Posted on 11/01/2009 7:20:58 PM PST by kristinn
The Obama administration is considering an almost complete surrender in Afghanistan, if the report this weekend by the BBC's Katty Kay is accurate.
Speaking as a panelist on the Chris Matthews Show, a weekend public affairs broadcast, Kay reported on the internal debate at the White House, "There are real questions being asked, I think, about whether even with a big injection of troops this is a real country, a real war that you can win.
"And there's a new phrase which is floating around the White House which is 'minimum security'. That we're not actually aiming for a country which is stable that we are in control of, but we are aiming for a minimum amount of security and perhaps even a negotiated settlement with the Taliban."
This would tie in with reports that Obama has concluded the U.S. cannot beat the Taliban and that he has requested new studies this week, one of each province to determine which ones may be ceded to the Taliban and another for troop levels other than those requested by Gen. McChrystal over two months ago.
Kay's remarks start at the 19:10 minute in the backward clock on the video. She describes three different views on the situation in Afghanistan that have been presented to Obama: The military needs a large injection of troops to perform the current strategy; even with more troops Afghanistan will never be winnable; and "'we have no choice but to win this war' and that is what President Obama said back in March."
Obama has delayed making his decision such that it most likely will not be announced until the end of November, three months into the twelve month window left to win the war Gen. McChrystal stated in August.
Troop casualties in Afghanistan have skyrocketed in the past three months with over 1000 being wounded, and a reported 58 service members killed this past month making it the deadlist month of the eight-year long war.
On Friday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs bragged Obama has spent almost twenty hours in meetings on Afghanistan since August.
“Minimum security” translates to:
In the next three years, don’t spend a lot of time in American skyscrapers, or in large American cities at all, if you know what I mean.
All the soldiers who have died fighting terrorism have died in vain.
Have a nice day and keep voting Democrat! :D
Has Obama forgotten what happened last time when the Taliban controlled Afganistan?
I don't think he has.
If there’s an America years from now.
It’s the old “give Hitler the Sudetenland” strategy.
“When Obama is presented with the identical situation, he chooses to lose the war. “
iraq and afgh. are not identical countries or situations.
So after all this time he spent “in deep thought”, trying to come up with a plan on how to proceed in Afghanistan, his decision is to “CUT & RUN”???
Rush Limbaugh was right. Obama is “in over his head”!
Elections have consequences.
And just think: Obama’s reversal of eight years of progress against the Taliban is just the beginning of his legacy.
Amen to that, Jet Jaguar.
We can beat them into the dust. We can turn Afghanistan into a nuclear wasteland. We can depopulate the entire country and take out Pahhhhkeeeeestahhhhhn with it. But we can't see his birth certificate. My neighbors elected this fraud. They are to blame.
Thanks for the ping!
There’s millions of’em, you’ve made a damn scary post in #32. Unfortunately, I think you may be right...
Hitler had an army. Hitler had a mighty manufacturing base. Hitler had a sophisticated gentry. Hitler had banks, metal, oil , gun powder, scientists, technology, etc. Afghanistan has towels and goats and sand... Why, oh why is Obama selling us down the drain? Simple. He's in WAY over his affirmative action head...
GOD HELP US
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Prepare. Time is running out.
Exactly. If we had gone all Hiroshima on them on Sept.12, 2001...we wouldn’t be having this discussion right now.
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