Posted on 09/07/2009 12:00:28 PM PDT by Saije
Gen. Stanley McChrystal's report on the situation in Afghanistan is likely to strain relations between the Obama administration and the uniformed military. The arrival of McChrystal's report in Washington is likely to spark its own low-level war of finger-pointing and blame-shifting between civilian policymakers in the White House and McChrystal's staff and defenders in the Pentagon. This strain in civil-military relations could last through the duration of the U.S. military's involvement in Afghanistan and beyond. McChrystal's report is supposedly secret, but anonymous staffers have already revealed its themes to the Washington Post. The goal of these staffers is to protect McChrystal and the uniformed military against White House officials they likely don't trust. These staffers have evidently concluded that they need to leak first in order to establish their position and put White House staffers on the defensive.
The first task for McChrystal's report (and its leaking defenders) was to show how President Barack Obama's supposedly limited war aims actually result in broad, expensive, and open-ended goals for Afghanistan:
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The White Hut is filled with Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood (Saudis0 supporters.
Our military needs to be VERY concerned that intel is being leaked back to Al Qeada and the Taliban - intel which is being used to kill our troops.
We need to pull all National Guard out of Afganistan and bring them home to protect our own country. My feeling is that the Guard will not come home until Obama gets his civilian army up and running. What’s the objective in Afganistan? What’s the end game? Nobody knows. We’ll just continue to get our kids killed for no reason. Afgans don’t care. They are so backwards it would take 100 years to change them. When we do decide to pull out, nothing will have changed. Might as well pull out now.
You said it before I could. And, don’t forget who the last person was to succeessfully pacify that cesspool, that’s right, Ghengis Khan. His solution was very simple, just kill everyone that you can find.
LOL.
If you delete this paranoid sentence, the remainder of your statement has merit.
You have to ask yourself what side are these people on and what do they want.
Or Da White Crib.
That’s what happens when you elect a Muslim into the white house.
My feeling is that the Guard will not come home until Obama gets his civilian army up and running.”
If you delete this paranoid sentence, the remainder of your statement has merit.
I have been saying this for weeks to my friends.GuessI am parnoid also.
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My feeling is that the Guard will not come home until Obama gets his civilian army up and running.”
If you delete this paranoid sentence, the remainder of your statement has merit.
I have been saying this for weeks to my friends.GuessI am parnoid also.
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you say “If you delete this paranoid sentence, the remainder of your statement has merit.”
explain to us what this means and why a private and unconstitutional army within the US - “Just as strong, just as powerful, just as well funded as our military..” [remember, we have 3 million in our military spread over the globe] is needed. That would be an average of 60,000 per state. Who will their target be?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2yGzHfy7s
We did our jobs in Iraq and Afghanistan. We've been there for seven years now. How much longer should we stay there? I'm not in favor of an immediate pullout, but we need to do what Nixon did after Vietnam.
Afghanistan is the arm-pit of the world. These people do not want democracy they have a 3rd century mentality. All troops should come home by the end of 2010, IMO.
Bump
Obama, himself, may not even be a natural born citizen, and there are some who doubt that he is even a citizen.
Why aren't the highest military officers doing anything about this? Are the careers and retirement more important than the lives of their men?
I cannot comprehend your question. Consequently, I cannot respond to it.
It is a distinct possibility. BTW, spell check is your friend.
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