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Officials: Obama advisers are downplaying Afghan dangers (MUST READ)
McClatchy vai Yahoo ^ | Oct 11, 2009 | By Jonathan S. Landay, John Walcott and Nancy A. Youssef,

Posted on 10/11/2009 7:54:30 PM PDT by VRWCTexan

One phrase that always comes up in the administration's (AFGAN) strategy sessions is "PUBLIC OPTION," one participant told McClatchy .

White House officials are minimizing warnings from the intelligence community, the military and the State Department about the risks of adopting a limited strategy focused on al Qaida , U.S. intelligence, diplomatic and military officials told McClatchy

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afgan; nationalsecurityfail; nsp; nss; obama
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1 posted on 10/11/2009 7:54:30 PM PDT by VRWCTexan
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To: VRWCTexan
However, the officials said, in their effort to muster domestic support for a more limited counterterrorism strategy that would concentrate on disrupting and dismantling al Qaida , White House officials are neglecting warnings from their own experts about the dangers of a more modest approach.
2 posted on 10/11/2009 7:56:33 PM PDT by VRWCTexan (Obama-scare is the "real" Cash for Clunker Program!)
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To: VRWCTexan

Fight to win.


3 posted on 10/11/2009 7:59:35 PM PDT by victim soul
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To: VRWCTexan

I don’t think it’s a must read. It’s just another set of opinions to further cloud what is exaclty going on.


4 posted on 10/11/2009 8:05:54 PM PDT by Ajnin
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To: victim soul

Never send a Lawyer(s) to do a mans work.


5 posted on 10/11/2009 8:11:22 PM PDT by stubernx98 (cranky, but reasonable)
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To: Ajnin
Certainly that is your opinion -

... mine is that it is the first time in (so called) MSM print that it's been openly admitted the Afgan policy decision is directly driven by obama’s vote counting for the “public option”

Sorry that I wasted your time....

6 posted on 10/11/2009 8:16:31 PM PDT by VRWCTexan (Obama-scare is the "real" Cash for Clunker Program!)
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To: stubernx98
Never send a Lawyer(s) to do a mans work.

Real men do not pick other men's pockets.

7 posted on 10/11/2009 8:16:47 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: VRWCTexan
"...the decade or so it would need to work, if it would work."

"The Indo-Pakistan issue looms like a dark cloud on the horizon...."

8 posted on 10/11/2009 8:19:43 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: VRWCTexan; Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; ...

The list, ping


9 posted on 10/11/2009 8:20:32 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Ben Ficklin

Agreed - and we are laid bare for at least 3 years and 3 months to the possible outcomes as obama will wimp out when the chips are down.


10 posted on 10/11/2009 8:22:53 PM PDT by VRWCTexan (Obama-scare is the "real" Cash for Clunker Program!)
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To: VRWCTexan
Agreed? I don't think so.

While you say "Obama will wimp out", I will say that Obama is relying on the Realists such as Gates and Jones, not to mention others such as Scowcroft and Powell.

NATO should turn to the Collective Security Treaty Organization and possibly the Shanghai Cooperation Organization

11 posted on 10/11/2009 8:34:11 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: MestaMachine; 444Flyer

Our military still pushing back on this-— they want their voice heard!

U.S. intelligence, diplomatic and military officials told McClatchy ——

“This administration is minimizing the threat from radical Islam in South and Central Asia , which is much worse today than it was eight years ago, in order to defend a minimalist policy that it’s settling on for domestic political reasons.”

This official said that the White House has been “spoon-feeding distorted information” to a few news organizations in an effort to build public and congressional support for a policy that another U.S. official said “rests on the nonsensical notion that you can separate some of the Taliban from other Taliban , al Qaida and other groups, when in reality those groups are more closely allied today than they’ve ever been.”


12 posted on 10/11/2009 8:36:13 PM PDT by thouworm
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To: Ben Ficklin
“NATO should turn to the Collective Security Treaty Organization and possibly the Shanghai Cooperation Organization “???????????

____________________________

Indeed if that is your personal assessment as to how best to address the global terrorism base known as Afghanistan - then in fact I agree that we “do not agree”

13 posted on 10/11/2009 8:42:01 PM PDT by VRWCTexan (Obama-scare is the "real" Cash for Clunker Program!)
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To: VRWCTexan

Wow. Ubama is worse than just a scumbag. That p.o.s. has blood on his hands.


14 posted on 10/11/2009 8:44:11 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Ben Ficklin
One other key point is the admission that Afgan policy decisions are being driven in the White House largely - if not exclusively - by head count votes for obama-care

.... and thus has almost nothing to do with what will ultimately best protect America from global islamo-terrorism

Again JMHO....

15 posted on 10/11/2009 8:46:15 PM PDT by VRWCTexan (Obama-scare is the "real" Cash for Clunker Program!)
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To: VRWCTexan

I know what the NeoCons want. Send US troops out to do some nation building even if they do get shot up in the process.


16 posted on 10/11/2009 8:51:25 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: thouworm
Agreed - those words jumped out at me as well.

Certainly the top military commanders are not doing this to enhance their own careers - rather they are putting their careers on the line for what they see as a “do or die”

17 posted on 10/11/2009 8:52:54 PM PDT by VRWCTexan (Obama-scare is the "real" Cash for Clunker Program!)
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To: Ben Ficklin
The alternative seems to be retreat to our own shores with a pre- 9-11 mentality, and just wait to be hit again on our own soil...

Certainly having the powerful SCO police Afghanistan will discourage Islam-terrorsts from ever waiting to bring the “great Satan” America to our knees

18 posted on 10/11/2009 8:58:00 PM PDT by VRWCTexan (Obama-scare is the "real" Cash for Clunker Program!)
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To: VRWCTexan

yes; this continuing “dialogue” with the BHO adm is not a career enhancer.

The oath BHO took and the military lives being sacrificed never cross his mind; our military commanders can’t think of anything else but-—their oath and their men.


19 posted on 10/11/2009 9:11:05 PM PDT by thouworm
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To: VRWCTexan

bttt


20 posted on 10/11/2009 9:13:11 PM PDT by kalee (01/20/13 The end of an error.... Obama even worse than Carter.)
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