Posted on 06/14/2016 7:30:34 PM PDT by jazusamo
More than a year since the Obama administration officially ended American combat operations in Afghanistan, the White House’s newly minted battle plan for the country effectively restarts the combat mission for the 9,800 U.S. service members still in the country.
White House officials have given the administration’s tacit approval to allow U.S. commanders in Afghanistan to conduct offensive airstrikes against the Taliban and other insurgent groups and to let American troops restart joint ground operations with Afghan forces.
The changes were based on the findings of a three-month review of the situation in Afghanistan, which was overseen by Gen. John Nicholson, the top U.S. commander there, and submitted to Pentagon and White House officials this month.
Before the changes made at Gen. Nicholson’s behest, American air power was authorized only when U.S. forces were under direct threat and American combat missions in the country were limited to special operations teams.
The shift in the White House strategy was a clear recognition that “what is on the ground right now just isn’t working,” said Rick Nelson, a senior counterterrorism analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
President Obama pledged to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan when he announced in 2007 that he was seeking the White House. That campaign promise led to accusations that he was making war decisions based on domestic politics without regard to the situations on the ground.
Mr. Nelson said the White House “has been really bad about changing military tactics” in Afghanistan, pressing ahead with plans to withdraw all U.S. forces from the country by 2017.
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A Battle Plan drawn up by Obama and His Admin will be a disaster
What the hell is the point. We should have been out of there years ago, after Tora Bora.
Obama has been in Afghanistan longer than Bush
Somebody else muscling in on the heroin trade?
How strategic to restart the war (and widen the appeal to jihadis streaming back to Afghanistan) after drawing down under 10,000 forces .....
It’s not just Han Solo who would have a bad feeing about this
Great. Zero could screw up a two car funeral.
So he ends it...brings them here.....restarts it.....jihadis go ape$hit on oir own soil. Do I have it rigbt?
Correct. After the punitive expedition phase, before the nation-building, meals on wheels phase.
Afghanistan will never be a civilized nation.
The Afghanis are totally tribal, still war-like and have been at war with each other since the beginning of time. They fight over water, land, women and tribal honor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan
I’d say yes, you’re right on the mark.
Why? What on earth are we even still doing there spending brave American lives and money we can’t afford?
Obama is convinced that whatever he does can be denied and the media will cover for him. His contempt for the American people is bottomless.
World peace 1.20.09.
What? He’s trying to get a lot of our patriotic military out of the country before he and hillary start their conflagration this summer so they can’t protect us from the hundreds of thousands of illegals he’s been sneaking into the country?
Not that i’m jaded or anything.
Out of the country? They aren’t allowed to be armed in country. I’m surprised there have not been more attacks on our military here.
What a mess.
Who are we supporting this time?
It used to have a university and theaters, schools for women, formal police, and so on, when it was under a king. Soviet-backed communists screwed that up by working with radicals to overthrow the King.
Nor do they want to be. Eff ‘em and send their ‘citizens home’.
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