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Five years after the United States internationally led effort to topple the Taleban, Afghanistan is paralyzed by an active insurgency and drug trafficking. Though thought to have been on the right track following the elections, Hamad Karzai’s freely elected government remains anything but that. Mr. Karzai is plagued daily with reports of suicide bombers killing innocent civilians and security personnel–a tactic growing more and more sophisticated. The security situation in the tribal regions of Afghanistan–the Helmund Provence especially– is a far cry from being stable. Because of the dire situation in Iraq, it’s becoming more and more difficult to send American army personnel, leaving the country with little hope of ever becoming fully stabilized.

With the 2008 election well off the ground, presidential contenders must tailor their foreign policy goals to include not only Iraq, the issue on all our minds, but also Afghanistan.

Enter Joe Biden.

Joe Biden has shown his in several speeches demonstrated his commitment to ending the war in Iraq the right way by offering his plan Iraq: A Way Forward–a plan designed to make Iraq a Republic. But he doesn’t stop there. In addition to outlining a clear-cut strategy to ending our involvement in Iraq, Joe Biden is also demanding that there are actions in Afghanistan, the real war.

“ That country is not lost says. It is on the brink of a major comeback by the Taliban, Al Queda, warlords and drug traffickers. Our necessary investment in blood and treasure risks being squandered — we need an infusion of military and economic assistance and a plan to wean that country away from drugs,” says the Delaware Senator.

In some way our foreign policy in Afghanistan during the 1979 Soviet invasion had serious consequences on future events, particularly the horrific events that took place on September 11th. It is therefore in our best national interest to choose someone, with the will and intellectual curiosity, to make sure that we never allow al-queda, or something like it, the breathing room to plan and mount an operation like 9/11. For that to happen we mustn’t allow the Taleban or Al-queda to once again take control of that country, and we certainly cannot do this with a leader who isn’t willing to listen.

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In one of the more upsetting moments in the history of juries–excepting the O.J. verdict–Scooter I. Libby was handed down a light sentence, 30 months in Federal Prison, for committing perjury when he lied about his involvement in the leaking of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame. And you thought that made Liberals scream like Sam Kinison performing in front of a bunch of Seniors. Well, think again.

Hours after a federal appeals court ruled that I. “Scooter” Lewis Libby would to have to begin serving his prison sentence while appealing his conviction for crimes of perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to investigators, President Bush commuted his sentence.

I would argue that, while it’s constitutionally permissible for a president to issue pardons and reprieves, except in cases of impeachment, it’s of even greater importance for a vice president to comply with an ‘executive order’ on safeguarding classified information.

Dick Cheney, who has wielded extraordinary executive power as he transformed the image of the vice presidency, is asserting that his office is not actually part of the executive branch. It won’t be long before Mr. Cheney declares himself a sovereign nation.

Cheney went so far as to attempt to abolish the Information Security Oversight Office, the division of the National Archives set up to enforce safeguards for classified information in executive agencies. So utterly convinced that he’s above accountability, the vice president claims to be a member of the legislature. How presiding over the senate and casting a final vote in the event of a tie can be remotely considered as a “part” of a fundamentally separate branch is inconceivable.

How does this relate to the comutting of Scooter Libby?

Once again, it shows a total and utter disregard for justice on the part of an administration that, in its early days, vehemently claimed the opposite.

“[We] must remember the high standards that come with high office. This begins with careful adherence to the rules. I expect every member of this administration to stay well within the boundaries that define legal and ethical conduct. This means avoiding even the appearance of problems. This means checking and, if need be, double- checking that the rules have been obeyed. This means never compromising those rules. No one in the White House should be afraid to confront the people they work for, for ethical concerns, and no one should hesitate to confront me as well. We are all accountable to one another. And above all, we are all accountable to the law and to the American people.”

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