The wars of the peace candidate

Barack Obama ran as the peace candidate. But now that he is president, we are still in Iraq, we are escalating the war in Afghanistan, and now we are looking at getting more involved in Pakistan. Yes, he said that combat operations will cease in August of next year and will draw down troop numbers from 130,000, but he is still going to leave 50,000 troops. According to the linked article, that’s basically what President Bush was planning.

So, I have questions for both Obama’s supporters and his conservative critics. To the former I ask, are you still supporting him, even though he is continuing Bush’s wars and possibly escalating the war in Afghanistan? To the latter, I ask, so do you feel better about our new commander in chief that he has not abandoned the warfare against the radical Muslims?