Posted on 09/16/2009 11:59:43 AM PDT by bestintxas
President Obama said Wednesday there will be no quick decision on whether to send more U.S. troops into wartorn Afghanistan, saying "my determination is to get this right."
The U.S. and NATO commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, delivered a grim assessment of the war to Washington last month and is expected to follow up soon with a request for thousands of additional troops and more equipment.
That would leave Obama to decide whether to expand a war polls say is rapidly losing public support and drawing increasingly pointed criticism from lawmakers in Obama's Democratic Party.
The president already has roughly doubled the size of the American military force in Afghanistan, with only limited gains to show for it.
Speaking to reporters Wednesday after meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in the Oval Office, Obama promised a deliberative process on how to proceed, not just on the military front but in the civilian and diplomatic arenas as well.
He said he must consult widely before deciding, with foreign leaders as well as U.S. generals, aides and officials. Obama said there is no "immediate decision pending."
Asked whether the U.S. and its allies are winning the war, he didn't answer. Obama did say, though, that it was clear the war he inherited from former President George W. Bush lacked a clear strategy to defeat the Al Qaeda terrorist network.
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Shameful.
He’s voting “present”.
He has as much chance of getting it right as Jeremiah Wright or ACORN people do.
Let’s all get together and mail him Magic 8 balls. The one he’s using now appears to be very indecisive.
“That would leave Obama to decide whether to expand a war polls say is rapidly losing public support and drawing increasingly pointed criticism from lawmakers in Obama’s Democratic Party.”
Leaving our troops floundering while the ‘bama ponders what would be most politically expedient. OBAMA IS LIVING UP TO ALL OF THE FALSE ACCUSATIONS AGAINST GEORGE BUSH-AND MORE!!
Our military cannot function with the impossible ROEs they now have to operate under. I called my Congressman and Senators yesterday morning about that, saying it is criminal, and that four brave Marines were slaughtered last week becasue air and artillery support was denied them due to fear of civilian casualties due to the new ROE.
Obama has NO intention of winning this war in Afghanistan. This is all political theater, with our military being used as pawns.
We need to declare victory and get the hell out.
Iraq is far more strategic in the scheme of things.It’s terrain is flat and sutiable for military operations. Afghanistan is a backward tribal mountainous hellhole, and will be the same for the new few centuries. Leave them be.
If Al Qaeda comes back, send the BUFFs over and eliminate them from 35,000 feet with extreme prejudice. That goes for Pakistan too.
What has emboldened our enemies is that we hamstring our military and try to fight nice. They don’t respect that kind of weakness—it only encourages them. They only respect destruction on a large scale akin to what we visited upon Japan in 1945. That changed their tune in a hurry.
We will soon be drawn into a war of attrition, with death by a thousand cuts there, if we send even more troops in.
Bush should have prosecuted this war, and action against North Korea in the seven years he had to do so. He barely won Iraq.
Wars cannot be fought in a politically correct manner. Do the job, and get out.
We are still in South Korea after 59 years, Western Europe for 65 years, Japan for 64 years, Bosnia for 14 years, Kosovo for 10 years, Kuwait for 18 years, Afghanistan for 8 years and Iraq for 6 years.
And we can’t even put the military on our own Southern border to protect Americans from the drug wars and the invasion of illegals.
We don’t even know who we are fighting in Afghanstan now.Tribes fight over anything and we are getting sucked deeper into that vortex. Plus in eight years we could not even stop poppy growing which fuels the worldwide heroin trade. If we wanted that outcome, we would have achieved it already.
Fighting house to house in Afghanistan? The heck with that. We made that mistake in the second battle of Fallujah and lost 51 Marines when we should have levelled the place.
It is time to go. This is turning rapidly into another Vietnam, and that can never be allowed to happen again to our military.
I’m no noob, and the asbestos suit is on. I’ve lived long enough to see that history is repeating itself, and the outcome will be just as disastrous.
ZerO is killing kids for politics.
No blood for politics!
above his pay grade.
I'm sensing racism here...I mean if it's racist to oppose Obamiecare and/or to truthfully call the president a liar for actually lying, then I'm thinking sending him a “black” magic 8 ball is also racist.
We should consider sending Magic 4 balls which are purple, and shouldn't offend anybody outside of the Grimace and Barney the dinosaur. We could use 12 balls, they are also purple, but 12 is too big a number for liberals to comprehend, so the 4 ball is probably the better choice.
You make an excellent point. I am apalled that I did not see the overt racism in my suggestion to send a Magic 8 ball. I must enroll in sensitivity training immediately.
Purple it is.
It's not really your fault, according to Newsweek you were born racist. So you really didn't know any better. It wasn't until you began to oppose Obama’s Marxist policies that you would have become aware of this. While you might think your opposing his Marxism on principle, you're really just against Obama because he's black. The State Run Media has confirmed this also, and they are the arbiters of what is true....
Now go home and say 3 Hail Obamas and don't pay your mortgage for 3 months. If you are forgiven Obama will bless you with the Hopeychangey Spirit and pay yo mortgage for youz.
Exactly. Let's bring the troops home from Obama's wars. We can't afford it anymore. Conservatives need to stop giving him a blank check.
“It’s not really your fault, according to Newsweek you were born racist.”
Actually, from the article http://www.newsweek.com/id/214989
one must be six months old to be racist. That’s plenty of time to learn how bad you are.
Iraq had a capability to inflict harm on us and Israel. Contrary to the MSM.
Afghanistan does not.
It’s obvious bin Laden is no longer in the county.
Why fight against a bunch of tribes that have no strategic ability?
Pull out.
And did we all call the President and Our Representatives and tell them YES send more troops, since that is was is being requested? I did.
You can’t look “cool” if you appear to care about little things like our military requesting support...
You can’t vote ‘present’ now, 0boner.
No flames here. Everything you said is true AFAIC.
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