it'll be winter soon so the boy will put it off any decision till spring...
Posted on 10/14/2009 11:45:20 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
After five intense meetings on his war-fighting strategy in Afghanistan, President Obama is finished gathering data and is now "in the decision-making phase," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told Fox News.
"We have finished at the broad landscape level," Gibbs said. "We are in the decision-making phase now."
Gibbs said exhaustive Situation Room briefings on future U.S. troops levels, training of Afghan Army and Police forces, civilian assistance and the political stability and legitimacy of President Hamid Karzai's government are largely complete.
"The meetings that go now will flow to the decision-making phase," Gibbs said. "All the discussions so far will impact the ultimate decisions."
Gibbs said he had no idea what Obama will decide on future U.S. troop levels, though he repeated his assessment from today's briefing that troop levels will not be cut and the main decision looming is by how much to increase the U.S. combat footprint.
"I don't know how many weeks we are away from a decision," Gibbs said. "I'd say several weeks."
Obama will have at least one more Afghanistan meeting next week. The day has not been set.
Wednesday's meeting, Gibb said, focused intensely on underlying security conditions in Afghanistan and how the U.S. mission going forward would influence the principle goal of securing territory and giving the government the tools necessary to boost internal security, a precursor to any consideration of reducing U.S. forces, which now number about 68,000.
"There were a series of questions on the civilian side, a series of questions on the military side related to training,": Gibbs said, summarizing where Obama was leading the discussion. "There were questions on the political situation and possible increases in civilian resources and ANSF training."
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Man, at this point I just miss "the decider".
He just needed to wait until the vote on the Nobel Peace Prize was over, then let a decent interval pass before he handed down any decision.
Oh, gee. I am glad they took their time and analyzed the situation. Good thing there was nothing pressing going on over there.
Like our men getting killed.
What a dumb ass.
it'll be winter soon so the boy will put it off any decision till spring...
‘The boy is right. Everyone was told that he was a lackey in the Senate; and they voted for him anyway; and that he had no experience in anything; and they voted for him anyway; and he had questionable radical associates and here they are in Washington.
Like a kid always late to class. The generals will ask “Where have you been, Barry?”
Upcoming word of the week for Obama:
BRAINLOCK!
Remember that “Who-do-you-want-getting-the-call-at-3:00-o’clock-in-the-morning?” campaign ad last year?
Between the Somali pirate incident earlier this year and this agonizingly sloooooooow decision making on Afghanistan, I think we are getting our answer on Obama now. (How many more American servicemen and women will die while Barry builds the drama and/or frets over offending his liberal Democrat support base?)
I was thankful that it was George Bush, not Al Gore, on 9/11.
I was thankful that it was George Bush, not John Francois (Kerry), making the critical decisions on Iraq.
The only thing I’ll be thankful for with Barack Hussein Obama is when he is gone...hopefully in 2012.
Now let’s work on getting the Congress back in 2010.
I wonder which union will actually be the one making the decision?
Obama making a decision is such a monumental event that it deserves it's own headline.
We're doomed, aren't we?
Such BS.
Wasn’t the strategy approved when 21K troops went this year.
IMO, he’s sat on the Gen. McChrystal’s request for more troops ALL summer long, say since Memorial Day or so.
Then they consistently badmouth Karzai, even last year in campaign mode when Biden threw a tantrum. And continued sticking knives into him all summer.
The US Congress is criticising others for corruption? Oh, be still, my beating heart, such chutzpah!
And now, via meetings, reviews and general delaying tactics, the entire effort is demoralizing the US military, not to mention the Afghanis who threw in their lot with us, never mind the women and children and ethnic minorities fearful of the Taliban’s Restoriation.
And I doubt we retreat via Pakistan, either. That’s my pipe dream.
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