It is no secret that Obama does not plan to continue with the course Bush set in Iraq. Obama promises to reduce troop levels in Iraq. He also hopes to deal with the conflict in a multilateral fashion, drawing upon the advice and strength of our allies rather than ignoring their concerns and fighting a unilateral war.
Why Obama Wants Change
Throughout his campaign, Obama promised to reevaluate President Bush's war in Iraq. According to Obama, the war in Iraq has distracted the United States from other legitimate security threats. Instead of fighting a war in Iraq, the United States could have focused on hunting down Al Qaeda, fighting global climate change, supporting nuclear nonproliferation, securing the homeland, and a host of other pressing needs that, according to Obama, our nation has proven unable to properly address while focusing on the conflict in Iraq. Obama feels that the price of our involvement in Iraq is too high a cost, both in terms of lives lost and money spent. He claims that the Iraqi Security Forces will prove adequately prepared to protect the peace and actively fight organized crime.
Where to?
Obama believes that Afghanistan, not Iraq, should be the United States focus in the war on terror. Al Qaeda and Taliban staged 9/11 out of Afghanistan, not Iraq. Recently, the Taliban has established control over sections of Afghanistan because the United States military presence there has not been strong enough to suppress them. Obama feels that our nation's war against terrorism should be fought in Afghanistan, not Iraq.
Source,
The information used to compile Obama's perspective on these subjects was found in his speech on the war which was published by the New York Times.
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