• 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.
		

• "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."