Beginning in March!!!????? Another 4 months away?????
Interestingly, if you read the General’s report, completed back in June, he says that if momentum is not regained within the next yr, defeat is a very real likelihood.
Well, now we find out the troops won’t even get there till March(9 months)and it will take a few months to get up and running. So, his yr deadline will have passed.
Also, as reputable an outlet as CBS News reported in October, that he really wanted at least 50K. That the WH convinced him to lower it to 40K and that 40K was his absolute bottom line:
AP) Gen. Stanley McChrystal wanted to ask President Obama for 50,000 more troops for Afghanistan on top of the 68,000 already stationed there, but he was convinced to lower the request to 40,000, reports CBS News White House correspondent Chip Reid.
Sources tell Reid that McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, considers the lower number to be a firm bottom line McChrystal believes “anything short of 40,000” increases the risk of failure, Reid reports.
34,000. Way to go, Mr President.