The brass in DoD leaked it to Woodward because Obama last week left McChrystal hanging in the wind while our servicemen are dying because of the new ROEs and an emboldened Taliban.
>>>> The brass in DoD leaked it to Woodward <<<<
It’s marked Unclassified for a reason.
It’s about one step away from an OSD press release.
By the way, having skimmed it I am not impressed.
The two main problems in Afghanistan are (a) opium and (2) Pakistan.
There is no suggestion of seriously acting on either problem.
Ditto.
Either we need to beef up our forces and ease up these punishing Rules of Engagement, or we need to get out. The last thing in the world we need is to put our troops in danger with the intention of losing this war.
Which, I am afraid, is exactly Obama's intention. He wants to lose, give in to pressure to pull out, and blame it on Bush.
Obama wants the Muslim terrorists to win, he wants to blame Bush for the results just as the Democrats earlier managed to put all the blame on Nixon for the sins of JFK and LBJ, and he doesn't care how many of our forces die pointlessly to bring this about. Sure, many of the troops over there are black, but they aren't Obama's kind of blacks, even if they may have voted for him.
The only choice McChrystal had was to put the pressure on Obama and let people know that the responsibility is his. NOW.