• Mike Huckabee has expressed his full support for the war
in Afghanistan and is also of the impression that the "war should
not be judged while the United States is in the midst of it."
 
• Huckabee agrees that the Al Qaeda is a threatening
cancer diagnosed in Afghanistan but drives home the theory that
one does not deal with cancer by "pretending it doesn't exist."
 
• He is all praise for President Obama's wise decisions
regarding the war on terror in Afghanistan and feels everyone
should extend their 'non-partisan' support to the President as he
aims to finish America's international involvement in the
eight-year Afghanistan war.
 
• However, he has expressed his displeasure in withdrawing
the American troops from America in July 2011. Huckabee has
brushed aside this timetable as 'a huge mistake' and is not too
optimistic that President Obama will be able to stick to his time
line, without running the risk of ultimately abandoning it.
 
• Huckabee has reasons for his opposition of a public
timetable and justifies it with the simple theory that the
Taliban, Al Qaeda and the Afghan locals will perceive this
mention of a specific date as evidence that the American troops
will, most certainly, leave the country within the first few days
of July 2011. This step alone, Huckabee feels, is a wrong message
that will demoralize the Afghan and Pakistani armed forces and
make the countries more unstable.
 
• According to Huckabee, the Afghanistan government has
been highly disappointing and clearly stated that the US cannot
withdraw.
 
• Huckabee continues to insist his viewpoint that
neighboring countries should extend their support, both
militarily and financially.
		

• "I intend to finish the job", said President Obama, eight
years after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre,
referring to America's national interest to "dismantle and
destroy" the Al-Qaida terrorist and extremist ally networks
 
• Announcing the deployment of 30,000 more US troops to
Afghanistan in early 2010 and the withdrawal of all forces by
late 2011, Obama is positive about finishing America's
international involvement in the eight-year Afghanistan war and
subsequently hand over the fight to the Government of Kabul
 
• Obama's new war-against-terror strategy fulfills three
objectives: Deny Al Qaeda as a safe haven, reverse the momentum
of the Taliban and reinforce Afghanistan's security forces.
 
• "The Taliban has gained momentum and the Al Qaeda has
retained their safe-havens along the border," Obama said at the
U.S. Military Academy. He thus stressed on the need to make
Afghanistan stable if US is to succeed in denying the Taliban's
capabilities to overthrow the Afghan government and uphold
America's vision of world peace. 
 
• Urging the need to prevent the cancerous terrorist
forces from spreading throughout Afghanistan and creeping towards
the borders of Pakistan, Obama said that his war strategy is
designed to work on both sides of the Afghan-Pak border
 
• At the same time he assures that the US will not turn
its back to Afghanistan and shall continue to maintain an
American presence in the country to ensure that no terrorist
attack ensues from a vantage point on the soils of Afghanistan or
Pakistan
 
• Obama clearly stated that "America has no interest in
fighting an endless war in Afghanistan."