Jacobs Believes McChrystal "Summoned" by Obama because He Contradicted Biden War Strategy - Video

Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | October 2, 2009 | BrianinMO

[Federalist Patriot]

Here is video of Retired Col. Jack Jacobs - an MSNBC Military Analyst - telling Ed Schultz he believes President Obama's meeting with top U.S. Commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, was the direct result of McChrystal's comments yeserday in London that were critical of Vice-President Joe Biden's strategy of "leaving Afghanistan to the Taliban." Jacobs believes McChrystal was "summoned" to Copenhagen by Obama because of those comments. Here is a report on his comments that contricted what Biden has called for:

The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, used a speech here Thursday to reject calls for the war effort to be scaled down from defeating the Taliban insurgency to a narrower focus on hunting down al Qaeda, an option suggested by Vice President Joe Biden as part of the current White House strategy review.

After his first 100 days in command in Kabul, McChrystal chose a blue-ribbon audience at London's Institute for Strategic Studies as a platform for a public airing of the confidential assessment of the war he delivered to the Pentagon last month, parts of which were leaked to news organizations.

McChrystal, 55, did not mention Biden or his advocacy of a scaled-down war effort during his London speech, and referred only obliquely to the debate within the Obama administration on whether to escalate the American commitment in Afghanistan by accepting his request for up to 40,000 more American troops on top of the 68,000 already deployed there or en route.

But he used the London session for a frank rebuttal of the idea of a more narrowly focused war. When a questioner asked him whether he would support scaling back the American military presence over the next 18 months by relinquishing the battle with the Taliban and focusing on tracking down al Qaeda, sparing ground troops by hunting al Qaeda extremists and their leaders with missiles from unmanned drones, he replied: "The short answer is: no."

"You have to navigate from where you are, not from where you wish to be," he said. "A strategy that does not leave Afghanistan in a stable position is probably a shortsighted strategy." . . . MORE

Jacobs believes Obama is likely to try and "split the baby" by giving McChrystal some additional forces, but with lots of strings attached and a timetable for results. He does not believe Obama will give McChrystal all he has asked for, and says it is possible the General will resign if Obama refuses to provide the reinforcements requested.

(VIDEO)

[savage woman]

Thanks...

You stated:Assuming Genl McChrystal’s is the right position, half measures would set the US up to lose.

So does that mean full measures would really make us
win this war? I thought these people will never stop,
fighting and killing is all they know and want.

[EDINVA]

There are no guarantees .. but the same was said of the Japanese in WWII. If the US doesn’t give its full effort, based on the the best military advice, who would ever know ?

[xkaydet65]

I might expect a demand for resignation or a firing. I would never defend anyhting Obama does, but McChrystal IMO stepped over the line active commanders must toe. The President, God help us now, is CinC. Any criticism of planning must be made either directly or through Chain of command to POTUS. Never in public. Never in the Press. If a matter is of such importance to a commander and he receives no support from POTUS then he either carries out the orders to the best of his ability or he resigns and carries on the fight as a civilian. McChrystal should resign now before he can be dismissed so as to retain his viability as a critic of Obama’s policies.

[piasa]

bump

[piasa]

Followup- McChrystal was of course correct:

Taliban capture key Afghan provincial capital Kunduz
The Guardian ^ | 28 September 2015 | Sune Engel Rasmussen

Posted on by Leaning Right

The Taliban have captured Kunduz in northern Afghanistan, taking government buildings and the city’s central prison in one of the biggest military victories for the movement since 2001. It is the most serious invasion of a provincial capital in 14 years.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...