U.S. to shift from Afghanistan to Pakistan?

MSNBC ^ | September 21, 2009 | AP

[John W]

WASHINGTON - The White House is considering expanding counterterror operations in Pakistan to refocus on eliminating al-Qaida instead of mounting a major military escalation in Afghanistan, two senior administration officials said Monday.

Earlier in the day, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan reported to Obama that without more troops, the U.S. risks failure in a war it's been waging since September 2001.

The senior administration officials said the renewed fight against the terrorist organization could lead to more missile attacks on Pakistan terrorist havens by unmanned U.S. spy planes. They spoke on condition of anonymity because no decisions have been made.

[HospiceNurse]

In other words, we are surrendering in Afghanistan.

[Bean Counter]

That’s not what General McCrystal recommended, is it??

I cannot imagine that the Pakistanis would sit still for that strategery either. This makes no sense if true, and will not end well.

[SMCC1]

Why wouldn’t they ALREADY be employing the spy planes to knock out terrorist havens as much as necessary?

[John W]

I’m never sure with this crew and the narcissist-in-chief whether its another amateur hour episode or willful treason.

[BARLF]

Why wouldn’t they ALREADY be employing the spy planes to knock out terrorist havens as much as necessary?

The obama regime doesn't want to kill their buddys.

[married21]

Is this another attempt to do war on the cheap? We hit a few Al-Qaeda people, say that they were the ones we really wanted, declare victory, and go home?

I wouldn’t bet that it will work out that way.

[Billthedrill]

MSNBC shilling for the boss. Although "no plan has been announced yet," they're equating ground troops with Russia's effort and applauding 0bama's "new" approach.

It all seems vaguely familiar, doesn't it? Yeah, we used the all-air strategy to close the Ho Chi Minh Trail and pound the Viet Cong into submission as I recall. Took their sanctuary right away from, didn't we? Well, no, we didn't.

This is warfare on the cheap, a no-risk attempt to look like he's doing something without taking any responsibility for actually changing anything. He's second-guessing his commander in the field. He's micro-managing the war. Robert McNamara is chuckling, wherever he is.

[spikeytx86]

So in other words we are abandoning our allies in Afghanistan to be slaughtered by the Taliban, again, so that we can mount some token operations in the Pakistani Frontier in which we will halt the minute Pakistan protests.

Hope and Change indeed.

[LibLieSlayer]

Hey hussein... are you going to pull the worst possible scenario and INVADE PAKISTAN... you pos muzzie traitor... obammy... you are the devil incarnate.

LLS

[Wuli]

We’ve been chasing out of Afghanistan, so they took refuge in Pakistan.

Now, we are going to shift priorities away from Afganistan to Pakistan, with our direct involvement there.

I can see two unintended consequences.

“Public” reaction inside Pakistan, against a greater direct U.S. involvement there, from a large number and a variety of population segments will destabilize Pakistan and make the border region with Afghanistan even more chaotic and unresolved than it is now.

We may actually produce, by our efforts, a situation where we have to actually “save” some existing government in Pakistan from civil war; a civil war that our policy may help invoke.

Obama is soooooo naive.