Posted on 10/04/2009 9:34:13 AM PDT by SkyPilot
WASHINGTON (AFP) By openly declaring their views on the Afghan war, US military leaders have placed President Barack Obama in a bind as he faces a fraught decision over the troubled US-led mission.
Obama has refused to quickly approve a request from his commanders for a major troop build-up in Afghanistan, insisting first on a full vetting of the current strategy.
But while a war council takes place behind closed doors at the White House, top military officers have made no secret of their view that without a vast ground force, the Afghan mission could end in failure.
"They want to make sure people know what they asked for if things go wrong," Lawrence Korb, a former assistant secretary of defense, told AFP.
As a result, if Obama chooses to change course in Afghanistan or decline a request for large numbers of troops, he will be rejecting the advice of the US military, raising the political stakes.
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White House tour Guide is above his pay grade.
Send in Oprah!
“Awesome. Now all the pressure that they heaped on Bush, who couldnt afford a failure on Afghanistan either, has landed square on Obamas skinny shoulders.”
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Maaann, them shore be some skinny shoulders too! According to what I have seen published he is nearly my height and weighs about the same as I weighed at my high school graduation. I was called a stringbean in boot camp and even when I was 21 I was told I had a bad case of the “goneass”. He doesn’t look that skinny in the pictures shown of him at a young age and sometimes the face looks different to me and I mean in ways other than just the changes that twenty or thirty years bring. Is this guy in the white house the same one in the pictures from way back when? I am just a tiny bit unsure myself.
“Barry campaigned on winning in Afghanistan by increasing the force and finding Osama Bin Laden. Hes so far failed on both counts.
And the man who could never make a decision as a state legislator still cant make one as president.”
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After all the times we were told by Obama and the media what an idiot George Bush was Hussein is going to wind up making Bush look like the greatest genius the world has ever produced.
Somehow, having Valerie Jarrett, Mayor Daley's Olympic bid former co-chairmen, doing the vetting of the military request doesn't seem quite as expert--or awash in gravitas--as it seemed to be just last Friday morning.
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Gee. I wonder if these commentators on the left would have had this much concern about the military keeping its advice private if President Bush were still at the helm????
NOT!!!
8 more KIA today Barry................
so he didn’t need strategy until now?
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm is something those two should be saying with hands clasped, kneeling bed side every night.
Its treasonous and cynical, but you watch..thats is what they are planning.”
If true, I suggest honorable and courageous Generals start screaming bloody murder about the changes in the ROE and explain how Obama’s changes are inflicting defeat upon the USA.
We’ll probably pull the troops out. President Obama will order us to pull the troops out probably around ‘11 just in time for total withdrawal by the election season in ‘12.
I totally agree with your assessment.
It still makes Obozo a big loser. We only want the troops out because he is too inept and self absorbed to run a winning strategy.
What a mess.
Message to Jame Jones: you are a traitor sacrificing the Marines fighting in Afghanistan! You are no more than a Pierrot that makes Marines no more than a joke! You are a jerk and a wimp that does not even have guts to send in more troops for Afghanistan, to save the lives of Marines under risk, those that are wearing the same uniform as you did. In Marine Standards, you are a big fat loser! You’ve put mud on the public image of Marines!
Obama has yet to publish a National Security Strategy as required by Goldwater/Nichols. The US Military is rudderless all over, not just in Afghanistan.
actually the acronym is"POS;" you've clearly mi-spelled it... You can thank me later ;)
agggggg I dropped the s....
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