Obama Presidency Will Do More to Get Bin Laden

Barack Obama will take aggressive steps in Afghanistan sure to please US military commanders, the Washington Post says.

The strategies speculated to be a strong part of any Obama foreign policy will be of a wider scope that the current Bush Administration attitude toward Afghanistan, with a greater emphasis of killing and capturing Osama bin Laden.

An Obama administration is set to dramatically increase US troop numbers in the war torn nation, employ new strategies that will target talks with elements of the Taliban, other groups, and countries like Iran, with a less ideological approach as seen by the Bush Administration.

From the Washington Post:

Obama advisers and a number of senior military strategists both before and since last Tuesday's election reveal a shared sense that the Afghan effort under the Bush administration has been hampered by ideological and diplomatic constraints and an unrealistic commitment to the goal of building a modern democracy -- rather than a stable nation that rejects al-Qaeda and Islamist extremism and does not threaten U.S. interests. None of those who discussed the subject would speak on the record, citing sensitivities surrounding the presidential transition and the war itself.