Foreign Policy

As the 2012 Presidential Election nears closer, issues are flying around in heated debates among candidates as prominent stances on certain issues come out. Among Republicans, former Massachusetts governor, Mitt Romney, opposes American troops' presence abroad and states

I want those troops to come home based upon not politics,
not based upon economics, but instead based upon the conditions on the ground
determined by the generals. But I also think we have learned that our troops
should not go off and try to fight a war of independence for another nation.
Only the Afghanis can win Afghanistan’s independence from the Taliban.

Ron Paul goes even further by stating

I wouldn’t wait for my generals. I’m the
commander in chief. I make the decisions. I tell the generals what to do and I
would bring them home as quickly as possible and I would get them out of Iraq as
well. And I wouldn’t start a war in Libya and I would quit bombing Yemen and I’d
quit bombing Pakistan.

Like Democrats before them, the Republican power players are just trying to tap the votes of an American public which is sick of the Forever War.

As he opposed the War on Terror since the before his presidency and throughout his time in the White House, Obama "officially ended" the War on Terror on December 14 at Fort Bragg. As the Times states

It was a swift and sudden end to an era that was slowly drawing to a close
anyway, as public sentiment grew against perceived abuses of government power .
. . Obama deserves credit for ending the worst of the Bush administration's
excesses in the 'war on terror' . . . But the orders contain
ambiguities that demonstrate how hard it will be to unwind the tangle that
President Bush created

As Obama believed it wasn't our fight since its beginning, the War is coming to a close as We see Obama clearly opposes the War altogether.