Bill Clinton Supportive of Obama’s Surge
While speaking at a dinner attended by 1,000 Democratic activists in Manchester, New Hampshire, former U.S. President Bill Clinton praised Obama’s careful decision to send more troops to Afghanistan.
To Clinton, whose wife Hillary is the current Secretary of State, what was most impressive about Obama’s decision was his willingness to clearly think it through and not make rash decisions that could ultimately cost the Americans more lives and money:
Clinton praised President Obama’s troop surge strategy in Afghanistan though admitting there’s no way of knowing now if it will work.
“Any course they were taking on would have been unknowable,” Clinton said.
Obama’s refusal to be stampeded into a quick decision impressed him because this may be the toughest task of his presidency, he continued.
“They won’t pour good money and good blood after bad,” Clinton told about 1,000 Democratic activists at the party’s Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner at the Radisson Hotel here. “I believe they will have the courage to do it.”