Sounds like all the Bush-bashers and Paulestinians on FR should have a new hero in OBama when this book comes out.
How many troops did Woodward kill by holding information in the book for his own financial gain?
"... At McConnell's top-secret briefing for Obama, the intelligence chief told the president-elect that Pakistan is a dishonest partner, unwilling or unable to stop elements of the Pakistani intelligence service from giving clandestine aid, weapons and money to the Afghan Taliban, Woodward writes."
I see a mission for a few CIA snipers then. Do not talk, KILL these Taliban supporters! Go after the money men and give them a dose of lead poisoning!
Speechless.
We should be looking for the exit door from Afghanistan. This is more than we are able to handle at this moment in time.
It’s like nation building in North America circa 1491.
This is not a nation like Japan, Germany, or Iraq where you can organise a nation based on modern standards with people who can read, write and have some education.
Afghanistan is no way close to being even literate. It is a loosely held group of tribes constantly fighting and negotiating with one another.
What book? According to CNN, the book doesn’t exist!
Just kidding...it is nowhere to be found on their website, and, Woodward is a lib!
“In a dramatic scene at the White House on Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009, Obama summoned the national security team to outline his decision and distribute his six-page terms sheet. He went around the room, one by one, asking each participant whether he or she had any objections - to “say so now,” Woodward reports.
The document - a copy of which is reprinted in the book - took the unusual step of stating, along with the strategy’s objectives, what the military was not supposed to do. The president went into detail, according to Woodward, to make sure that the military wouldn’t attempt to expand the mission.
After Obama informed the military of his decision, Woodward writes, the Pentagon kept trying to reopen the decision, peppering the White House with new questions. Obama, in exasperation, reacted by asking, “Why do we keep having these meetings?”
Obama: ‘WHY DO WE HAVE TO KEEP HAVING THESE MEETINGS? I have a golf game and a vacation to get to.’ (eye roll)
The message will go out World-wide that Obama has no heart for fighting in Afghanistan.
IMHO, 25 to life sounds more appropriate.
if true (which I only say because, face it, it’s Woodward), these should be the final two nails in Barry’s political coffin.
- he tried to override his own generals and formulated Afghan war strategy based on pleasing internal constituents in the Democrat Party, not for any sound national security reasons.
- he says that we can “absorb” another terrorist attack (which is clearly what he intends to do should there be one)
Repeat threads are the norm for FR, but you didn’t even pretend to do a search.
...stop torturing the girls and even Michelle ma'belle...
...move back to Chicago to his mansion.....
...withdraw from all politics and "organizing" activities...
...and live happily ever after..
..and GTF out of our face.
If he will not do that...then I will be happy with seeing him drooling....his eyes rolled back in a fit of madness....in a strait jacket carried out of the White house by people from the psycho ward..
..forced to GTF out of our face.
Obama ignored all his generals, and created his own surrender plan.
President Obama urgently looked for a way out of the war in Afghanistan last year, repeatedly pressing his top military advisers for an exit plan that they never gave him, according to secret meeting notes and documents cited in a new book by journalist Bob Woodward.
Frustrated with his military commanders for consistently offering only options that required significantly more troops, Obama finally crafted his own strategy, dictating a classified six-page “terms sheet” that sought to limit U.S. involvement, Woodward reports in “Obama’s Wars,” to be released on Monday.
According to Woodward’s meeting-by-meeting, memo-by-memo account of the 2009 Afghan strategy review, the president avoided talk of victory as he described his objectives.
Woodward's book portrays Obama and the White House as barraged by warnings about the threat of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil and confronted with the difficulty in preventing them. During an interview with Woodward in July, the president said, "We can absorb a terrorist attack. We'll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever . . . we absorbed it and we are stronger."
This decision to deliberately absorb another 9/11/01 level terrorist attack rather than work to prevent it, if true, is an impeachable offense.
There are few things worse than fighting a war that you have no intention of winning. I think that is something we can all agree on.
We’ve all been saying this, but it’s interesting to get outside confirmation. Our troops are being put at risk, and dying at higher rates than they ever did in the Bush years, for no reason at all.
Another problem is lousy rules of engagement, and eagerness to courtmartial any troops who actually try to defend themselves. But for a thousand years, Just War theory has taught this absolutely basic rule: DO NOT FIGHT A WAR UNLESS YOU INTEND TO WIN IT.
THIS MAN IS EVIL. Pure and simple.