• "We should be in Afghanistan to win, not to set a
timetable for withdrawal", Sarah Palin's words clearly reflect
her support of President Obama's decision but at the same time
signals her frustration with the latter's hesitation in adopting
a surge strategy in the country.
 
• Palin is positive about winning in Afghanistan by
motivating, training and empowering the Afghan forces to 'build a
stable representative state able to defend itself.'
 
• She said that the United States should do everything
possible to turn the responsibility over to the Afghan government
so that the people can live there in peace without the
interference of America. This should be the 'ultimate goal' of
the US on Afghan soil.
 
• Palin reminds that the September 11 attacks were planned
in Afghanistan. Not making the US power felt in the country will
encourage Al Qaeda and the Taliban to impose their cruelty on the
people of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
 
• America needs to be fully prepared to win, according to
Palin. She says that the whole world is watching the US, ready to
point a finger if America is not able to protect their interests
in Afghanistan.
 
• Palin was deeply disturbed by Obama's alleged comment
that troops in Afghanistan were "air raiding villages and killing
civilians."
		

• Mitt Romney agrees that the United States has positioned
itself in war-torn Afghanistan to "confront a common enemy that
threatens the United States, our friends and allies"
 
• Though he is full of praise for President Obama's right
decision to surge 30,000 troops into Afghanistan, Romney does not
approve of the latter's non-action oriented rhetoric strategies
sketched out for the country and simply dismisses it with a
comment: "This is not the time for Hamlet in the White House."
 
• Mitt Romney made an appearance on CBS' Early Show, where
he openly criticized President Obama's decision-making process on
Afghanistan.
 
• He has clearly stated that nothing worthwhile is being
done to stabilize the situation in Afghanistan and protect the
lives of US troops dying in uniform everyday. 
 
• Followed by his silent interlude, Romney has been quick
to comment that President Obama has got his calculations wrong in
sending conflicting and equally misleading signals about a
timetable for withdrawing troops.
 
• Romney strongly opines, "You don't want in any way to
have [Pakistan or Afghanistan] thinking that somehow we are only
in there for 18 months and then we're getting out no matter what.
That's not the message you want to have heard"
 
• Romney believes that, in the hands of Obama, the US has
been molded to don the role of a neutral arbiter between nations
instead of a champion of freedom.
 
• He also sends across a warning signal that a pullback of
forces would destabilize Afghanistan.