Posted on 11/11/2009 10:17:48 PM PST by EagleUSA
WASHINGTON -- 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.
That stance comes in the midst of forceful reservations about a possible troop buildup from the U.S. ambassador in Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry, according to a second top administration official.
In strongly worded classified cables to Washington, Eikenberry said he had misgivings about sending in new troops while there are still so many questions about the leadership of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
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.
Military officials said Obama has asked for a rewrite before and resisted what one official called a one-way highway toward war commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal's recommendations for more troops. The sense that he was being rushed and railroaded has stiffened Obama's resolve to seek information and options beyond military planning, officials said, though a substantial troop increase is still likely.
The president was 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 Wednesday were ranges of troop increases....
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I feel sick to my stomach thinking all of the blood, sweat, and tears invested in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts was wasted by and ingnorant electorate.
I dont usually say things like this but I hope the next building that falls because of Islamic terrorism either wakes you up or lands on your head.
Were you sleeping on 9/11? When you awoke did you watch replays of any of your fellow Americans jumping out of the Towers?
And since you feel the way you do I hope you voted for Obama as he is gonna try to give you what you think you want...of course he will fuck it up but I doubt if you will notice
All is good, sir. Goodnight, and God Bless you.
If we leave, the Taliban takes over and they resume course. If we stay, Obama gets them all killed.
No way Obama uses nukes.
Lose-Lose.
Only solution..get RID of ZERO. This is the only option that is not actually on the table..but should be! He is getting Marines killed with his incompetent boobery.
the whole of southwest Asia is rotten.
the neighboring countries to Afghanistan are rotten.
with a lot of effort and money,
we can impose some order on a small area.
so what?
it all falls down when the US exits.
I’m sure I’m not alone in thinking the Iraqis aren’t worthy of our soldier’s blood judging from their lack of willpower and stamina. But as one green beret said once..we can go over there or they can come over here. Its going to be one or the other.
“The man is a non-stop freak show...”
Correct. He wasn’t born, but hatched. Hence, no b.c.
Do some math ...9 Jihadists killed over 3000 Americans and cost the US I dont know how many billions of $ ...How many Jihadists have we killed in these wars? enough to keep you safe and warm for the rest of your life
once we leave we are will have to go back when they hit us again and we have a real president.
keep in mind, that the original reason for the
Afghanistan mission was something like,
the Taliban knows where OBL is, but the best deal we can get
is for the Taliban to send OBL to a third ‘supposedly neutral’ country. Bush didn’t want that.
so we get a open ended, no end in sight, nation-building-effort, results to date, a gov’t that would last a day if the US left
do you really want that?
He's out of the closet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCAffMSWSzY&feature=player_embedded
There is no way to turn over security to Afghanistan.”
Our troops will never pacify Afghanistan or Iraq.
They will just keep getting killed.
If you want to trash current war effort blame it on the current UnDecider In Chief and his cohorts who have anything but an intelligent foreign policy.
Imagine the bamster in a cardigan plus his “mom jeans”
woooooooooo hooooooooooo roflmao
So we run and let the lives of those who we lost, not only there but also on 911, be in vain? Chickenshiite views like that will only have them (whoops, they’re already here) at our doors sooner than you know.
The logic of the worry of a muslim fighting a muslim is the biggest line of crap I have ever heard. Just another excuse of the morally and testacular challenged wussies who are running our country to justify another cut and run VietNam fiasco.
General Patton was not in any theatre with the intent to pacify anyone. That is exactly the same command philosophy we need to be adhering to in this and other conflicts in the region. Go in, kick ass and continue to do so and make sure the UN stays the hell out or address them the same way we did collateral damage in WWII. (Did I mention to cancel the lease at Turtle Bay and hand the payment book the General Secretary at the outbound gate at JFK)
Screw the pacification crap. Beat them until they come begging on their knees to stop and summarily execute anyone who tries anything stupid. They can’t scream Alah Achbar with a new eye socket in the forhead and it greatly minimizes and possibilities for another Abu Grahib media circus.
There will be consequences, for all of us.
Thanks to the stupid bastards that voted for this usurper, we are emboldening our enemies.
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