afghanistan.
All through the 2008 election campaign the Republicans claimed that Obama would "cut and run" from Iraq and Afghanistan. He didn't. And so the wars instead became "Obama's wars." And that's what Eastwood was doing; making American involvement in Afghanistan "Obama's war", with not a Republican involved in the decision.