Posted on 11/11/2009 6:49:01 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing instead for revisions to clarify how and when U.S. troops would turn over responsibility to the Afghan government, a senior administration official said Wednesday.
Obama is still close to announcing his revamped war strategy most likely shortly after he returns from a trip to Asia that ends on Nov. 19.
But the president raised questions at a war council meeting Wednesday that could alter the dynamic of both how many additional troops are sent to Afghanistan and what the timeline would be for their presence in the war zone, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss Obama's thinking.
The president is considering options that include adding 30,000 or more U.S. forces to take on the Taliban in key areas of Afghanistan, and to buy time for the Afghan government's small and ill-equipped fighting forces to take over. The other three options on the table are ranges of troop increases, from a relatively small addition of forces to the roughly 40,000 that the top U.S. general in Afghanistan prefers, according to military and other officials.
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For Obama it is the only option!
Ping
PULL THEM OUT. They don’t need to be risking their lives under his disasterous watch.
Hunker down and get ready for the worst..he is hell bent on destroying America.
He has no plan that HE can PUBLICLY support.
He’s just HFG.
Human F’ng Garbage.
Barack Hasan Obama is such a drama queen!
Above your pay grade, you LOSER!?
The rest of the world laughs, Barry.
They laugh.
He’s been “mulling” for months now. Pretty soon he’s going to morph into that Greek statue of that guy thinking, with stone drool oozing out the corner of his mouth.
DumBO is too stupid to raise the toilet seat yet a question. Who really ask the question?
Waaayyyy over his head.
“A Dither, A Dather, tell us about your Father ...”
Sing it again ...
Every time I see something like this that is exactly what crosses my mind. To think these idiots put this guy in charge when he never made a decision in the Senate is what is so ridiculous, and now our soldiers suffer.
John Bolton speaking about this on Greta now.
Bolton says obama’s indecisiveness could lead to the fall of the government in Pakistan.
Oh, goody./s
As if he needed to give me more reasons to vomit over him.
Here is 0bama's "war strategy" - taken directly from the pages of the French Military:
There appear to be a few FReepers who support the surrender option as well.
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