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Obama Considers Strategy Shift in Afghan War
NYTimes ^ | September 22, 2009 | By PETER BAKER and ELISABETH BUMILLER

Posted on 09/22/2009 8:08:50 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar

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1 posted on 09/22/2009 8:08:50 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Jet Jaguar

The Biden Plan.

Biden our time to ensure defeat.


2 posted on 09/22/2009 8:09:51 PM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: Jet Jaguar
Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.???

What the hell?

3 posted on 09/22/2009 8:10:00 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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To: K-oneTexas

Obama has no policy for Afghanistan.

Obama has yet to publish his National Security Strategy required by Goldwater/Nichols.

It’s no wonder the confusion exists. The State Dept has different goals than the U.S. Military and the CIA and the FBI. The JCOS and the heads of each service are unclear of our policies.

Afghanistan, Honduras, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Brazil, Poland, Czech Republic, Russia, China, ROK, Taiwan, Israel, Japan and Columbia all know there is confusion and no common goal.


4 posted on 09/22/2009 8:10:23 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (A mob of one.)
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To: Texas Eagle

I was wondering about that too.


5 posted on 09/22/2009 8:10:59 PM PDT by TheZMan (Just secede and get it over with. No love lost on either side. Cya.)
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To: Jet Jaguar
including a plan advocated by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to scale back American forces and focus more on rooting out Al Qaeda there and in Pakistan, officials said Tuesday.

Huh? What kind of sense does that make?

6 posted on 09/22/2009 8:11:09 PM PDT by kabar
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To: Texas Eagle

Actually, I didn’t know Chia Plugs had another name.


7 posted on 09/22/2009 8:11:17 PM PDT by Mountain Mary
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To: Jet Jaguar
The sweeping reassessment has been prompted by deteriorating conditions on the ground, the messy and still unsettled outcome of the Afghan elections and a dire report by Mr. Obama’s new commander, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal.


"Who writes this shit?"

8 posted on 09/22/2009 8:13:17 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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Obama Considers Strategy Shift Surrender in Afghan War


9 posted on 09/22/2009 8:13:27 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Never kick leftists when they're down. Wait till they're half way back up. You get better leverage!)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Obama Considers Strategy Shift Surrender So His Islamic Terrorist Friends Can Win Afghan War


10 posted on 09/22/2009 8:14:43 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Never kick leftists when they're down. Wait till they're half way back up. You get better leverage!)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Sounds like a plan to lose at best, retreat at worst.

I don’t like the war in Afghanistan, but losing it would be a disaster....as bad if not worse than losing in Iraq.

If the Taliban gain control of Afghanistan, I’m sure they will eventually take Pakistan. Then we would have a terrorist state armed with nuclear weapons. I think we should at least give the General his troops, get rid of the ridiculous rules of engagement, and get down to the business of breaking things and killing people. Lets win this thing! A bunch of cavemen aren’t better than our armed forces.


11 posted on 09/22/2009 8:16:34 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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a plan advocated by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to scale back American forces and focus more on rooting out Al Qaeda there and in Pakistan,

Gibberish. Its clear why Obama chose Biden; they speak the same language.

12 posted on 09/22/2009 8:19:14 PM PDT by marron
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To: Jet Jaguar

This is Standard SOP for a Democrat Administration.

Confusion and chaos is a way of life. How else to ensure you plan will work.

It’s all they know and the only way they know.

They have no plan (except to destroy the country) and it is replayed with each and every election.

Just a different face at the top.


13 posted on 09/22/2009 8:21:42 PM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: KoRn

No clear policies have been issued in regard to the US Military.

Are we to follow the current policies set forth in 2002, 2006, or something not published?

The National Security Strategy of the United States of America (2002)

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2320.htm

http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/nss.pdf

From 2006

And finally:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/nsc/

Obamas Current Page.


14 posted on 09/22/2009 8:23:53 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (A mob of one.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

On Mar 27 the haloed one with Gates and Clinton at his side announced that strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan had been decided and would be implemented. Now we are told that strategy is under development. What’s been happening the last seven months. (thanks to Charles Krauthammer for revealing this bit of Obama’s verbal gymnastics)


15 posted on 09/22/2009 8:27:41 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: Jet Jaguar

I read awhile back that our military isn’t to engage any targets in Afghanistan if civilians could be killed. Something to that affect anyway.


16 posted on 09/22/2009 8:28:55 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Jet Jaguar

“Uhh...I vote “Not Present” (That doesn’t count against me , right?)


17 posted on 09/22/2009 8:32:25 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck. (Let them eat arugula!))
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To: KoRn

That was from a memo from the White House

He has not published any strategy or official policy in regard to military actions.

He has been in office for 8 months. He is required to publish a National Security Strategy for the United States by the Goldwater Nichols act.

He has had 8 months.


18 posted on 09/22/2009 8:33:49 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (A mob of one.)
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To: Eagles6

Exactly.


19 posted on 09/22/2009 8:34:21 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (A mob of one.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

You can sum up Zero’s National Security Strategy in two words.....

TO LOSE.


20 posted on 09/22/2009 8:36:25 PM PDT by XenaLee
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