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Posted on 11/08/2009 5:48:05 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
It’s been three months since General Stanley McChrystal informed the Obama administration of the resources he needs to successfully prosecute the war. The controversy over the elections in Afghanistan have been resolved for a week now, which supposedly kept Barack Obama from making a decision on whether to give McChrystal more troops and the number that will be sent. This morning, McClatchy reports on an apparent trial balloon coming from the White House that Obama will split the difference between McChrystal’s medium- and high-risk options for troop support of a counterinsurgency strategy — but still won’t make a decision until after Obama takes a tour of Asia later this month:
President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year, but he may not announce it until after he consults with key allies and completes a trip to Asia later this month, administration and military officials have told McClatchy.
As it now stands, the administration’s plan calls for sending three Army brigades from the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky. and the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, N.Y. and a Marine brigade, for a total of as many as 23,000 additional combat and support troops.
Another 7,000 troops would man and support a new division headquarters for the international force’s Regional Command (RC) South in Kandahar, the Taliban birthplace where the U.S. is due to take command in 2010. Some 4,000 additional U.S. trainers are likely to be sent as well, the officials said. …
It splits the difference between two other McChrystal options: a “high-risk” one that called for 20,000 additional troops and a “medium-risk” one that would add 40,000 to 45,000 troops.
The officials, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss internal administration planning, cautioned that Obama’s decision isn’t final, and won’t be until after administration officials discuss it with the NATO allies at a Nov. 23 meeting of the alliance’s North Atlantic Council and its Military Committee.
Obama is touring Asia for economic and security reasons. He leaves Wednesday, but he’s already off to a bad start, as China has begun retaliating against Obama for his “protectionist” policies:
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Why doesn't he just declare victory for islam and be done with it?
Better than the 20k I thought he would do, but still he will never give the military what they ask for. It’s an ego thing. “I know better than you do.”
He said he was going to end the war!
Will they be allowed to take weapons or is he afraid they’ll jump to conclusions and act stupidly?
Some pithy comments at Hot Air on this one.
In what way and to who's favor? (I don't watch television, so I rely on FR to keep me informed.)
Have the Taliban fully recouped and rearmed? We can wait longer if they are not ready.
This guy is an idiot. Instead of being proactive, he lets it be known that troops levels will have a direct correlation to the Afphan elections. Then his admiinstration acts surprised when the elections don’t go so smoothly.
Everyone knows that he has delayed his decision for US elections. He’s still trying to find a way to play both sides of the issue. In the end, the troops and the country suffers.
Liberals are such fools...well let’s just get a little pregnant darlin’ Fools all of them, the Risk for death of our troops goes down with the increase in troop strength...
High Risk...20,000 Medium Risk 40,000 Low Risk 100,000...send the Low Risk troops level and win this thing and become a Hero O-man
obama said the troops would return home within one year.
Now that's decisiveness.
So he gave them (Taliban) a deadline that they can wait and plan for? Brilliant. (not)
The Peace Man is going to send more killers to Afghanistan?
Inconceivable!
Obama is a devoted communist who wants to bring about the destruction of America. He has to keep a patina of respectible effort pasted over his plans.
I am not given to hyperbole.
When I hear a General in the Army of the United States say that diversity is our strength and that not having diversity in the Armed Forces would be a worse tragedy than what happened at Fort Hood, I get very worried.
Oh my, KOS, DU and Code Pinkos will NOT be happy.
As a muslim, Obama is as conflicted as Hassan about sending more US soliders to fight against his muslim “brothers”.
“Obama may make decision to send 34K more troops to Af-Pak soon”
Then again, he may not.
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